The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Oct 9, 2016 4:16 p.m. ET Share Partnership will help production company distribute its movies in China Bloomberg News Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. By Alyssa Abkowitz Erich Schwartzel Not even Steven Spielberg is immune to Chinese moves…

India is rising in the global economy, leaving neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh in the dust, and closing in on China. When it comes to global competitiveness that is, climbing 32 ranks in World Economic Forum’s competitiveness index in the last two years! That’s good news for investors who have…

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the L.A. LIVE entertainment complex in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg If you’re putting together a public relations (PR) effort for your company, I urge you to let go of the antiquated picture you may have in your head of…

“The harder I work, the luckier I get” is a quote that describes Mariam Naficy. Mariam is a woman who never rests on her laurels (trust me, she has many) and approaches her personal and professional life with passion and dedication that is enviable. Naficy co-founded her first company, Eve.com, in…

Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images The presidential election is almost at an end and most of the country couldn’t be happier at that fact. But businesses might be looking at the presidential election in a different way. There are a lot of marketing lessons that can be learned from both candidates,…

Imagine discovering an entirely new calling not only for yourself but also your parents after a single encounter on a plane. It happened to Henry Miller, a farm boy from Burlington, Wash., when he was 11 years old. He sat next to a beekeeper on an Alaska Airlines flight. The beekeeper told him about…

Tesla assembly Model S cars in the Tesla factory in Fremont, California. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) There is nothing small about the ambitions of Tesla Motors and its CEO Elon Musk. The brash California carmaker, planning the auto industry’s fastest production increase and mid-way through construction of…

It is almost as if the earth shifted a few degrees on its axis and no one noticed. The finance and nonprofit worlds have come together to create a financing model that literally allows investors to earn a positive financial return on programs that lead to reductions in homelessness–and no one seems…

(Photo courtesy of Pexels) In this digital age, data security and password protection are a daily, even hourly, fact of life. There’s a continuous flow of news about security breaches and hacks. A company like Yahoo! couldn’t defend itself against hackers who were able steal 500 million user…

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It’s a story that’s as old as time itself: boy meets girl; girl loans boy $450K to fund the creation of a golf-themed comic strip; boy laughs his way all the way to the car dealership; boy loses girl, but keeps the cash. Wait…what’s that you say? You’ve never heard story before? Well, trust me, it…

Brian Green shares a photo of his post-fire Samsung Note 7 Samsung has to be as agitated as the ions in the batteries of its Note 7 devices now that a replacement phone with a presumably safe battery has shown a similar propensity to catch fire as those recalled last month. The latest Note 7, on an…

The Fancy Bear hackers who breached the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) released emails and other documents about the use of banned substances by American athletes on Thursday. Previously, the group had only leaked files listing Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), banned substances allowed for use…

Hackers can take advantage of Apple Macs’ features to spy on webcam sessions. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker with a penchant for finding novel Apple Mac hacks, has proposed a new way snoops might spy on people via their webcams. As Macs make their camera…

The Fed decided to postpone an expected interest rate hike. Most institutional investors and financial advisors breathed a sigh of relief, and now savvy stock pickers are getting back to the business of ferreting out whatever bargains remain in this aging bull market. Here are the best ideas for the…

Deep-pocketed suitors are reportedly dropping their bids for Twitter—a blow that could deal a hefty hit to the social media company’s shares, analysts said Thursday. Twitter Inc. TWTR, -5.12% dropped 20.1% to $19.87 Thursday, following a Recode report Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources,…

Since the financial crisis, economies around the world have hurtled from one crisis or market panic to another, whether it was fears over European government indebtedness, deflation in Japan, a slowing of the Chinese growth engine, or the near-debt default of the United States in 2011. With each new…

Editor's Notebook Making a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Dash at HR Tech Show I gleaned some keen insights into the current state of the industry and met two of our 2016 Workforce Game Changers. October 6, 2016 by

U.S. stocks flatlined on Thursday as investors abstained from making big bets ahead of Friday’s much-anticipated September jobs report. Stocks sold off in early trade, but the market recouped much of its losses after a high-ranking European Central Bank official repudiated reports that the central…

