Google Inc. is widening the competitive field by including integrations for nine ride-hailing options in the Google Maps app. Alphabet’s GOOG, +0.04% GOOGL, +0.06% Google said Thursday that it is adding Lyft and Gett to its slate of ride-hailing options, which already includes Uber, on iOS and…

By Christine Bailey (Photo courtesy of Pexels) At school when I was 16-years-old, I was told that something I wanted to do was only for stupid girls. Luckily I had the support of a great teacher who broke the rules and made it happen for me. That started me on a journey of recognizing how important…

Private equity firms have always found a sweet spot in buying business lines that are spun-off from corporate giants. These so-called ‘carve outs’ play into the wheelhouse of PE buyers who have the cash to quickly take a business off the hands of a restructuring corporate titan, and it is the…

Shares in Japan’s Nintendo Co. rallied on Thursday following its announcement of a new mobile game featuring the iconic Mario character, though broader stocks performance across Asia was mixed. As the Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.49% fell 0.3% as the yen USDJPY, +0.45% continued to strengthen…

Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images “Life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half step too late or too early, you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast, and you don’t quite catch it.…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Sept 7, 2016 4:50 p.m. ET Share Arbitration-clause ruling reduces size of class-action lawsuit Shutterstock.com Wednesday’s ruling came in a lawsuit challenging Uber’s…

With no scheduled maintenance planned, Sony’s online gaming network is offline for the second time this month. The first time the PlayStation Network went down this month was on September 1st, following an August 26th outage just days earlier. The outage today comes on the eve of Sony’s big…

New Entrants and Converging Industries In our initial blog on Europe’s energy transition , we discussed seven megatrends that are fundamentally changing how we produce and use power. This blog discusses how converging industries and new entrants are changing our industry, specifically focusing on…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 6, 2016 8:47 p.m. ET Share Company prices shares at $14 to $16 apiece By Patience Haggin Ad-buying platform The Trade Desk Inc. revealed an estimated price range for its…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 29: The Google logo is displayed on the new Nexus 5X phone during a Google media event on September 29, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Google released a bunch of Android patches today , covering off some previously-disclosed…

The Practical Employer Associational Disability Discrimination Claims Are Rare, Yet Dangerous One employer in New Mexico learned an expensive and necessary lesson: Caregivers have rights. September 6, 2016 by

After spending a week at Huawei’s first all-customer Connect 2016 conference in Shanghai, it’s hard not to come away impressed by both the Chinese technology juggernaut’s depth of innovation as well as its breadth of product offerings. Huawei’s greatest strengths may lie in its telecom and consumer…

One might think that Sebastian Thrun, known in Silicon Valley as the father of the self-driving car, would be questioning his move away from the technology as autonomous cars become more than a pie-in-the-sky dream. “‘You had the coolest job on the planet, why are you doing this?’” Thrun said he is…

Much as designing customer experience has dominated the thinking of companies competing in today’s digital environment, organizations are now reexamining their employee experience. Technology can help companies take a personalized approach. September 5, 2016 by

Hot trends in corporate culture and management technique evolve from decade to decade, often in alignment with prevailing social trends. Recently, the “empowered workplace” has become popular, especially among tech-oriented companies. In empowered workplaces, many of the rigid rules of conduct such…

Getty Images A stronger economy puts more cars on the road for longer, helping push up driving fatalities. Because American drivers are logging increased mileage and some are texting while driving, about 9% more died in vehicle crashes in the first six months of 2016 than in the same stretch last…

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As Zenefits showed, a platform’s woes can affect its customers. How can companies protect themselves as they move HR processes to the cloud? September 4, 2016 by

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Seven years into a bull market for U.S. stocks, we’re seeing warnings every day that valuations may be too high. But the economic news is mostly positive , and many big retailers are increasing sales and widening profit margins. Earnings season is nearly over, and analysts polled by S&P Global…

College football season has, at long last returned, and that means that many Americans will be following their favorite teams trials and tribulations on a weekly basis. I know that I will. Anyone who knows me understands that there are two things that get me going: growing my company and Arizona…

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Cartoon by Keith Knight Use of police dogs have been in the news because of a guy in Ohio who got 45 years for killing one . I got to thinking that police puppies would be a far safer, and more pleasant way to seek justice. Cartoon by Keith Knight .

Apple Inc. activated a long-existing but never used Twitter Inc. account Friday, and just after noon Pacific time, its first “tweet” hyped its expected iPhone debut next week. September 7 at 10 a.m. PT Watch the event on https://t.co/yLa2e4Xr2R . RT for a reminder on event day. #AppleEvent…

(L to R) Moderator and Internet entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, Chemi Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango Venture Capital, Edouard Cukierman, founder and Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments, Adam Singolda, founder and CEO of Taboola, Amit Lang, Director General at the Israeli…

Retirement Benefits HR’s Robo Connection to Retirement Benefits Some companies are turning to robo-advisers to help workers manage their 401(k)s, but not everyone’s sold on the technology. September 2, 2016 by

Home General National news The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 1, 2016 7:04 p.m. ET Share ‘Guccifer’ admitted hacking about 100 Americans Reuters Marcel Lazar Lehel is escorted by policemen in Bucharest, Romania, after being arrested in 2014. By Kate…

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Same-sex couples have faced no shortage of obstacles on their path towards equality in this country: religious dogma, deep-rooted bigotry, and eight seasons of Will & Grace have proven hard to overcome. But overcome they have, as evidenced by two recent landmark court cases that have dramatically…

Pexels.com When I launched my business, RealtyMogul.com , I knew I was onto something big. I could see the way the JOBS Act of 2012 would open up crowdfunding to a wider audience than ever before, and I knew from working with my mother that the world of real estate was ready for disruption. She was…

By the time I’m 66 years old, roads will be filled with autonomous cars, I’ll have a holographic avatar for a personal assistant and my grandkids will be traveling the world while never leaving the classroom, thanks to the magic of augmented reality. Oh, and assuming I carry my fashion-forward…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 31, 2016 8:46 p.m. ET Share Company says Wednesday it underestimated severity of breach Shutterstock 68 million Dropbox usernames and passwords were stolen in 2012. By Robert…

Whether it’s in response to an upcoming presentation, interview, round of layoffs, new position, or networking meeting , anxiety is an emotion we encounter repeatedly throughout our careers (and…lives). It’s not a comfortable experience, and it’s not meant to be. Anxiety is an evolutionarily…

Cynthia Wade Having won an Academy Award for her acclaimed HBO documentary Freeheld in 2008, Cynthia Wade more recently turned her attentions towards the ups and downs of entrepreneurial pursuits. Her fascinating, new film ’ Generation Startup ‘ tells the stories of a group of young college…

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A partnership offering discounts on Wells Fargo student loans to members of Amazon Prime Student has abruptly — and quietly — ended. An Amazon AMZN, -0.76% spokeswoman confirmed in an email to MarketWatch that the company is no longer offering the student loan promotion, which allowed Prime Student…