Uber drivers have loudly criticized the company’s low fare policies. But there’s also a lot about their job that corporate American could learn from. While drivers at Uber face many drawbacks such as dealing with members of the public at all times of the day and night, they benefit significantly…

No credit or debit card? No problem. As of this week, you can shop on Amazon.com AMZN, +1.72% without it. The retailer on Monday announced “Amazon Cash,” a new program that allows customers to add money to their online Amazon accounts by purchasing what is essentially an Amazon gift card — even…

Google Inc. accused its former driverless-car executive Anthony Levandowski of quietly developing a competing company for more than three years before he left the internet giant and eventually sold the business to Uber Technologies Inc., according to legal documents released Monday. The documents…

Selfie-hypocrisy or self-deprecation? A large majority of millennials (64%) rated the photo-filter app Instagram FB, -0.25% the world’s most narcissistic social media platform. Instagram received more votes than Facebook (10%), Snapchat (15%) and Twitter (11%) combined, the survey of 3,700 college…

A respectable 61% of investors made money in March, though one of the most buzzed-about IPOs in some time, from Snapchat’s Snap Inc., stung many individual investors, according to Openfolio. Top stocks among investors who were profitable last month were Apple AAPL, -0.19% , Facebook FB, -0.25% ,…

StockSnap IO StockSnap IO American novelist Ken Kesey once said, “To hell with facts! We need stories!” And while social entrepreneurs and their organizations certainly need facts to run their businesses, it’s easy to forget that stories are equally as important: they fuel the passion and…

Some people treat being single like a bad smell that won’t go away — a recipe for a lifetime of misery. And were a person to be so bold as to be happy and single, balancing the two with the kind of aplomb only seen by a unicycle-riding circus juggler, they’d have science to contend with a broad…

Celebrities and fans go together like peanut butter and jelly. And in the age of the intern it’s no surprise that even the wealthiest entrepreneurs are taking advantage of this massive pool of free labor. However, it may not last. Earlier this month, actresses and fashion moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley…

Far from the cause for celebration that an exuberant Wall Street assumes it to be, soaring consumer confidence is a source of concern. And make no mistake; it is soaring. The Conference Board' consumer confidence index jumped to 125.6 in March, from 116.1 in February . That is one of the biggest…

President Donald Trump fires off tweets every few hours, on average. Whether you’re a fan or a detractor, given this particular Twitter account ’s status and capacity to move both markets and public opinion, that can be a lot of must-read tweeting to keep up with. There are websites, though,…

Ted Rall Ted Rall/Cartoon of the Day Under the Obama administration, telecommunications companies were not allowed to collect and sell browser history or other data from smart phones. In a party-line vote, Congress proposed legislation to the Donald Trump administration which reverses those…

Tinder launched a new web version of its app Tuesday, giving online daters yet another platform to swipe through potential partners. The location-based dating app said the new iteration targets users who have limited data and memory on their devices. The service was previously only available only…

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“You have to be very careful when you talk about 'disruption in the context of the NHS, “ says Stephen Bourne. “It's an extremely political and also emotional area.” Bourne is co-founder of Echo , an app-based service created to make it easier for UK National Health Service patients to order repeat…

A wave of banks, mostly underwriters of Snap Inc.’s offering, initiated coverage of the Snapchat parent company Monday and offered a sunnier overall outlook than analysts from banks that were not paid to push the initial public offering. Several of the underwriters based their ratings on…

There’s a very easy way to raise your credit score, and almost no one is trying it. About 89% of credit cardholders who asked their credit card issuer for a higher limit ended up receiving one, new study today from CreditCards.com found. The site surveyed almost 1,000 cardholders. If cardholders are…