When you think of shopping on eBay, the first things that come to mind are probably second-hand clothes, video games, phones, cameras and other household electronics. What doesn’t spring to mind is a Caribbean island. That is until now, however. Willow Reed, a British pub owner, has listed her…

Analysts see PayPal Holdings Inc. riding a trend in consumer adoption of cashless payments, but it may need to show a big jump in growth for investors to truly believe in the stock. The payments company is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings after the market closes Thursday. Here’s what to…

Technology How Feedback Apps Can Help Improve Employee Retention There are reasons to replace annual satisfaction surveys with a mobile feedback app; chief among them is employee satisfaction. January 24, 2017 by Anastasia Yaskevich Mobile feedback apps can offer different questions for every day of…

Until Tokyo Markets Close Currencies Europe Markets London Markets Home Industries Automobiles The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Jan 23, 2017 10:21 p.m. ET Share Deal with AutoFi aims to make car-buying experience easier Bloomberg News By Peter Rudegeair…

Until Tokyo Markets Open US Market Snapshot Currencies Commodities Home Economy & Politics The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Jan 23, 2017 5:39 p.m. ET Share Republican Pai beings free-market approach, seeks to end many regulations Bloomberg News Ajit Pai,…

Working Well Mindfulness to Help Mothers Stop from Losing Their Mind Mindfulness may be an especially useful tool for mothers returning to work after maternity leave. January 23, 2017 by Mindfulness could aid new mothers returning to work after maternity leave. The concept of mindfulness is already…

U.S. authorities are investigating whether Yahoo Inc.’s two massive data breaches should have been reported sooner to investors, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could prove to be a major test in defining when a company is required to disclose a hack. The Securities and Exchange…

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: A persons finger is posed next to the Whatsapp app logo on an iPhone on August 3, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) When the Guardian published a report on an alleged WhatsApp backdoor last week, it elicited both fear of state surveillance and…

Shutterstock What do firm leaders think will happen to marketing this year? To find out, I turned to CEOs who represent a variety of different industries and companies. Marketers will begin focusing on PR tech: Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, CEO, AirPR We can't talk about MarTech without talking about…

Work in Progress The Salesforce Pitch for Equity, Equality What is the distinction between "diversity" and "equality"? January 21, 2017 by Kris Dunn If you don’t like the answer, you can always change the question. Especially if you have money. Lots of money. There are a lot of companies across…

Dear Moneyologist, This isn’t as earth-shaking as questions from readers’ whose relatives die without wills and other subjects you cover, but it’s a bit of an ethical dilemma for us and I’m sure some other folks have wondered what to do in a similar situation. We often order things from Amazon.com.…

Its lead may have narrowed over the past year, but South Korea still reigns supreme on Bloomberg’s Innovation Index , which ranks world economies using metrics such as R&D spending and the concentration of high-tech companies. South Korea, home to Samsung 005930, -0.75% and Hyundai 005380, +0.66%…

Donald Trump’s presidency was in crisis long before Inauguration Day. Fortunately for Trump, he has Twitter. Trump is politically vulnerable, with historically low approval ratings heading into office. But on Twitter TWTR, -1.87% , he can claim (without evidence) that his ratings are the result of…

With the official Executive Branch accounts on Twitter no longer at his disposal , Barack Obama late Friday had a simple question about his personal account on the social-media platform: ‘Is this thing still on?’ Barack Obama The newly former president’s post went on to term the departing first…

The Practical Employer OSHA Buffers Against Retaliation These examples will help navigate the increasingly complex world of OSHA compliance in 2017. January 20, 2017 by Late in 2016 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new injury-reporting rule took effect. Critically, this new rule…

Employees at LISNR discuss how they will overcome challenges by focusing on the end goal. Founders have a unique vision and a tough job - here's a pep talk to stay motivated. Founding a startup is a tough job. Rejection happens all the time, a constant travel schedule and the future of the company…

Amazon.com has been crowing about its plans to create 100,000 American jobs in the next year, but as with other recent job-creation announcements , that figure is meaningless without context. What Amazon AMZN, +0.19% won’t tell us is that every job created at Amazon destroys one or two or three…

A number of protests have been organized for January 20th, the day President Barack Obama officially passes the torch to President-Elect Donald Trump. While most will take place in public gathering places, at least one will happen on the World Wide Web. Image: Lee Mathews/Forbes A Bay-area software…

Donald Trump’s presidency officially kicks off on Friday, but his odyssey as “tweeter-in-chief” began more than seven years ago, when he — or, more likely, someone in control of his account — launched his very first Twitter salvo. Like any successful business man with a penchant for peacocking,…

Until Tokyo Markets Open US Market Snapshot Currencies Commodities Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Jan 19, 2017 4:54 p.m. ET Share Feds say Uber exaggerated earnings potential, financing options Shutterstock.com…

HR Administration SHRM Announces the Retirement of CEO Hank Jackson Jackson, the Society for Human Resource Management’s sixth president, has made many noteworthy contributions to HR in his tenure. January 19, 2017 by Henry “Hank” Jackson has been leading SHRM since 2010. Credit: SHRM/Chris Williams…

MarketWatch/Getty Images The Rockettes have been told that dancers can opt out of their inauguration performance, and Jennifer Holliday, Paul Anka and Marie Osmond have all said they will not attend. The presidential inauguration of Donald Trump is becoming notable for who won’t be performing and,…