Much as designing customer experience has dominated the thinking of companies competing in today’s digital environment, organizations are now reexamining their employee experience. Technology can help companies take a personalized approach. September 5, 2016 by

This weekend the annual JavaScript conference Nodevember became the most recent participant in the political correctness (PC) wars when it un-invited keynote speaker Douglas Crockford , renowned for his involvement in advances to the modern web and the JavaScript programming language, from its…

Getty Images A stronger economy puts more cars on the road for longer, helping push up driving fatalities. Because American drivers are logging increased mileage and some are texting while driving, about 9% more died in vehicle crashes in the first six months of 2016 than in the same stretch last…

As Zenefits showed, a platform’s woes can affect its customers. How can companies protect themselves as they move HR processes to the cloud? September 4, 2016 by

Seven years into a bull market for U.S. stocks, we’re seeing warnings every day that valuations may be too high. But the economic news is mostly positive , and many big retailers are increasing sales and widening profit margins. Earnings season is nearly over, and analysts polled by S&P Global…

(Photo courtesy of Shutterstock) Do you find it as disappointing as I do when you hear that a company’s cofounders have gone their separate ways? This is especially true when the leadership has put in sweat equity and gotten through the hard stuff: pooling resources, boot-strapping, finding the…

College football season has, at long last returned, and that means that many Americans will be following their favorite teams trials and tribulations on a weekly basis. I know that I will. Anyone who knows me understands that there are two things that get me going: growing my company and Arizona…

Cartoon by Keith Knight Use of police dogs have been in the news because of a guy in Ohio who got 45 years for killing one . I got to thinking that police puppies would be a far safer, and more pleasant way to seek justice. Cartoon by Keith Knight . Launch Gallery Comment on this story

Apple Inc. activated a long-existing but never used Twitter Inc. account Friday, and just after noon Pacific time, its first “tweet” hyped its expected iPhone debut next week. September 7 at 10 a.m. PT Watch the event on https://t.co/yLa2e4Xr2R . RT for a reminder on event day. #AppleEvent…

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(L to R) Moderator and Internet entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, Chemi Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango Venture Capital, Edouard Cukierman, founder and Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments, Adam Singolda, founder and CEO of Taboola, Amit Lang, Director General at the Israeli…

Retirement Benefits HR’s Robo Connection to Retirement Benefits Some companies are turning to robo-advisers to help workers manage their 401(k)s, but not everyone’s sold on the technology. September 2, 2016 by

Home General National news The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 1, 2016 7:04 p.m. ET Share ‘Guccifer’ admitted hacking about 100 Americans Reuters Marcel Lazar Lehel is escorted by policemen in Bucharest, Romania, after being arrested in 2014. By Kate…

Same-sex couples have faced no shortage of obstacles on their path towards equality in this country: religious dogma, deep-rooted bigotry, and eight seasons of Will & Grace have proven hard to overcome. But overcome they have, as evidenced by two recent landmark court cases that have dramatically…

Kaymera – an Android operating system that works on off-the-shelf devices. Its owners also hack mobiles, whether running Google or Apple’s OS. “We don’t have any relationship with NSO Group,” says Avi Rosen. He’s keen to put distance between the company over which he presides, the secure Android…

Pexels.com When I launched my business, RealtyMogul.com , I knew I was onto something big. I could see the way the JOBS Act of 2012 would open up crowdfunding to a wider audience than ever before, and I knew from working with my mother that the world of real estate was ready for disruption. She was…

By the time I’m 66 years old, roads will be filled with autonomous cars, I’ll have a holographic avatar for a personal assistant and my grandkids will be traveling the world while never leaving the classroom, thanks to the magic of augmented reality. Oh, and assuming I carry my fashion-forward…

Whether it’s in response to an upcoming presentation, interview, round of layoffs, new position, or networking meeting , anxiety is an emotion we encounter repeatedly throughout our careers (and…lives). It’s not a comfortable experience, and it’s not meant to be. Anxiety is an evolutionarily…

