The Argument 6 Tips for Helping Workers Make Better Investments A veteran market ‘roller coaster’ rider offers some ideas on how to help employees reach a secure retirement through investing — even in a down market. July 7, 2016 by

Home Industries Software The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: July 7, 2016 5:20 p.m. ET Share New wave of consolidation to take on new cyberthreats Avast Software s.r.o The acquisition should bolster Avast’s security offerings. By Robert McMillan Czech…

Most of the developed world is downright addicted to technology. Studies reveal we spend an average 11 hours per day consuming electronic media and check our smartphones up to 85 times daily. With the majority Americans depending so heavily on technology, it’s difficult to imagine turning off all…

Malaysian police announced this month their country’s first confirmed attack by the violent Islamic State. Someone in Syria gave orders to bomb the Movida night club in the Malaysian town of Puchong June 28, injuring eight people, according to local media reports. Now some worry that the night club…

Analysts are starting to worry that Netflix Inc. is struggling to grow its U.S. subscriber base just as its international business comes under pressure, with Brexit, the UK vote to leave the European Union, adding to the gloom. Shares of Netflix NFLX, +1.24% dropped more than 4% during intraday…

The Practical Employer Ohio Attorney General: $15 Minimum Wage is Unconstitutional This issue is far from over, and likely will not be until the Ohio Supreme Court has its say years from now. July 6, 2016 by

Thanks to a historic preference for boys, there’s a significant gender imbalance in the country, and prenatal gender testing and sex selective abortion are banned. However, despite this, according to UNICEF, as many as half a million female fetuses are aborted every year. The government has been…

Inside the new Hong Kong offices of L’Avenue, the holding company for Angela Leong ‘s properties （梁安琪）, a team of 25 professionals has relocated from a smaller perch near Causeway Bay. They toil away on asset arrangements and deals, done through some 250 subsidiaries. It’s a family office, distinct…

Stop bashing white people when they comment on diversity. We need dialogue to root out problems and clean up misunderstandings. And honestly, we can’t win the fight for equality without them. July 1, 2016 by

The long July 4th weekend isn’t just about fireworks, barbecues and America. Now, it’s also about shopping. Retailers have posted their promotional signs and pushed out their sale alert emails in preparation for the three-day weekend. And little more than a week later, on July 12, it’s Amazon Prime…

Not very long ago, you had to be a permanent employee to be the boss at many companies. That’s changing dramatically, according to a new survey. The survey by Addison Group, a staffing firm specializing in professional fields such as accounting, finance and IT, found that 88 percent of hiring…

China wants the South China Sea to be its own sea. And set its own navigation rules in one of the busiest trade regions of the world—most coming from China itself. Just a few days before the ruling of the International Court of Hague (ICH) on the South China Sea disputes, China is using harsh…

Singapore is deemed by some as an idyllic place to foster a new breed of technologically innovative enterprises. As part of the efforts to develop a new breed of technologically innovative global enterprises, many new initiatives promote the inclusion and innovation of technology to make a wave of…

Home Industries By Published: July 2, 2016 2:47 p.m. ET Share Offer jumped 22% to $196 a share during talks By Jay Greene Getty Images Persistent bidding from Salesforce.com Inc. forced Microsoft Corp. to boost its offer for LinkedIn Corp. 22%, or roughly $5 billion, during the two months of…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: July 5, 2016 7:57 p.m. ET Share New CEO also announced; infidelity website was hit with a data breach last year Getty Images By Austen Hufford Maria Armental Avid Life Media…

Literacy is a critical key to learning, earning, staying out of poverty and contributing to the world around us. With America’s education system underperforming, a tremendous amount of investment and entrepreneurship is rising out of the challenges we face. Sage Salvo (aka Gilbert Newman Perkins),…

The TN visa category is a useful tool when recruiting skilled professionals—especially when the H-1B visa option dries up—provided the individuals are citizens of Canada or Mexico. "The TN visa is controlled by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and is applied exclusively to citizens…

