New School D&I Leading in the Age of Trump and #BlackLivesMatter Leaders must understand that anxieties are high and many feel threatened by the political rhetoric and what’s at stake. October 25, 2016 by

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Netflix Inc. NFLX, -0.13% Chief Executive Reed Hastings offered his qualified support of AT&T Inc.’s $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner Inc. — as long as the deal doesn’t give an “unfair advantage” to Time Warner’s networks. Hastings said he would back the deal “as long as HBO’s bits and…

So you’ve had it working for someone else. That’s it; never again. Now it’s your time. You are finally going to do what you have always dreamed of – you are going to buy your own business. Great plan and very exciting! So you start scouring the online business for sale listings and after endless…

Transmedia storytelling is a narrative that conveys stories across multiple platforms. This medium is probably not the first thing you’d associate with recruiting – but could it be the future of how you hire? The legacy of recruiting is transactional. A job opens. A job posts. A recruiter sifts…

Home Industries Media The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 24, 2016 6:01 p.m. ET Share Falling ad revenues continue to hurt newspaper industry Getty Images A copy of Gannett Co.’s USA Today is displayed at a newsstand in San Francisco, California. By…

In this picture taken on March 5, 2015, a map of the United States displayed on a computer screen shows cyber attacks in real time at the headquarters of Bitdefender, a leading Romanian cyber security company, in Bucharest, Romania. (AP Photo/Octav Ganea, Mediafax) Cyber thieves are increasingly…

At Whit's End Step Into My (Virtual Reality) Shoes Virtual reality technology may hold the key to reducing implicit bias. October 24, 2016 by

A nurse is seen through a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner in Hong Kong, China. Photographer: Xaume Olleros/Bloomberg Can some of the innovation seen in the West be easily copied and applied in the East? I have personally witnessed a number of healthcare startups in Asia which in some…

I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t all national politics a scam right now? I’m not going to answer that. I’ll leave that up to you. What I’d like to do is direct your attention to the man behind the curtain. You could be led into a scam through fake political calls. Sure, you can get scammed in…

AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. are suiting up for the Great Media Game. Their strategy to win is more about defense than offense. The strongest case for the gargantuan merger is that it is a hedge against a future where the first point of entry for a media consumer might be Netflix NFLX, +3.36% ,…

With the increased importance of data management, data protection, and analytical competency, CEOs are trying a number of different methods to help their firms navigate the challenges. A common approach is to add a new position, such as the Chief Customer Officer or Chief Analytics Officer. A new…

Home Economy & Politics Key Words Get email alerts Published: Oct 22, 2016 5:19 p.m. ET Share MarketWatch/CNN Reports emerged after midday Saturday that there’d been a breakthrough in deal talks between AT&T T, -3.00% and Time Warner TWX, +7.82% , and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump…

Image: Shutterstock Barely a month since Brian Krebs’ website was temporarily knocked offline by an — at the time — historically large Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack another, even larger, DDoS attack has caused havoc with websites all day. This latest attack has targeted DNS provider…

Those that follow the business press continue to be underwhelmed with the U.S. economic recovery. The most recent job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics left a lot to be desired. I no longer pay any attention to the ‘unemployment rate’ because it is a misleading indicator. Unemployment is…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 21, 2016 6:31 p.m. ET Share Law is one of nation’s toughest measures targeting short-term apartment rentals Getty Images New law allows for fines of up to $7,500 for people who…

Shutterstock A number of popular high-traffic websites were compromised today by a cyber attack on Dyn, a cloud-based Internet Performance Management (IPM) company. The most significantly affected reported areas include the American Northeast, Mid-Southwest and Eastern U.K. Their engineers began…

“Let The Transformation Begin” was the theme for Dell EMC World 2016 (Photo: Justin Warren) Dell EMC has presented a surprisingly united front at its recent Dell EMC World held in the company’s home town of Austin, Texas. An array of new products, tweaked products, and consistent branding across the…

Technology Cybersecurity: It’s Mission Critical for Business A Q&A with Richard A. Spires, CEO, Learning Tree International. October 21, 2016 by

How does it work when you or your assistant call or go online to charter a private jet via a broker? As I’ve detailed before, it’s not like Uber , nor is it like booking a ticket on a commercial airline through say United.com, where you see real time availability, and by clicking “purchase” have…

Microsoft Corp. stock hit levels it has not seen since the dot-com boom Thursday evening, thanks to cloud computing and a bit of financial engineering. Microsoft MSFT, -0.49% reported profits for its fiscal first quarter Thursday that beat Wall Street’s expectations by more than 11%. Investors…

The National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) When feds searched the home of Harold T. Martin, the NSA contractor accused of stealing top secret files from the intelligence agency , they took an astonishing amount of data and a stash of weapons,…

Ryan Lochte, the 12-time Olympic medalist in swimming and current “Dancing With the Stars” contestant, revealed in an interview with New York Magazine this week that he didn’t have a credit card until very recently . He is 32. When asked why he didn’t have a card until now, he said, “I don’t know.…

The part of last night’s debate that impressed me the most besides Trump’s “bad hombres” line was not the discussion of the candidate’s tax plans, which like most of the debates generated more heat than light. What intrigued me was the discussion of Trump’s own taxes , with Hillary Clinton leading…

Technology Zenefits Woos Human Resources With App Store Approach The new platform will allow users to download additional applications that can access employee information. October 20, 2016 by

No one wants to shoot a smartphone video or start updating software only to find a popup saying storage is full. Photos and music probably maxed out the phone. A certain six people in Taiwan kept running into these problems and knew plenty of others who did, too. So they decided to do something…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. detailed some short-term pain it foresees when two previously announced spinoffs close in the coming fiscal year, but said its remaining businesses should grow slightly regardless. The company, created a year ago from the breakup of the former Hewlett-Packard Co., on…

A few announcements in the last week point to voluntary actions by Network Operators to improve the security of the Internet as well as a couple solutions offering local storage treated like and associated with cloud storage. Finally cloud storage software provider introduces its Swarm 9 solution…

Are you looking for dividend stocks but don’t want to chase performance? It’s not easy to find them, considering so many have risen so much this year. So we’ve identified six possible value dividend stocks in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.62% The companies pass some screens for quality — more on that…

Benefits More Diverse Workplaces Require a Broader View of Benefits Rethink’s Mike Civello said to truly engage an increasingly diverse workforce companies will have to think more holistically about meeting their employees’ needs. October 18, 2016 by

Stocks continue to chop around as we head toward a lineup of huge events in the coming weeks. First, we have third quarter earnings reports underway. Remember, last quarter companies reported into lowered expectations. And they beat at about the same rate they historically beat–about 70% of the…

Home General International news The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 17, 2016 5:09 p.m. ET Share WikiLeaks founder has been holed up in Ecuadorean embassy in London for 4 years AFP/Getty Images Julian Assange, founder of the online leaking platform…

Julian Assange, founder of the online leaking platform WikiLeaks, is seen on a screen as he addresses journalists via a live video connection during a press conference on the platform’s 10th anniversary on October 4, 2016 in Berlin. (Photo credit:STEFFI LOOS/AFP/Getty Images) Is Julian Assange’s…

Working Well Corporate Wellness: Get Your Namaste On Marrying the corporate and wellness worlds, Lyndsey Morash started a couple business ventures based on her experiences as an employee and a yoga enthusiast. October 17, 2016 by