Since 1913, Texas had been the only state generally accepted as allowing employers to opt out of the workers’ compensation system. One hundred years later, in 2013, Oklahoma enacted legislation seeking to give its employers the same option. Provisions in the Oklahoma version sought to protect…

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 17, 2016 10:41 p.m. ET Share Streaming service to be stand-alone option for first time Getty Images Creator/executive producer Jill Soloway attends the Season 2 premiere of…

Call it the power of social media. Cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holding Inc. said Friday it has abandoned a plan to allow texting at select theaters after the proposal was slammed on social media. AMC said in a tweet there will be “NO TEXTING AT AMC,” using capital letters to hammer home the…

SunEdison Inc.’s stock plunged in heavy volume Friday, reversing the previous session’s surge, after investors were reminded that the renewable energy company could go bankrupt at any moment. The company disclosed in a filing Friday that it had entered into “confidentiality agreements” last month…

Alexis Glick, left, is the CEO of GENYOUth Foundation and Erin Fitzgerald Sexton is senior vice president of global sustainability at the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. Quick: What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think about an innovative field? Let me guess, the first thing…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 14, 2016 9:30 p.m. ET Share Investors growing wary of on-demand sector By Cat Zakrzewski San Francisco-based Shuddle Inc., an on-demand ride service for children, said it would…

Home General The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 13, 2016 7:44 p.m. ET Share Tensions between Washington, Silicon Valley may escalate Bloomberg News Califfornia Sen. Dianne Feinstein is circulating a proposal that tech companies won’t like. By Damian…

Employers filed approximately 236,000 petitions for H-1B guestworker visas for fiscal year (FY) 2017, a lower total than some were predicting, but still surpassing last year’s record by 3,000, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). U.S. employers generally use the H-1B visa…

You don't have to be in managerial role to be a leader. Follow these tips to inspire your colleagues and reap the benefits of a happier workplace.

A national nonprofit is partnering with community colleges around the country to develop a retail certification program that prepares primarily low-income students for successful careers in the service industry. Hiring for the service industry can often feel like a numbers game where high turnover…

Facebook Inc. plans to eventually make an augmented reality device so small it might one day resemble a pair of glasses. The company unveiled this Google Glass-like aspiration along with drones, solar-powered planes and bots as part of a 10-year road map for the company on Tuesday. In a nod to the…

The crowded field of salary comparison platforms has a new entry seeking to provide tech candidates with an advantage in compensation negotiations. Paysa is the latest in a series of companies to bring salary data into the mainstream. The company, which launched in February and recently secured $4…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 11, 2016 7:05 p.m. ET Share Coalition could ease transit for overseas travelers Getty Images Lyft is teaming up with Didi Kuaidi. By Douglas MacMillan Customers of Chinese…

Most small companies use either a follow-the-leader approach to building their sourcing and recruiting processes or one based on fixing the current problem. However, neither approach works very well since they’re both reactive. With a follow-the-leader approach, you’re too late to make much of a…

Today, humans cram more data into our brains in a single day than our ancestors did during an entire lifetime. On average, in one day, we view Google 7.2 billion times, send 247 billion emails, and upload 48 hours of video to YouTube each minute (Psy’s “Gangnam Style” is the most watched). The…

The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Daily Mail & General Trust PLC DMGT, +0.34% , whose main interest is Yahoo’s news and media…

Bad spelling can cost you. While 8 in 10 American adults consider themselves good spellers, 7 in 10 say they often find spelling mistakes in written correspondence from others, according to a recent survey of the grammar gripes of more than 2,000 adults by Dictionary.com. When given a list of…

Remember a while back when Netflix was a total bro and let current subscribers keep their lower monthly subscription rate instead of charging the higher rate that new customers received? That’s changing next month. In 2014, Netflix raised the price of its monthly standard streaming plan from $7.99…

The positive hiring trend seen over the last six years is forecast to continue, according to recently released labor market outlooks for the second quarter of the year. CareerBuilder’s Q2 2016 U.S. Job Forecast shows that 34 percent of employers plan to add full-time employees over the next three…

John Flavin is executive director of the Chicago Innovation Exchange at the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago has a long history of innovation. Without a doubt, the most powerful and influential innovation that ever came out of the school had nothing and everything to do with a…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Apr 7, 2016 8:28 p.m. ET Share District attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles claimed customers were misled Getty Images By Douglas MacMillan Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to pay…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services By Published: Apr 6, 2016 9:39 p.m. ET Share More areas in central New Jersey, Los Angeles included AFP/Getty Images By Mike Murphy Editor Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.76% on Wednesday expanded its Prime free same-day delivery service to 11 more metropolitan…

BERLIN — Germany’s premium car makers Audi AG NSU, +0.44% , BMW AG BMW, +1.19% and Daimler AG DAI, +1.36% , which owns Mercedes-Benz, are in talks with Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.76% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.88% that could lead to the tech giants taking minority stakes in the HERE digital mapping…

Forget just working with your colleagues, how about living with them? Co-working space WeWork said Monday that it is opening up a New York co-living space that offers flexible terms for entrepreneurial tenants. The move expands the empire of the company, valued at $16 billion, while also offering…

While compensation is still a critical motivator for job candidates when making career decisions, the type of work they’ll be doing has now surpassed salary as the most important consideration, according to a survey report released by ManpowerGroup Solutions. The Milwaukee-based global recruitment…

The space startup headed by Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.76% Chairman Jeff Bezos has taken another big step toward demonstrating the reliability of his reusable rocket: successfully landing it after waiting until almost the last second to restart the main engine that slows the returning booster for…

“Y-O-F**KING-LO,” the teen wrote, flashing his trading statement. “900 to 55K in 12 days!” On Reddit, he’s known as “World Chaos,” a Florida high schooler who earlier this year multiplied his money by betting against the S&P 500. His real name is Jeffrey Rozanski, and the 18-year-old’s appetite for…

Postponing the tax until 2020 gives Congress more time to assess its potential effect on employers and employees.

Think you have what it takes to become a chief human resources officer (CHRO)? If your phone and e-mail have not been blowing up recently with overtures from recruiters, it might be because organizations keep raising the bar for potential CHROs.

A consortium of Chinese companies has bid $1.2 billion in cash to buy Opera Software ASA, a Norwegian maker of Internet browsers, the latest sign of how a weakening currency hasn't affected China's appetite for acquisitions.

David Sacks took Parker Conrad's place as Zenefits' CEO.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it identified an automated attack on its computer systems aimed at getting information that could be used to steal tax refunds.

Stock markets in Asia were lower and Japanese government bond yields hit record lows after concerns about the health of banking and energy companies led to selloffs overnight.

Quicken Loans' Rocket Mortgage claims to offer an 8-minute mortgage, but it will probably take longer than that - and that's okay.