Dear Moneyist, My parents are retired, pretty well-off, living conservatively and comfortably. They enjoy traveling, outdoor activities and are in pretty good health. It’s just my sister and me. I am married, own a little condo with my husband and we’re moving soon and expecting our first baby.…

Big companies that ramp up their research and development budget see one big damaging effect, new research has revealed. Rather than encouraging workers to stay and be part of a company that’s trying to find solutions to problems in innovative ways, lots of their best employees walk out of the door…

Getty Getty Growing a business is often a chicken-and-egg situation. Which comes first: increased interest in your product or service, or the ability to meet this new demand? To scale quickly, your business has to be in a position to take advantage of growth opportunities without putting the whole…

By Soulaima Gourani Getty This past summer, a Muslim couple was denied Swiss citizenship after they refused to shake hands with people of the opposite sex during their interview. Recently, The New York Times ran an article about a new Danish law requiring anyone who takes Danish citizenship to shake…

Add one more major player to the streaming wars. Comcast Corp.’s CMCSA, +0.39% NBCUniversal announced Monday it will launch a free, ad-supported streaming service in the first quarter of 2020. According to a report by CNBC , the service will be free to cable subscribers, and available for around $12…

Jacquelyn De Jesu, CEO and founder of Shhhowercap, Photo Credit: Valine Brana for MISSBISH Courtesy of Shhhowercap As someone running a multimillion-dollar company (albeit with a small yet mighty team), Jacquelyn De Jesu, CEO and founder of Shhhowercap , is remarkably on top of her inbox. This…

Getty New Year, New Career? It’s January, the start of a brand new year and historically January is a month when franchisors are flooded with an influx of enquiries from potential recruits whose New Year resolutions include looking for a new career or challenge, seeking a change in direction or…

Even if the economy is on a roll, many Americans aren’t feeling the benefit. Real wages effectively declined in 2018, according to figures from the PayScale Index, a formula from the Seattle-based salary comparison site. PayScale said the median wage increases, when adjusted for inflation, were only…

Here are five pointers to help you build a company culture of innovation and to spark innovative insights throughout its ranks. These principles, which I use onsite with my consulting clients, expand on work I’ve shared here previously that now strikes me as timely as we head into a new year. 1.…

Donors to the crowdfunding effort to support the border wall President Trump wants to build at the U.S.-Mexico border will receive refunds after the campaign misses its target amount. The GoFundMe campaign was started in December by triple-amputee Air Force Veteran and Trump supporter Brian Kolfage…

Macedonian software engineer, Gorjan Jovanovski, speaking at a conference. AllWeb and Nikola Spasov Macedonia’s Tetovo and Skopje lay unenviable claim to being the continent’s two most polluted cities in 2018 – holding air pollution indexes of 95.57 and 83.53 . The annual average of PM2.5…

Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer and cofounder of DeepMind © 2016 Bloomberg Finance LP © 2016 Bloomberg Finance LP Research engineer Jack Kelly announced this week that he has leftGoogle DeepMind to set up a non-profit product development lab that will aim to come up with climate change…

Before the painful fourth-quarter stock market decline, steady dividend payers probably weren’t foremost in many investors’ minds. After all, the Federal Reserve was raising interest rates and the massive cut in federal corporate income taxes was setting up even better earnings and sales comparisons…

istock A couple of years ago, I interviewed a candidate for a key leadership position that would help our company scale and grow. During our “cool-down” on the candidate – a meeting in which everyone involved in the interview process comes together and provides insight on the candidate from their…

A lawsuit Thursday alleging that certain directors and officers of Alphabet Inc., including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, covered up sexual harassment and discrimination has some lurid details on sex and lies, but more importantly, it seeks to shake up a smug board of directors and…

photo credit: Getty Getty I have worked full-time for five different organizations in telecommunications, high-tech and academia over twenty-five years. The employee population in those organizations has ranged from 1500 to well over 50,000. No matter the firm, business unit, or team, it is the…

The U.S. government shutdown, now in its 20th day , is disrupting the initial-public-offering process and may cause delays in some of the bigger deals expected in 2019, including those of ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft. While January and February are typically slow months for new offerings as…

Recently, I have read a few posts criticizing female-only networks. In the current age of diversity and inclusion, are these a step back in terms of equality? Unsplash Unsplash According to a 2018 survey, over 70 percent of women aged 16–64 are employed, this percentage has increased from slightly…

What's hiding behind crypto winter? Blockchain development, gathering disruptive energy. Getty Last year, perceptions of blockchain technology were caught in the crossfire of both cryptocurrency’s swift peak and dramatic plunge. It’s not surprising: cryptocurrency is the first and most visible…

President Trump made his case for funding for a wall on the southern border in a televised address on Tuesday evening, but the American public’s feelings about immigration are far more complicated. Speaking directly to the American people, the president said, “I’ve met with dozens of families whose…