As I’ve written in the past, tennis is one of my obsessions. So is my diminishing memory. Recently, I managed to bring them together. Who among us is not feeling the effects – forgetfulness chief among them? Photo: Shutterstock In the middle of a hard-fought match, both my opponent, Carlo, and I got…

Are you a really a long-term investor? This is a great time to look in the mirror and answer that question, because stock valuations have continued to rise in the prolonged low-interest-rate environment, and the multiple expansion cannot go on forever. John Carey, an executive vice president of…

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Home Industries The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 6, 2016 2:33 p.m. ET Share The program launched weeks after the retailer announced a 17% drop in profits Bloomberg News Bed Bath & Beyond had become well-known for the many coupons sent to shoppers By…

Fear… It can be paralyzing. It may be what is keeping you stuck in that job or relationship that you hate. Neuroscience tells us that when the fear system of the brain is active, we are less likely to take risks, and more likely to cling onto what we already have. Moreover, fear requires massive…

Working Well My Second HR Conference: Finally Getting the Hang of It I attended the 2016 HR Tech conference in Chicago this year and noticed a few overarching trends. October 6, 2016 by

It’s been a rough week for the hundreds of millions of people who use Yahoo YHOO, -0.43% email accounts. A massive breach of email accounts announced by the company last week may now surpass 1 billion—and compounding the company’s security debacle comes a new report that it secretly searched through…

Shutterstock The articles and discussions for Customer Service Week 2016 that I’ve seen focus on “external customers”–you know, the people we used to simply call “customers.” The people who fill the company coffers and make it possible for it to grow and pay its bills The people who, as the saying…

Getty Images Snapchat recently rebranded to be called Snap. Snap Inc. is working on an initial public offering that could value the popular virtual-messaging company at $25 billion or more, in what would be one of the highest-profile debuts in years. The company, formerly known as Snapchat, is…

The Practical Employer NLRB Takes One on the Chin in Appellate Decision Check out these scathing words from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. October 6, 2016 by

Cartoon by Ted Rall. What supporters of Hillary Clinton fail to understand about many Donald Trump voters is that their argument that Trump would destroy everything is doomed to fail precisely because that’s what they want: to see the system blown up. Cartoon by Ted Rall .

Last week I spoke to an entrepreneur with a unique PR challenge—how do you market in a category that has never existed before? As it turns out, the challenge he faces is more ubiquitous than unique. Think of the things we now take for granted that several years ago didn’t exist, such as “Amazon…

The NSA might have another leaker on its hands thanks to a Booz Allen Hamilton employee, though investigators are unsure of his motives. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) Booz Allen Hamilton stock took a trip south today on news that a former employer had been arrested over allegations he’d used his…

Don’t look for taper-tantrum worries to go away soon. Of course, we aren’t talking about the Fed ... this time. Global equities are still fixated this morning on a rumor that was swatted away by the European Central Bank, that it could be looking to scale back its monetary stimulus. European stocks…

Whether the threat is real or imagined, first-time app creators (also called appreneurs) can have a tough time coping with their fears. The plurality of fear is to be noted, only because there are many worries and concerns plaguing appreneurs, even before they’ve embarked on their journey. These…

Special Report, Technology HR Management Systems Special Report: Separating Fact and Fiction Mobile and workforce analytics promise to make HR technology more engaging and personal, but are they still more hype than reality? October 5, 2016 by

Home Industries The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 4, 2016 8:14 p.m. ET Share By Monica Langley Twitter Inc. is expected to field bids this week, and Marc Benioff has been building a case to Salesforce.com Inc. investors and others that his company…

I love studying customer experience because companies need so much help, even in the so-called best companies. It’s always interesting to see how these major brands actually train (or don’t train) employees. I recently had a baby and my husband and I are re-evaluating our current car, a Mercedes…

At its annual hardware event one year ago, Alphabet Inc. unveiled the same gadgets Apple Inc. had earlier in the year, but at cheaper price points . This year, it went another way, unveiling two products in areas Apple has yet to enter at prices well lower than the iPhone maker typically touches. On…