Fourteen percent of the approximately 600,000 employers using E-Verify are located in Georgia, which ranks highest of all 50 states in the program’s usage, according to new statistics released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). As of April 1, 82,046 employers in the Peach State…

As we shift to the future of work, where organizations are focusing on the reasons why employees want to work versus need to work, it is important to understand employee experience. A lot of organizations historically have focused only on one aspect of organizational change and that is culture.…

A recent paper by Cornell Tech researcher Vitaly Shmatikov and independent researcher Martin Georgiev demonstrated that shortening URLs can have serious privacy consequences. Because shortened URLs are so short, they are vulnerable to brute-force scanning, meaning that attackers can guess multiple…

Sturgill Simpson image courtesy of Atlantic Records I know I’m late to the party but I recently jumped on the Sturgill Simpson bandwagon. I don’t feel all that bad considering that Willie and Waylon didn’t enter my soundtrack until they were well into their Outlaw days of the mid-1970s. All I can…

Sometimes its hard to separate the conservatives from the liberals, especially in a season where populist Donald Trump is running as a Republican and Wall Street bankers are doing their best to put Hillary Clinton in the White House. But this exchange at the U.S. Supreme Court today in Encino…

Apparently ESPN decided it was about time Curt Schilling was on the other side of a Strike Three call. The network fired their controversial baseball analyst for providing offensive commentary on social media following his comments and blog post on the topic of transgender people. “ESPN is an…

The Labor Department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) recently unveiled free online resources and toolkits to help employers improve the accessibility of their web-based job applications for job seekers with disabilities. The resources site is called TalentWorks and was created by the…

(Credit: Shutterstock) Do you have Apple AAPL +0.57% QuickTime installed on your Windows PC? It’s time to remove it. There are known flaws that can be exploited relatively easily, and Apple has confirmed that it is no longer supporting the software. The US-CERT, part of the Department of Homeland…

A previous version of this story misstated Matthew Edman’s role with the government. The story has been corrected. Getty Images Apple’s general counsel, law enforcement officials and outside experts testified at a House of Representatives hearing Tuesday about smartphone encryption. The Federal…

O RLANDO, Fla.—Celinda Appleby, global head of digital recruitment and employer brand for Oracle, affirms what talent acquisition professionals know: “Every recruiter is a marketer." 2016 SHRM Talent Management Conference Complete coverage Photos More information Appleby's session at the Society for…

Catering to one of the world’s largest population of commuters – the New Delhi Metro is to provide a platform for a new intelligent Wi-Fi system, which commuters will soon be able to access for free, through an app. It could signal an incredible leap in how India consumes technology. With an…

Even as Apple Inc. and the U.S. government disagree over how much the company should help investigators extract data from locked iPhones, law enforcement continues to frequently seek Apple’s help. U.S. law enforcement sought information from Apple 4,000 times, covering 16,112 devices, in the second…

Since 1913, Texas had been the only state generally accepted as allowing employers to opt out of the workers’ compensation system. One hundred years later, in 2013, Oklahoma enacted legislation seeking to give its employers the same option. Provisions in the Oklahoma version sought to protect…

The U.S. Department of State toughened its travel alert for Acapulco, a port in the Mexican Pacific coast state of Guerrero which the agency said has been Mexico’s most violent city for the past three years. The new warning, which was issued Friday and replaces the one from January 19, 2016 ,…

O RLANDO, Fla.—To create a great culture, businesses can apply the same methods the rock band U2 uses to create great music, said training and development veteran Jim Knight during a high-energy opening session at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM’s) Talent Management Conference &…

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 17, 2016 10:41 p.m. ET Share Streaming service to be stand-alone option for first time Getty Images Creator/executive producer Jill Soloway attends the Season 2 premiere of…

Call it the power of social media. Cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holding Inc. said Friday it has abandoned a plan to allow texting at select theaters after the proposal was slammed on social media. AMC said in a tweet there will be “NO TEXTING AT AMC,” using capital letters to hammer home the…