(Image Courtesy Christine Daniloff/MIT) A growing range of wearable monitors may help us lead stronger, smoother lives, but MIT’s newest device is looking to save them–specifically, by alerting soldiers when toxic gases are around. Researchers from MIT’s Swager Group developed the small chemical…

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Legal Employment At-Will Is Dead While you are an 'at-will employer,' that doesn’t really mean anything anymore. Employees just have too many protections. July 5, 2016 by

Netflix Inc. subscribers will still be able to get their fix of favorite shows from The CW Network after the two reached a new multi-year licensing deal. The new deal includes all current CW series, such as “The Flash” and Golden Globe-winning shows “Jane the Virgin” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” to…

After many years in the financial media, I’ve come to realize that many investors will never learn what to do during a panic. That’s because, inevitably, they forget their long-term strategy and dump their investments. As a result, they miss out on the inevitable recovery. Inevitable? Yes. As we saw…

pexels.com Content marketing is one of the highest-ROI marketing strategies you can use, coming in 4 th overall out of 10 marketing strategies in a recent survey . This is, in large part, because of its unique long-term compounding effects. Whereas traditional advertising strategies frequently rely…

Employers across the globe plan to increase hiring over the next three months overall, though at a slightly slower pace than in recent quarters, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey . Globally, 40 of the 43 countries and territories surveyed expect a positive net employment…

Wacky World of Work The Wacky World of Work: Jack Hanna at SHRM At the SHRM conference in Washington, D.C., James Tehrani caught up with legendary zoologist Jack Hanna to talk ... HR and more. June 28, 2016 by

Credit: Wikipedia Symantec makes security software for the enterprise market. They also sell a line of products for the consumer market under their Norton brand. All of their anti-virus products use the same core engine and that engine has been found to have high level and potentially devastating…

Joshua Browder College freshman Joshua Browder thinks chatbots can be pretty cool, but the ones showing up on Facebook FB +0.06% Messenger lately, to a great deal of hype, are not. A better idea is public service bots, and he’s built a few himself. Browder’s web-based bot DoNotPay has appealed…

The Supreme Court gave diversity a narrow but important win as affirmative action lives on at the University of Texas. June 27, 2016 by

(Photo by Tom Dulat/Getty Images) With the dog days of summer fast approaching, and thousands of teenagers starting their first summer jobs, I’d like to offer some advice: Everyone should work in a service industry at least once in their lives. They could work in a restaurant, a resort, or the…

Israel’s minister of internal security has accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of having blood on his hands for failing to remove online posts that encourage terrorism. In an interview with Channel 2 on Saturday, Gilad Erdan said the company was failing to censor ‘incitement and lies’.…

Within hours of arriving on my dream trip to Turkey on Tuesday, I faced a question I’d never before had to contemplate: “Should I stay or should I go?” The trip had started beautifully. The view I’d Instagrammed of the Bosphorus Strait from the Swissôtel’s roof deck was already getting multiple…

The Practical Employer Your Employees Are Using Social Media at Work; Deal With It A slacking employee will not become a star performer just because you limit their social media access. June 29, 2016 by

The decline in U.S. stocks June 24, as investors digested Great Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, left some investments particularly damaged. That sets up opportunities for investors with money to commit right now, according to analysts at Jefferies. Before the S&P 500 SPX, +0.02% tumbled…

Internships have become a significant part of college for many students, giving them practical, real-world experience to put on their entry-level resumes. But large companies with deep pockets have repeatedly run into trouble for not paying their interns. Condé Nast, NBCUniversal, Sirius XM Radio…

MQ-9 Reaper military drone (Image: US Air Force / Staff Sergeant Brian Ferguson) Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can defeat human pilots in combat. This new AI, known as ALPHA, is designed for military drones or ‘unmanned aerial vehicles’ (UAVs). ALPHA was tested in…

Apttus, a Silicon Valley startup with a valuation of at least $1 billion, plans to go public in the first half of 2017, the company told MarketWatch exclusively on Monday. Apttus has hired Sydney Carey, a former chief financial officer at Zscaler, to lead the process as its CFO. The company isn’t…

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