Home Industries Media The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 2, 2016 5:23 p.m. ET Share Nick Denton fires back over Peter Thiel’s ‘vendetta’ Reuters “People want to know what the powerful are doing,” said Nick Denton, founder of Gawker. By Greg Bensinger…

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Imagine that, as a recruiter, you’ve thinned the applicant pool down to two equally qualified candidates. There’s candidate A, with an Ivy League diploma, excellent recommendations and a spiffy internship. And then there’s candidate B, from a state school, with employment gaps and odd jobs like…

Shutterstock “I’m struggling to stay on top of my job. There doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get everything done, and I fear it might cost me a promotion. I am not sure I can juggle a family and my career.” This was the lament I heard from a young executive worried about her future. I…

Home Industries Computers/Electronics The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 1, 2016 11:39 p.m. ET Share CEO Chuck Robbins changes roles for four execs Bloomberg News Cisco Systems Inc. signage at the company's headquarters in San Jose, California. By Don…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 1, 2016 5:40 p.m. ET Share Uber, now valued at $66 billion, creating strong ties with Saudi Arabia Shutterstock.com Uber now has more than $11 billion in cash. By Douglas…

Many organizations have embraced Office 365—with all of the perks and benefits it includes . The cloud-based components of Office 365 introduce some unique security concerns as well, though, so Microsoft has developed Office 365 Advanced Security Management to address those concerns and enable…

Question: What do Cirque du Soleil, Tupperware, footballer Robin van Persie and explorer Ernest Shackleton have in common? Answer: They all apparently have something to teach us about executive behavior and leadership . As do cricketer Kevin Pietersen, the late British Labour Party politician Tony…

While Americans tend to dislike most cable companies, one company garners more of their dislike than the others. According to a survey of more than 12,710 customers released Wednesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Mediacom — a cable, internet and phone company that serves over 1,500…

June 4, the day China hopes the world will forget, comes this year with the usual memorials in spots sympathetic to the pro-democracy protesters who died on that date 27 years ago under gunfire from troops sent by the Beijing government. Hundreds have marched in Hong Kong and events are being…

Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler Teach your kids about online security before they get the wrong idea. Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler . See more cartoons: The Ultimate First World Problem

Shutterstock Marketing tools and techniques shift at dramatic speeds. Social media channels and best practices seem to change daily, and new analytics reveal updated facts and stats constantly. Falling behind in marketing knowledge is not an option, so marketers are pressured to be on their toes…

Leases can be full of fine print, but a move by one Salt Lake City apartment complex may have apartment dwellers reading their next one very carefully before signing on the dotted line. City Park Apartments presented tenants with a “Facebook Addendum” late last week that requires them to like the…

A member of the Taiwan air force looks out a window from a C-130 transport plane during a visit to Taiping island in the South China Sea on Mar. 23. (Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images) Here is the problem, simply put: there are not enough analysts to make sense of every ship or activity at sea; nor enough…

Ed Ho holds his VISA credit cards at his office in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Consumers used their credit cards more in March, marking only the second increase in the more than two years since the height of the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Imagine you’re a 20-something…

Home Industries Automobiles The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 30, 2016 1:51 p.m. ET Share Silicon Valley company aims to have self-driving cars on roads by 2020 By Mike Ramsey The backer of a Silicon Valley autonomous car developer called Zoox said…

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It’s a mistake to think that a waiter’s job is primarily to deliver food. This is one of the primary lessons I get across in my customer service training sessions for restaurant waitstaff: that waiting tables is a multifaceted art form that includes providing guests with feelings of recognition,…

The pricing of five initial public offerings late Wednesday marks the busiest day for IPO activity this year and experts say it’s a strong signal of a rebound in the market. U.S. Foods Holding Corp. USFD, +0.31% led the pack in terms of deal size, raising $1.02 billion. The food distribution company…

It’s been an intense week, now that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel was revealed to have been secretly funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuits against Gawker, a move that critics say raises concerns about press freedom. Google had a victory in court over Oracle, when a federal jury determined that…

First a response to Kirsty Russell, of Fawkham in the United Kingdom. I’m not surprised you’ve heard nothing from officials with Breitling, after you complained about the inappropriate sex-toy-like display at a Breitling shop in your neighborhood. Display at a Breitling store in the UK In its…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 26, 2016 8:19 p.m. ET Share Communications company valued at around $1 billion Getty Images Twilio Inc. co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson appears at TechCrunch Disrupt London in…

MarketWatch rounds up 10 of its most interesting articles published over the past week. 1. Here’s where President Obama will live after leaving the White House After he leaves the White House next January, President Obama and his family will remain in Washington, D.C. Sally French created a…

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This article is by Anthea Kelsick, strategy director at bluemarlin , a global brand design consultancy. For two decades now, aspiration has been the watchword of branding. Sell people the story of who they want to be, the logic goes, and the brand wins an unmovable place in their hearts. At one…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 25, 2016 8:41 p.m. ET Share $400 million deal tightens cloud-computing partnership Bloomberg News By using Amazon servers, Salesforce says it will be able to expand quicker and…

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal jury ruled that Google’s use of Oracle Corp.’s Java software didn’t violate copyright law, the latest twist in a six-year legal battle between the two Silicon Valley titans. Oracle ORCL, +1.00% sued Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +0.04% GOOGL, +0.06% , in 2010 for…

Most companies lack people in positions of power with the experience and confidence required to challenge the status quo. Here’s how companies can build the capacity for strategic leaders. For further insights, read “ 10 Principles of Strategic Leadership .”

Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes more details on the upcoming glass-covered iPhone 8, the latest iPhone 7 leaks, iOS 10′s new features, Tim Cook taking about high iPhone prices, an iPhone 6 prototype appearing on Ebay, the AI strategy that…

Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has reportedly been secretly funding pro wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media LLC. Forbes on Tuesday reported that Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal PYPL, +0.10% and an outspoken Silicon Valley figure, has been covering legal expenses for the…

As it happens with so many things in life, big data has not only come to human resources, but it’s also rapidly making its way from the HR executive suite to the HR trenches. What could go wrong? Whether you call it “big data,” “small data” or “HR analytics,” odds are that HR pros in your…

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Some of the challenges faced by businesses are perennial – finding customers, securing investment, hiring the right people – but others are very much a product of the…

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