YouTube is reportedly ready to compete with cable TV providers by offering a paid subscription bundle of streaming TV channels as soon as next year. Bloomberg News reported Wednesday that YouTube, a division of Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +0.04% GOOGL, +0.06% Google business, has been working on the…

HR and IT: The Dynamic Duo in Fighting Cybersecurity Risks The rise of mobile and cloud technology has amped up the need for cybersecurity. Experts says coordinated efforts between HR and IT are important. May 4, 2016 by

A month ago, Workforce employment law columnist and blogger Jon Hyman wrote in his “Practical Employer” blog that the producers for Broadway’s “Hamilton” could not claim race as a “bona fide occupational qualification” when sending a casting call out for nonwhite actors. He was right that they can’t…

In move that will affect millions of freelancers, the giant online marketplace Upwork announced today that it is changing the fees it charges workers to find projects on the platform, to prioritize high-value, ongoing work. Instead of its current 10% flat fee, Upwork is moving to a sliding scale.…

Once more the start of the month comes round, and Google updates the Android Developer dashboard with the latest percentage shares of each major version of Android on active devices. May’s numbers show Android Marshmallow (the sixth major version of Android) has seen a rise of 2.9 percent from last…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services By and Published: May 3, 2016 5:10 p.m. ET Share Company plans to eliminate 171 jobs, two top execs leaving By Telis Demos Peter Rudegeair Prosper Marketplace Inc., one of the biggest upstart online consumer lenders, is cutting about 28% of its staff, while…

Cat herder. Mind reader. Order taker. No, these aren’t the ways talent acquisition professionals can make an impact, but these are the roles other people in the organization expect them to play, according to Kara Yarnot, founder and president of Meritage Talent Solutions, based in Washington, D.C.…

Stocks closed higher and near session highs Monday, with the Nasdaq Composite snapping a seven-day streak of losses after data showed slow-but-steady economic growth unfolding in the U.S. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.02% climbed 16.13 points, or 0.8%, to close at 2,081.43, led by gains in…

Two-thirds of employers plan to hire from this year’s crop of college graduates, up 2 percentage points from 2015 and representing the rosiest outlook in a decade, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder. The national survey of 2,186 hiring managers and human resource professionals conducted…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: May 1, 2016 10:45 p.m. ET Share New service would compete with cable TV Hulu A selection of current TV shows featured on Hulu Plus. By Joe Flint Shalini Ramachandran Hulu is…

Whenever there is a case about taxpayers taking a huge charitable contribution for promising to leave their golf course a golf course, the first thing that always pops into my head is Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn’s poem: “The golf links lie so near the mill/That almost every day/The laboring children…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 30, 2016 3:33 p.m. ET Share Bloomberg News Twitter Inc. headquarters in San Francisco. By Alejandro Lazo SAN FRANCISCO — Lucho Cabrera, a 53-year-old formerly homeless man,…

Hacked By Def Con Press Preview during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. (Rob Kim/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival) Cybersecurity headlines this week have been filled with emerging details of the February 2016 cyber theft of 81 million dollars from the Bangladesh central bank’s…

It’s been a crazy week for hacks! Minecraft was hacked. The dating site “Beautiful People” was hacked . The music app Spotify was likely hacked (again), though the company denies it. The hackers who stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank likely compromised SWIFT software . A software…

Stocks fell on Friday as blue-chip tech shares dragged on the market, but the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average clung to April gains to score the second monthly rise in a row. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.02% slid 10.51 points, or 0.5%, to close at 2,065.30 on the back of big losses in the…

Employers frequently want to hire talented employees who are bound by post-employment restrictive covenants (e.g., noncompetes, or customer/employee nonsolicitation covenants). Often, a plain reading of the prospective hire’s agreement raises questions about whether joining your company would…

A world arbitration court will rule in in May or June on a fractious maritime dispute between China and the Philippines. The five-person Permanent Court of Arbitration, after seven hearings, is studying now whether China’s claim to a giant tropical ocean flouts UN conventions. Manila said that when…

Bloomberg News/Landov LinkedIn’s first-quarter earnings surprise only partially returned the company back to Wall Street’s graces, after last quarter’s bomb , as concerns about its slowing growth remain among investors. After initially being overjoyed by its earnings beat, LinkedIn investors drove…

When David Novak joined the pedigreed ranks of PepsiCo Inc.’s executive management team in the mid-’80s, he stood out from the start. His regular-guy demeanor, untucked shirts and slight Texas twang seemed at odds with the besuited Ivy League MBAs hungry to succeed in the company’s sink or swim…

If you build it, they will come. Although Kevin Costner’s character in “Field of Dreams” was referring to a baseball diamond in the middle of a cornfield, recruiters who are building company pages on smaller, niche social media channels—like Snapchat, Periscope, Instagram and Pinterest—are…

It’s a Presidential election year, which means that debates about the issues affecting the country is at an all-time high…even in the checkout lines at Wal-Mart. In a heated, profanity-based, but non-violent exchange, a woman in line behind a man using food stamps for his purchases goes off on how…

After the fall of LinkedIn, is there any hope to renew the company’s connection with Wall Street? LinkedIn Corp. LNKD, +0.09% shares dropped 44% in one day, the largest one-day drop in its history, after its last earnings report revealed some worrisome trends . Now, investors tread lightly into a…

Many organizations still misunderstand how to tackle cyber threats. In this podcast, two industry-leading experts from Control Risks, Greg Esslinger and Kate Yamashita, talk to CEO Richard Fenning about the best ways to prepare for and respond to the inevitable cyber attack.

Getty Six years ago, Twitter Inc. thought users paying to promote their tweets would be the key to monetizing its social-networking service. Earlier this year, it was the company’s “Moments” app, along with related efforts to center around popular and breaking content that would right the ship. Now,…

In all likelihood , you know what burnout feels like : Exhaustion, disinterest, poor performance, irritability, lack of empathy. The media often claims it’s caused by bad work environments; bad coworkers; bad bosses. This is partially true: Employees with large caseloads experience burnout more…

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Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before their physical appeal is judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in to the “elite” club based on looks…

Early-Onset Alzheimer’s: Too Soon to Forget As baby boomers age, employers should prepare for more Alzheimer’s disease cases in the workplace. But sometimes, younger workers get the disease, too. April 25, 2016 by

AFP/Getty Images Uber drivers initially sued the company saying they were employees, not independent contractors. Though some Uber drivers could receive up to $8,000 from a class-action settlement agreement, the majority are headed for a payout of about $24 or less, according to court documents.…

Tim McCollum, a former Peace Corps worker in Madagascar, is cofounder and CEO of Madécasse, a Brooklyn-based chocolate company that’s trying to help farmers in Madagascar by producing its product in-country. Photo courtesy of Madécasse. When it comes to life’s small pleasures, hardly anything beats…

India’s Most Wanted: ex-billionaire Vijay Mallya got his passport revoked today. He is currently living in the U.K. and wanted for financial crimes associated with his failed Kingfisher Airlines back home, which is where all of his money was made. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images) India’s…

Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.56% is expected to report its first year-over-year decline in iPhone unit sales when it reports second-quarter earnings after the market close on Tuesday. Several analysts have lowered iPhone estimates in recent weeks, citing weak outlooks from Apple suppliers such as Jabil…

A large part of the ongoing battle to keep a mobile device secure is to ensure that users’ devices are kept up to date with patches for exploits, bug fixes, and keeping the software secure; then the latest numbers from the two main platforms show a huge chasm in the protection offered. The ‘leaf’ on…