Residents of Austin, Texas, voted May 7 to keep strict background checks, including fingerprinting, for drivers working for popular ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft. In late 2015, the Austin City Council passed an ordinance requiring ride-hailing companies to be regulated like taxis and requiring…

U.S. employers laid off 65,141 workers in April 2016, according to the latest report from global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. April’s job cuts increased by 35 percent month-over-month and were nearly 6 percent higher than the 61,582 cuts reported in April 2015. Layoffs for…

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: May 8, 2016 8:36 p.m. ET Share Tech firm worried about being too close to intelligence agencies Getty Twitter is blocking access to the Dataminr service. By Christopher S.…

The impact of social media on consumers and businesses alike today is as profound as the rise of Google 15 years ago. Some companies have successfully embraced what I call Social Business and have re-architected their customer engagement strategies and even business models to seize the opportunity…

FireEye, Inc. — one of the world’s largest pure-play cybersecurity firms — announced a new CEO yesterday. Kevin Mandia, FireEye’s new CEO. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu In its Q1 2016 earnings report – which is transcribed by Seeking Alpha – FireEye introduced Kevin Mandia as their new CEO, succeeding Dave…

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Home Industries Telecommunications The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 6, 2016 6:57 p.m. ET Share The $55 billion deal will create the second-biggest broadband provider, third-largest pay-TV company in the U.S. Bloomberg By Josh Beckerman The Federal…

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The U.S. economy added 160,000 jobs in April 2016, dampening expectations that the labor market could match the robust gains of the previous two months. The payroll counts for February and March were also revised down, however. The jobs gain for March was lowered from a hearty 215,000 to 208,000,…

Last year Lisa Skeete Tatum found herself at a crossroads in her career. A chemical engineer, who had spent more than a decade as a general partner with Cardinal Partners (a $350+ million early stage healthcare venture capital firm), she was looking to change things up. At Cardinal she focused on…

Craig Wright claimed to be Bitcoin mastermind Satoshi Nakamoto. But he’s now backed down from offering real proof. Either Craig Wright’s website has been hacked or he has issued a stunning apology that he can no longer offer proof he is the creator of cryptocurrency Bitcoin, the almost-mythical…

Laws banning the use of credit checks during the hiring process are hurting some of the very people they’re supposed to be helping, according to a recently released study. While employment for people with the lowest credit scores has increased due to the bans, black applicants, applicants under the…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: May 5, 2016 9:42 p.m. ET Share Acqui-hire of firm specializing in online content distribution Bloomberg News/Landov LinkedIn Corp. beat earnings and outlook estimates last week. By…

YouTube is reportedly ready to compete with cable TV providers by offering a paid subscription bundle of streaming TV channels as soon as next year. Bloomberg News reported Wednesday that YouTube, a division of Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +0.04% GOOGL, +0.06% Google business, has been working on the…

It would be easy to call Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte the reason crime became a top campaign issue. He’s known as a law-and-order mayor of the Southeast Asian country’s second-largest city Davao, where some believe he has even tolerated extrajudicial killings to clean up the…

HR and IT: The Dynamic Duo in Fighting Cybersecurity Risks The rise of mobile and cloud technology has amped up the need for cybersecurity. Experts says coordinated efforts between HR and IT are important. May 4, 2016 by

Home Industries Internet/Online Services By and Published: May 3, 2016 5:10 p.m. ET Share Company plans to eliminate 171 jobs, two top execs leaving By Telis Demos Peter Rudegeair Prosper Marketplace Inc., one of the biggest upstart online consumer lenders, is cutting about 28% of its staff, while…

A month ago, Workforce employment law columnist and blogger Jon Hyman wrote in his “Practical Employer” blog that the producers for Broadway’s “Hamilton” could not claim race as a “bona fide occupational qualification” when sending a casting call out for nonwhite actors. He was right that they can’t…

In move that will affect millions of freelancers, the giant online marketplace Upwork announced today that it is changing the fees it charges workers to find projects on the platform, to prioritize high-value, ongoing work. Instead of its current 10% flat fee, Upwork is moving to a sliding scale.…

Once more the start of the month comes round, and Google updates the Android Developer dashboard with the latest percentage shares of each major version of Android on active devices. May’s numbers show Android Marshmallow (the sixth major version of Android) has seen a rise of 2.9 percent from last…

Cat herder. Mind reader. Order taker. No, these aren’t the ways talent acquisition professionals can make an impact, but these are the roles other people in the organization expect them to play, according to Kara Yarnot, founder and president of Meritage Talent Solutions, based in Washington, D.C.…

Whenever there is a case about taxpayers taking a huge charitable contribution for promising to leave their golf course a golf course, the first thing that always pops into my head is Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn’s poem: “The golf links lie so near the mill/That almost every day/The laboring children…

Two-thirds of employers plan to hire from this year’s crop of college graduates, up 2 percentage points from 2015 and representing the rosiest outlook in a decade, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder. The national survey of 2,186 hiring managers and human resource professionals conducted…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: May 1, 2016 10:45 p.m. ET Share New service would compete with cable TV Hulu A selection of current TV shows featured on Hulu Plus. By Joe Flint Shalini Ramachandran Hulu is…

Hacked By Def Con Press Preview during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. (Rob Kim/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival) Cybersecurity headlines this week have been filled with emerging details of the February 2016 cyber theft of 81 million dollars from the Bangladesh central bank’s…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 30, 2016 3:33 p.m. ET Share Bloomberg News Twitter Inc. headquarters in San Francisco. By Alejandro Lazo SAN FRANCISCO — Lucho Cabrera, a 53-year-old formerly homeless man,…

It’s been a crazy week for hacks! Minecraft was hacked. The dating site “Beautiful People” was hacked . The music app Spotify was likely hacked (again), though the company denies it. The hackers who stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank likely compromised SWIFT software . A software…

Stocks fell on Friday as blue-chip tech shares dragged on the market, but the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average clung to April gains to score the second monthly rise in a row. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.02% slid 10.51 points, or 0.5%, to close at 2,065.30 on the back of big losses in the…

Bloomberg News/Landov LinkedIn’s first-quarter earnings surprise only partially returned the company back to Wall Street’s graces, after last quarter’s bomb , as concerns about its slowing growth remain among investors. After initially being overjoyed by its earnings beat, LinkedIn investors drove…

A world arbitration court will rule in in May or June on a fractious maritime dispute between China and the Philippines. The five-person Permanent Court of Arbitration, after seven hearings, is studying now whether China’s claim to a giant tropical ocean flouts UN conventions. Manila said that when…

Employers frequently want to hire talented employees who are bound by post-employment restrictive covenants (e.g., noncompetes, or customer/employee nonsolicitation covenants). Often, a plain reading of the prospective hire’s agreement raises questions about whether joining your company would…

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