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A partnership offering discounts on Wells Fargo student loans to members of Amazon Prime Student has abruptly — and quietly — ended. An Amazon AMZN, -0.76% spokeswoman confirmed in an email to MarketWatch that the company is no longer offering the student loan promotion, which allowed Prime Student…

Cynthia Wade Having won an Academy Award for her acclaimed HBO documentary Freeheld in 2008, Cynthia Wade more recently turned her attentions towards the ups and downs of entrepreneurial pursuits. Her fascinating, new film ’ Generation Startup ‘ tells the stories of a group of young college…

Working Well Back to Basics: Appealing to a Multigenerational Workforce Employers need to offer the basics of benefits to appeal to any generation. August 31, 2016 by

Shutterstock Back in the 1960s the successful salesperson was typically seen as a confident and trusted ally that helped you solve a variety of business issues. It’s a given that the product or service had to work; the core of the relationship, however, was personal. It was between two people who…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 7:32 p.m. ET Share Chinese firm run by former Microsoft exec Getty Images Microsoft said in May it planned to shut down the Chinese Web portal. By Jay Greene Three…

My days at Google, YouTube, and now Node have been fruitful, but they’ve also been difficult. You’d hope, in such well-educated workplaces, that gender wouldn’t matter — it does. Women occupy just 15 percent of technical roles in the nation’s tech industry. At the directorial level, it’s even more…

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla is a smart company run by smart people. They know that there are going to be some missteps in the quest to achieve great things. Tesla has revolutionized how we view electric cars and are going to be at the forefront of how we transport ourselves in the…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 5:20 p.m. ET Share Cyberattacks linked to same group that hacked DNC Bloomberg News Center for Strategic & International Studies, confirmed on Tuesday that it was…

Buzz Aldrin and Larry Page of Google with Bob Weiss and Peter Diamondis of the X Prize Foundation in September 2007. (AP Photo/Ric Francis) Google’s lunar X Prize competition is visionary. Sixteen teams from around the world are competing for the “Moon Shot” with a grand prize of $20 million and a…

Setting up an on-site flu vaccination may be all the motivation employees need to get vaccinated. August 29, 2016 by

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 4:15 a.m. ET Share Recent cyberattacks on two state election boards Bloomberg News Federal officials have grown increasingly concerned that hackers, and even foreign…

Regrets: Antonio Horta-Osorio, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group (Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg ) The British Press is calling its latest sex scandal “Lloyd’s Bonk.” The nation’s largest retail bank, still partly owned by the U.K. government has been caught with its trousers down. Or, rather,…

Tim Cook had big shoes to fill when he took the reins as Apple Inc.’s chief executive from company co-founder Steve Jobs five years ago. That role has exposed him to intense scrutiny, with particular emphasis placed on the ways in which he has or has not stacked up against Jobs, whose legacy…

Most people completely ignore their spam folders. But I scour mine to find the latest scam , which acts like cyber-flypaper for all sorts of swindles. Recently I got a message congratulating me on winning something from “ Yahoo YHOO -0.41% Inc.” The subject line simply read “Yahoo Promotion.” Of…

Not many people break $1 million in a one-person business . Laszlo Nadler , whose startup appeared in this blog last year, blasted through that milestone in 2015. This year, the father-of-two, based in East Brunswick BC -0.27% , N.J., is on track to break $2 million at his Amazon store…

“The Matrix” is now 17 years old, but I still remember my jaw dropping when Neo interfaced with the Matrix for the first time and uploaded a kung-fu database directly to his brain. My first thought was: Wouldn’t it be cool to upload information directly into our minds, instead of wasting time and…

The vision of a world that depends on self-driving cars has been the hottest topic in Silicon Valley this summer. In the past few weeks, a slew of partnerships have formed between big auto makers, tech companies and startups as companies place a variety of bets to ensure they are not left behind.…