Consumers are financially healthy but nervous about the state of the world, and that is stopping them from spending freely. That’s one theme to emerge from the second-quarter earnings season, according to Goldman Sachs, whose analysts were taking stock Friday of what companies have had to say about…

Dollar General is committed to showing the world’s largest retailer that it can fill some pretty big shoes. The value-price chain in July acquired 41 former Walmart Express stores, and in doing so laid the groundwork for adding a new concept to its portfolio – larger-format stores. It is the exact…

The Jensen Quality Growth Fund has been one of the best-performing large-cap growth funds over the past few years, even as the stock market has hit plenty of potholes and many other active fund managers have lagged behind the market. The fund focuses on just a modest number of high-conviction picks,…

Wellness Employers Can Swat Zika Concerns with Education Push The Zika virus may cause fear in your employees, but educating them and taking preventative measures is key in protecting the workforce while keeping employees calm. August 12, 2016 by

A MICROS sign stands outside the MICROS Systems Inc. headquarters building in Columbia, Maryland, U.S., on Monday, June 23, 2014. The Oracle-owned company is one of six retailers to have suffered a breach at the hands of the same hackers. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg. Hackers have breached…

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 11, 2016 8:07 p.m. ET Share New method to rank ‘most informative’ posts for users Bloomberg News Facebook polls tens of thousands of people worldwide for its Feed Quality…

It’s hard to not be impressed lately by Amazon.com Inc. Shares are up 14% year-to-date, more than the broader market, and up about 60% from the lows of around $480 in February. And of course, Amazon AMZN, -0.76% was one of the top performers in the S&P 500 SPX, +0.02% last year with a return of…

The Practical Employer Are Your DOL Posters Up to Date? As with all posters, a covered employer must display each in a prominent and conspicuous place. August 11, 2016 by

The data center is fundamentally changing. Yet today, as before, every company in the world is building their own data center. That makes about as much sense as every company building their own furniture or generating their own power. It’s inefficient, and it’s a big diversion of limited corporate…

A Myles self-driving car renter in India. Photo courtesy of Myles. Car rental company Myles is proving that next gen India is thinking quite differently from their parents when it comes to cars and whether to own one or not. The Indian automotive industry is one of the largest in the world,…

You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes . Howard Leonhardt is the co-inventor of the TALENT stent acquired by Medtronic MDT -0.72% and used to treat over 200,000 patients. With boundless optimism, 20 patents issued and more pending, he has launched Leonhardt Ventures to form…

Jet.com Inc. pitches itself as a lower-priced alternative to Amazon.com Inc., partly by not tacking on sales taxes in most states. But tax experts say Jet’s sale to retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, +0.32% could jeopardize that price advantage by forcing it to collect taxes nationwide. A 1992…

Welcome to “Negotiate This,” where we’re telling true stories of how using collaborative negotiation can expand what is possible. We ask women entrepreneurs and leaders to share their stories of how creativity and collaboration led to successful, win-win deals. In these true stories names have been…

Crisis or regulation would appear the only things that will compel banks to change their behaviour. So, with this in mind, can a shake-up in UK retail banking really be instigated after a British financial watchdog announced that new phone-based apps could help customers find banks offering the…

Editor's Notebook Timing Symbolic of Job Boards’ Decline as Randstad Acquires Monster The Big 3 — HotJobs, Monster and CareerBuilder — are now just one as the European staffing firm spends $429 million. August 9, 2016 by

pexels.com Google GOOGL +0.05% ’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs) are expanding to more organic search results. That statement might not mean much to you, but it’s a major step forward in how Google handles mobile online experiences. The search giant has always favored optimal mobile traffic,…

Ro Kohli/War Machine Marketing To say that Ro Kohli does not look like your typical corporate executive would be an understatement. With his mohawk, tattoos referencing such properties as Roman Dirge’s Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl, and frequently favored T-shirt choices of mash-ups involving…

Yelp Inc. seems to be turning around, reporting an unexpected profit on Tuesday fueled by strong sales of local ads, giving credence to changing sentiment on Wall Street toward the company. Earlier Tuesday, online review pioneer Yelp YELP, -2.69% reported a slight net profit of one cent a share,…

San Diego has previously been better known for being the the headquarters of Qualcomm and the US Navy and Marine Corps , the latter employing more than 130,000 people across the city and home to the largest concentration of military in the world. Recently, however, San Diego is becoming more widely…

Macy’s Inc. will report second-quarter earnings on Thursday before the market opens. The retailer attributed many of its first-quarter problems to a drop in tourism sales , but other factors including the “Amazon effect,” consumer shift to e-commerce, and traffic declines at the mall are also…

Evan Booth turned his Keurig into a bionic hand… though it can only bend the fingers at the minute. Ever look at a Keurig coffee machine and think: “Hey, that’d make a badass bionic hand.”? No? Well, software engineer Evan Booth did. So, he spent 199 hours, 56 minutes and 36 seconds taking the…

So I got an email alert from Citibank earlier this week. Seems someone had used my U.S.-issued Mastercard for an Uber ride in Amsterdam that the bank denied as suspicious. I called Citi and discovered that, in fact, the card number had been used for three Uber rides and two purchases of lacrosse…

Technically speaking, the U.S. stock benchmarks’ persistent bull trend remains firmly-grounded. Consider that the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite have reached all-time highs this week — confirming their uptrends — amid still broadening sector participation. Before detailing the U.S. markets’ wider…

Mark Cuban, investor on TV show ‘Shark Tank’ & owner of the Dallas Mavericks, speaks during an event to recognize emerging global entrepreneurs. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) As an advisor to startups and an angel investor, I encounter many Millennials as entrepreneurs who are leaders and great…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 9, 2016 4:30 p.m. ET Share ‘Ads are a part of the Facebook experience,’ exec says Getty Images Though most of its ad revenue comes from mobile, Facebook says it has lost some…

Imagine falling from a plane with a parachute strapped to your back, dropping 120 miles per hour toward the tiny green-hued patches of land that populate the planet below you, all the while hoping that parachute is in good working order. The experience is exhilarating. Albeit, not for everyone. But…

Tech giants are hurriedly snapping up startups in the field of artificial intelligence, with Intel Corp. the latest to join a buying spree fueled by one of the hottest trends in the tech sector. The chip giant INTC, +1.30% on Tuesday announced plans to pay an undisclosed amount for Nervana Systems,…

In a scripted hour long speech to the Detroit Economic Club today, Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump outlined (in broad terms) an income tax cut scheme that would tax employees at more than twice the rate of freelancers and business owners. In a significant adjustment to his earlier…

A user on a laptop. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg) This past March Bloomberg offered a compelling look inside the world of election hacking in which campaigns and their supporters hack into their opponents and steal or destroy data, saturate the online space with fake messaging and otherwise attempt to…

Animating the Objects in our Environment Using emerging software and technologies, we can instill intelligence into existing infrastructure such as a power grid by adding smart devices that can communicate with one another, reconfigure themselves depending upon availability of bandwidth, storage,…

Working Well Companies Can Support Breastfeeding Moms as They Return to Work Here is some insight about a different kind of working-mom struggle: transitioning back to work after having a baby. August 8, 2016 by

Income-seeking investors have long had a difficult time, given that interest rates have been so low for so long. And with bond yields falling even more this year than many people thought possible, the resulting flight to yield and safety has pushed prices of many dividend stocks to lofty levels. But…

Home Industries Media The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 7, 2016 9:28 p.m. ET Share Gawker founder filed for bankruptcy last week in fallout from $140 million judgment Reuters Gawker founder Nick Denton, left, and Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan. By Lukas…