Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 2, 2017 12:17 a.m. ET Share Pioneering website renamed as of Tuesday By Lukas I. Alpert About.com is about to become something else. The all-purpose, general interest website…

Legal Managing Risk: Keep a Target Off Your Back While Constructing Your Business Particularly in construction, the risks of not focusing early on the fundamentals can quickly stymie growth and sustainability. May 1, 2017 by Russell McEwan Risk management. It’s not something you thought you would…

Home-sharing sites Airbnb Inc. and Expedia Inc.’s EXPE, +2.15% HomeAway have reached a settlement with San Francisco that makes it easier for rental hosts to register with the city and helps the companies avoid costly fines. The settlement ends a lawsuit filed in June by the two sites over rules…

Amazon.com Inc. boss Jeff Bezos briefly saw his net worth rocket over $80 billion for the first time ever this week, after his company’s stock rallied on upbeat quarterly results . Since that overnight pop on Thursday, however, his holdings have backed off enough to put him just under that mark at…

Apple Inc. reports sales in five segments, and only two grew in 2016. Software and services—comprising iTunes, the App Store, iCloud, Apple Care and Apple Pay—continued a steady climb by adding $4.5 billion in revenue last year, a 22.3% gain. When Apple AAPL, -0.10% reports earnings Tuesday…

This week, nearly 1,000 Reddit users offered advice to a wife and mother who has battled to overcome generations of poverty. This woman set the social-media site Reddit alight after posting her story about growing up in poverty and how she made sure that her own family would have a better chance at…

Alphabet Inc. awarded Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai nearly $200 million in total compensation in 2016, more than twice as much as any CEO of a publicly traded company tracked in the last two years. In its annual proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, filed Friday,…

Starbucks The Unicorn Frappuccino trended on Twitter, for positive and negative reasons Love it or hate it, Starbucks Corp. executives say the Unicorn Frappuccino was an “Instagrammable success” that “drove significant traffic” and provides a springboard for the Frappuccino Happy Hour launching next…

Since taking office, President Trump has tweeted 495 times from his personal account, and shows no signs of moderating his use of Twitter as a tool to communicate with his base -- and take on his critics and foes. But America’s “tweeter-in-chief” is slipping when it comes to the traction of his…

Home Industries Banking The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Apr 29, 2017 4:58 p.m. ET Share India’s cash crackdown: People aren’t bothering with credit cards -- they’re skipping right to mobile payments. Getty Images By Corinne Abrams Debiprasad Nayak…

Wall Street was set for a slightly lower open Friday, as investors braced for more earnings and a possible government shutdown, a day after Nasdaq closed at a fresh record high. A first reading on U.S. economic growth in the first quarter could also drive trading action later in the day. Futures for…

Amazon.com Inc. still refuses to buy back its own stock, even as the stock’s continued surge to record highs suggests investors don’t agree. The e-commerce giant disclosed Friday in its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it didn’t repurchase any common stock during the…

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The Practical Employer The Top 6 Employee Handbook Mistakes These things should never happen in creating your employee manual. April 27, 2017 by Yesterday, I had a pleasure of presenting a webinar for The Builder’s Exchange: For your viewing pleasure and educational enlightenment, I’ve embedded it…

Anthony Levandowski, the man at the center of Uber Technologies Inc.’s legal spat with rival Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +0.29% GOOGL, +0.26% over allegedly stolen self-driving car technology, is stepping aside as chief of the high-profile project. Levandowski said in a note to staff Thursday that while the…