The Chinese are on a U.S. buying spree like no other. Since the beginning of the year, Chinese investors have announced interest in, or closed on, several multi-billion-dollar deals on a variety of American enterprises, including GE’s appliance division, Strategic Hotels & Resorts (owner of…

Target Corp. is expected to announce second-quarter earnings Wednesday before the market opens. Aside from the issues plaguing most retail companies — competition with Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.76% , unstable weather patterns, shifting consumer habits — Target TGT, +0.32% is also facing hurdles in…

At Whit's End Lights, Camera, Diversity Action FX CEO John Landgraf and CBS Boss Glenn Geller prove that it’s possible to make the entertainment industry more diverse fairly quickly — on and off the screen. August 15, 2016 by

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Elise Runde Voss, UpScored Co-Founder and CEO. Photo credit: Joanne Pio All startups face the uphill battle of acquiring customers, a challenge that’s particularly difficult in a crowded category. UpScored launched publicly in May and aims to provide personalized job matching, connecting candidates…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 15, 2016 4:13 a.m. ET Share High-speed internet business turning out to be more time-consuming, expensive than planned Bloomberg News/Landov Pedestrians walk past Google Inc.'s…

Home Economy & Politics The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 13, 2016 7:42 p.m. ET Share Reuters U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer takes the stage to speak on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25. By Damian Paletta…

Loan approval rates at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) declined slightly for the first time in six months in July 2016, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index ™, the monthly analysis of more than 1,000 small business loan applications on Biz2Credit.com. Last month, big banks…

Consumers are financially healthy but nervous about the state of the world, and that is stopping them from spending freely. That’s one theme to emerge from the second-quarter earnings season, according to Goldman Sachs, whose analysts were taking stock Friday of what companies have had to say about…

Until recently, Agile was seen as a set of management practices relevant to software development. That’s because Agile’s initial advocates were software developers and its foundational document was the Manifesto for Software Development of 2001. Fifteen years later in 2016, following recognition by…

Getty Images The Uber app logo on an iPhone. New York commuters are getting comfier about sharing cars with strangers. Since May, more than 100,000 people in Manhattan have used Via — a New York-based app that plots routes for big, roomy SUVs to pick up and drop off multiple passengers along single…

A worker at a Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. (Dennis Brack/Bloomberg News) In this era of Wikileaks, Snowden disclosures, OPM breaches, DNC hacks and a myriad other breaches and data releases, is government secrecy finally dead? In a world in which disenchanted insiders or hackers from…

Napster co-founder, Sean Parker, General Partner of Founders Fund, talks at LeWeb 11 event in Saint-Denis, suburbs of Paris, on December 9, 2011. AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images) In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always…

The public market may be ready for startups, but fear will likely keep tech “unicorns” away from the public markets until at least early 2017. A depressed market for initial public offerings struck in the first half of 2016, with the number of deals falling 55% from the previous year amid market…

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Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shot up to a 1 1/2-year high in active trade Friday, after the China-based e-commerce giant was upgraded at Raymond James, which cited strong quarterly results and an attractive valuation. Aaron Kessler, analyst at Raymond James, raised his rating to a strong…

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A MICROS sign stands outside the MICROS Systems Inc. headquarters building in Columbia, Maryland, U.S., on Monday, June 23, 2014. The Oracle-owned company is one of six retailers to have suffered a breach at the hands of the same hackers. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg. Hackers have breached…

Wellness Employers Can Swat Zika Concerns with Education Push The Zika virus may cause fear in your employees, but educating them and taking preventative measures is key in protecting the workforce while keeping employees calm. August 12, 2016 by

Dollar General is committed to showing the world’s largest retailer that it can fill some pretty big shoes. The value-price chain in July acquired 41 former Walmart Express stores, and in doing so laid the groundwork for adding a new concept to its portfolio – larger-format stores. It is the exact…

The Jensen Quality Growth Fund has been one of the best-performing large-cap growth funds over the past few years, even as the stock market has hit plenty of potholes and many other active fund managers have lagged behind the market. The fund focuses on just a modest number of high-conviction picks,…

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 11, 2016 8:07 p.m. ET Share New method to rank ‘most informative’ posts for users Bloomberg News Facebook polls tens of thousands of people worldwide for its Feed Quality…

It’s hard to not be impressed lately by Amazon.com Inc. Shares are up 14% year-to-date, more than the broader market, and up about 60% from the lows of around $480 in February. And of course, Amazon AMZN, -0.76% was one of the top performers in the S&P 500 SPX, +0.02% last year with a return of…

The Practical Employer Are Your DOL Posters Up to Date? As with all posters, a covered employer must display each in a prominent and conspicuous place. August 11, 2016 by

A Myles self-driving car renter in India. Photo courtesy of Myles. Car rental company Myles is proving that next gen India is thinking quite differently from their parents when it comes to cars and whether to own one or not. The Indian automotive industry is one of the largest in the world,…

The data center is fundamentally changing. Yet today, as before, every company in the world is building their own data center. That makes about as much sense as every company building their own furniture or generating their own power. It’s inefficient, and it’s a big diversion of limited corporate…

Jet.com Inc. pitches itself as a lower-priced alternative to Amazon.com Inc., partly by not tacking on sales taxes in most states. But tax experts say Jet’s sale to retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, +0.32% could jeopardize that price advantage by forcing it to collect taxes nationwide. A 1992…

Welcome to “Negotiate This,” where we’re telling true stories of how using collaborative negotiation can expand what is possible. We ask women entrepreneurs and leaders to share their stories of how creativity and collaboration led to successful, win-win deals. In these true stories names have been…

Crisis or regulation would appear the only things that will compel banks to change their behaviour. So, with this in mind, can a shake-up in UK retail banking really be instigated after a British financial watchdog announced that new phone-based apps could help customers find banks offering the…

You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes . Howard Leonhardt is the co-inventor of the TALENT stent acquired by Medtronic MDT -0.72% and used to treat over 200,000 patients. With boundless optimism, 20 patents issued and more pending, he has launched Leonhardt Ventures to form…

Yelp Inc. seems to be turning around, reporting an unexpected profit on Tuesday fueled by strong sales of local ads, giving credence to changing sentiment on Wall Street toward the company. Earlier Tuesday, online review pioneer Yelp YELP, -2.69% reported a slight net profit of one cent a share,…

Ro Kohli/War Machine Marketing To say that Ro Kohli does not look like your typical corporate executive would be an understatement. With his mohawk, tattoos referencing such properties as Roman Dirge’s Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl, and frequently favored T-shirt choices of mash-ups involving…

Editor's Notebook Timing Symbolic of Job Boards’ Decline as Randstad Acquires Monster The Big 3 — HotJobs, Monster and CareerBuilder — are now just one as the European staffing firm spends $429 million. August 9, 2016 by

Imagine falling from a plane with a parachute strapped to your back, dropping 120 miles per hour toward the tiny green-hued patches of land that populate the planet below you, all the while hoping that parachute is in good working order. The experience is exhilarating. Albeit, not for everyone. But…