Alexis Glick, left, is the CEO of GENYOUth Foundation and Erin Fitzgerald Sexton is senior vice president of global sustainability at the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. Quick: What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think about an innovative field? Let me guess, the first thing…

SunEdison Inc.’s stock plunged in heavy volume Friday, reversing the previous session’s surge, after investors were reminded that the renewable energy company could go bankrupt at any moment. The company disclosed in a filing Friday that it had entered into “confidentiality agreements” last month…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 14, 2016 9:30 p.m. ET Share Investors growing wary of on-demand sector By Cat Zakrzewski San Francisco-based Shuddle Inc., an on-demand ride service for children, said it would…

You don't have to be in managerial role to be a leader. Follow these tips to inspire your colleagues and reap the benefits of a happier workplace.

Home General The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 13, 2016 7:44 p.m. ET Share Tensions between Washington, Silicon Valley may escalate Bloomberg News Califfornia Sen. Dianne Feinstein is circulating a proposal that tech companies won’t like. By Damian…

Employers filed approximately 236,000 petitions for H-1B guestworker visas for fiscal year (FY) 2017, a lower total than some were predicting, but still surpassing last year’s record by 3,000, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). U.S. employers generally use the H-1B visa…

A national nonprofit is partnering with community colleges around the country to develop a retail certification program that prepares primarily low-income students for successful careers in the service industry. Hiring for the service industry can often feel like a numbers game where high turnover…

Facebook Inc. plans to eventually make an augmented reality device so small it might one day resemble a pair of glasses. The company unveiled this Google Glass-like aspiration along with drones, solar-powered planes and bots as part of a 10-year road map for the company on Tuesday. In a nod to the…

The crowded field of salary comparison platforms has a new entry seeking to provide tech candidates with an advantage in compensation negotiations. Paysa is the latest in a series of companies to bring salary data into the mainstream. The company, which launched in February and recently secured $4…

Today, humans cram more data into our brains in a single day than our ancestors did during an entire lifetime. On average, in one day, we view Google 7.2 billion times, send 247 billion emails, and upload 48 hours of video to YouTube each minute (Psy’s “Gangnam Style” is the most watched). The…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 11, 2016 7:05 p.m. ET Share Coalition could ease transit for overseas travelers Getty Images Lyft is teaming up with Didi Kuaidi. By Douglas MacMillan Customers of Chinese…

Most small companies use either a follow-the-leader approach to building their sourcing and recruiting processes or one based on fixing the current problem. However, neither approach works very well since they’re both reactive. With a follow-the-leader approach, you’re too late to make much of a…

The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Daily Mail & General Trust PLC DMGT, +0.34% , whose main interest is Yahoo’s news and media…

Bad spelling can cost you. While 8 in 10 American adults consider themselves good spellers, 7 in 10 say they often find spelling mistakes in written correspondence from others, according to a recent survey of the grammar gripes of more than 2,000 adults by Dictionary.com. When given a list of…

Remember a while back when Netflix was a total bro and let current subscribers keep their lower monthly subscription rate instead of charging the higher rate that new customers received? That’s changing next month. In 2014, Netflix raised the price of its monthly standard streaming plan from $7.99…

John Flavin is executive director of the Chicago Innovation Exchange at the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago has a long history of innovation. Without a doubt, the most powerful and influential innovation that ever came out of the school had nothing and everything to do with a…

The positive hiring trend seen over the last six years is forecast to continue, according to recently released labor market outlooks for the second quarter of the year. CareerBuilder’s Q2 2016 U.S. Job Forecast shows that 34 percent of employers plan to add full-time employees over the next three…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 7, 2016 8:28 p.m. ET Share District attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles claimed customers were misled Getty Images By Douglas MacMillan Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to pay…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services By Published: Apr 6, 2016 9:39 p.m. ET Share More areas in central New Jersey, Los Angeles included AFP/Getty Images By Mike Murphy Editor Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.76% on Wednesday expanded its Prime free same-day delivery service to 11 more metropolitan…