Restaurant chain McDonald's Corp. MCD, -1.14% recently said first-quarter sales slipped 1% from a year earlier. But on a “constant currencies” basis, sales actually increased 3%. Social-media platform Twitter Inc. TWTR, -5.12% posted a first-quarter net loss of $79.7 million. After adjustments, with…

About 3 years into our startup, after the successful introduction of our first product, Ice Cider, Charlie and I started thinking about whether it was time to launch a new product as a follow-up act. Having both come from marketing backgrounds, we believed wholeheartedly in the importance of…

Update: The photo caption on this story previously included a partial quote from Jim Cramer, it has been updated to include the full quote. CNBC TV personality and “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer has built a lucrative career as a stock picker, but a new analysis of his charitable fund—a personal stock…

DAP and Mark Ronson outside of Abbey Road Studios in London (Photo courtesy of Converse) Since launching in 2011, Converse Rubber Tracks has evolved from a stand alone studio for aspiring artists into a multi-faceted, global music platform. Converse developed the Rubber Tracks program with the help…

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Employers that use hiring tests must ensure that the tests are job-related and consistent with business necessity, as required under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP). The regulations apply to all employers that use employment…

Talent acquisition professionals with higher variable performance-based pay tend to deliver higher-quality shortlists, engage with candidates more often and fill requisitions more quickly, according to a new survey report. About two-thirds (63 percent) of 998 recruiters receive performance-based…

Home Industries Banking The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 12, 2016 10:42 p.m. ET Share Malware found; $81 million stolen in February cyber-heist Bloomberg News The latest malware attack targeted a commercial bank. By Katy Burne Hackers have again…

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Recent announcements about restructurings, divestitures, and layoffs by leading semiconductor companies are showing the impact from the wave of merger mania that struck the industry in 2015. What we are not seeing yet are the benefits of those acquisitions. However, one of the large mergers that…

Size matters in traffic . In tight or crowded spaces on sidewalks, the right-of-way goes to whoever’s moving the fastest or pushing the biggest object. Someone with a cart of vegetables or a baby stroller gets to push others aside, especially if moving faster than pedestrians with mere briefcases.…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 11, 2016 9:03 p.m. ET Share Settlement could keep drivers as independent contractors Getty Images Under the settlement, Lyft drivers working six months would get more than…

Benefits Talking About Death With Your Employees Employers need to think more on how to help their employees deal with the dying process. May 11, 2016 by

A written training plan is among the new employer requirements that went into effect May 10 for companies employing eligible foreign graduates of U.S. colleges and universities via the government’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. The…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 10, 2016 10:34 p.m. ET Share Popular mobile messaging app rivals Skype, Apple’s iMessage Bloomberg News WhatsApp has more than 1 billion users worldwide. By Nathan…

Malaysia’s ruling coalition and embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak got some breathing room this month but aren’t out of the ICU. Najib’s Barisan Nasional party won 72 of 82 state assembly seats in Sarawak on Saturday, indicating that the party’s coalition has a chance of holding parliament in…

Retirement 101 on 401(k)s Seminar offers HR pros who are novices on retirement issues information that they can pass on to their workforces. May 10, 2016 by

As the labor market tightens, employers nationally have been hampered by a lack of experienced recruiters: veterans who have the chops to work effectively with hiring managers, identify qualified candidates, and develop the relationships necessary to build and maintain a pipeline of talent. As a…

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Residents of Austin, Texas, voted May 7 to keep strict background checks, including fingerprinting, for drivers working for popular ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft. In late 2015, the Austin City Council passed an ordinance requiring ride-hailing companies to be regulated like taxis and requiring…

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: May 9, 2016 11:04 p.m. ET Share Regulators step in after student died from therapy found on web ad AFP/Getty Images Baidu said it would implement changes to its search results…

Losing Cash Motivates Better Than Rewards When Losing Weight Penalties work for wellness goals, a University of Pennsylvania study finds. May 9, 2016 by

FILE – In this Feb. 17, 2016 file photo, an iPhone is seen in Washington. The FBI said Wednesday, April 27, 2016, that it will not publicly disclose the method that allowed it to break into a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, saying it lacks enough “technical information”…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: May 8, 2016 8:36 p.m. ET Share Tech firm worried about being too close to intelligence agencies Getty Twitter is blocking access to the Dataminr service. By Christopher S.…

U.S. employers laid off 65,141 workers in April 2016, according to the latest report from global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. April’s job cuts increased by 35 percent month-over-month and were nearly 6 percent higher than the 61,582 cuts reported in April 2015. Layoffs for…

A shake-up in the Saudi government over the weekend, which included the replacement of oil minister Ali al-Naimi by Khaled al-Faleh, signals that the Kingdom is ready for peace in the oil market. Long serving oil minister Ali al-Naimi was the architect of Saudi Arabia’s policy to flood world markets…

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The impact of social media on consumers and businesses alike today is as profound as the rise of Google 15 years ago. Some companies have successfully embraced what I call Social Business and have re-architected their customer engagement strategies and even business models to seize the opportunity…

Home Industries Telecommunications The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 6, 2016 6:57 p.m. ET Share The $55 billion deal will create the second-biggest broadband provider, third-largest pay-TV company in the U.S. Bloomberg By Josh Beckerman The Federal…

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The U.S. economy added 160,000 jobs in April 2016, dampening expectations that the labor market could match the robust gains of the previous two months. The payroll counts for February and March were also revised down, however. The jobs gain for March was lowered from a hearty 215,000 to 208,000,…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 5, 2016 9:42 p.m. ET Share Acqui-hire of firm specializing in online content distribution Bloomberg News/Landov LinkedIn Corp. beat earnings and outlook estimates last week. By…

Last year Lisa Skeete Tatum found herself at a crossroads in her career. A chemical engineer, who had spent more than a decade as a general partner with Cardinal Partners (a $350+ million early stage healthcare venture capital firm), she was looking to change things up. At Cardinal she focused on…

Laws banning the use of credit checks during the hiring process are hurting some of the very people they’re supposed to be helping, according to a recently released study. While employment for people with the lowest credit scores has increased due to the bans, black applicants, applicants under the…

Craig Wright claimed to be Bitcoin mastermind Satoshi Nakamoto. But he’s now backed down from offering real proof. Either Craig Wright’s website has been hacked or he has issued a stunning apology that he can no longer offer proof he is the creator of cryptocurrency Bitcoin, the almost-mythical…

It would be easy to call Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte the reason crime became a top campaign issue. He’s known as a law-and-order mayor of the Southeast Asian country’s second-largest city Davao, where some believe he has even tolerated extrajudicial killings to clean up the…