Chef Jose Andres' Jaleo is offering free food to federal employees. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz) A recent spate of natural disasters have prompted some impressive responses from restaurant owners. Think Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, and the floods that followed, which led to volunteer efforts by a…

Some people hit the bar. Others pass the time with the latest Netflix NFLX, +1.56% show or catch a little shut-eye. Then there’s one woman in Florida, who took a rather unique approach to dealing with her travel frustrations: She climbed the desk, called the agent a “rapist” and said she had a gun.…

By Jessica Thiefels, Next Avenue Contributor Getty Of the 28.8 million small businesses in the U.S. 19% are family-owned. As that type of business grows and evolves, it begins to benefit from the many generations running the day-to-day operations. Here are five ways a family business can benefit by…

LAS VEGAS--The artificially intelligent $800 suitcase that's also a robot with cameras and GPS tracking is real. It exists. I just tried it so you wouldn't have to. "The suitcase has cameras and sees just like you do," says Yaxin Guan, the COO of Beijing-based ForwardX, which makes the smart…

Netflix Inc.’s new finance chief will make almost twice as much as its former CFO. Spencer Neumann, who joined the video streaming giant as CFO on Jan. 7, will receive $5 million in salary and $5 million in annual stock option grants, according to a filing with regulators. He also will receive a…

At the end of 2017, I made some predictions for 2018 — and I’m back with my crystal ball to do so again for the year ahead. Some of my predictions last year held true, including a crash for bitcoin and a tumble for oil. However, other forecasts turned out to be wildly off base, including high hopes…

Rudin property management company's executive vice president and COO, John Gilbert. Courtesy of Rudin It’s common to associate the term “big data” with targeted advertising and invasions of privacy, but for New York City-based commercial real estate management company Rudin, the massive sets of…

Health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels on fulfillment, business, lessons learned, and more. PHOTO CREDIT: James Law How can you take what you love and make it your business? What do you do with the criticism and ‘haters’ that come as you start to grow an audience? Do you need a partner to help…

The finances of young Americans are not in great shape. The typical millennial has less than a week of salary (less than $1,000) saved for emergencies and leaves school with more than $37,000 in debt, on average. Many have nothing saved for retirement. Compounding these problems, millennials are…

In 2008, two BYU grad students, Devin Daley and Brian Whitmer, grew frustrated when forced to carry out their studies of software usability on, ironically, very user-unfriendly software. They connected with investor Josh Coates, who provided mentorship and seed money (and later became CEO) and set…

Shutterstock Vivian Kamen, Senior Producer at Doberman "Before working at The New York Times, frog, and now Doberman, I was a professional pastry chef, receiving my training at the French Culinary Institute. I began working as a baker at One Girl Cookies, and then eventually moved on to be head…

Sunday is likely to be the busiest day of the year for online daters, according to multiple online dating sites. The reason? Not only are Sundays the most popular day for online dating, but this Sunday in particular is one when people begin to commit to their resolutions to find love in 2019. That…

Thursday, January 3 rd was truly an amazing day to be in Washington. Regardless of one’s politics, it is inspiring to see the United States Congress reflect America’s diversity better than ever before. But Congress doesn’t have much time to reflect on the moment. With technology and innovation…

Buck that. A recently elected Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, a Deomocrat from Michigan, on Thursday evening went even further than that. There’s no easy way to sugar-coat this: She pledged to impeach motherf*****” Donald Trump. It’s hardly appropriate or polite language to talk about the president of…

John Doerr delivering a TED talk (screenshot of the TED talk video) TED Conferences We tend to believe in things most people believe in, cause it gives us a sense of reassurance that something is good. When in doubt about what to order in a restaurant we ask the waiter--"What would you recommend?"…

Friday was a day of significant gains for U.S. stocks, after the Labor Department’s reported the U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs during December, well above the consensus forecast of a 182,000 increase among economists polled by MarketWatch. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +3.29% jumped 747…

There is no playbook that can teach us a surefire way on attaining success. The best playbook is learning from the ones who have risked it all and continue to risk it all to garner that success. Although every entrepreneur has their own unique journey, integrating those valuable lessons can help you…

General Motors Co.’s self-driving car unit, Cruise, and DoorDash plan to provide food deliveries via autonomous vehicles, the latest attempt to use driverless technology to improve the shipment of goods. The program, scheduled to start in March, will include meals from restaurants. The companies…

Aerial view of surfers in the ocean at the Baleal beach in Peniche, Portugal Getty Change is no longer just an event or process — it’s a skill. Not too long ago, change happened less frequently. And when it did occur, employees often panicked in response as they focused on simply surviving the…

Credit: Getty Royalty Free Malcolm Gladwell has built a career out of sifting through dry research, unearthing overlooked ideas and presenting them in appealing or novel ways for readers or customers. He is best-known for writing regarded nonfiction books like Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point,…