What exactly is "Democratization of Disaster Recovery"? In the IT world, disaster recovery is the ability for an organization to return to operations in the event of, well, a disaster. In my IT experience, my concerns were focused on hurricanes and earthquakes (I was in IT for the States of Florida…

You can read the full version of Richard’s letter at The Moneyist Facebook Group. Dear Moneyist, When I was 6 years old my parents split and there was a nasty divorce. They were both teachers and were working in the Bahamas in the 1960s. There was a custody dispute and I was kidnapped by my father…

Bad news for your caffeine habit: coffee can cause cancer. Brewed coffee has high levels of acrylamide, a chemical shown in some studies to cause cancer — and now coffee chains in California must warn their customers, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Friday. “Cancer warning labels on coffee would be…

As the tech sector takes a header, the key question for stock-market bulls revolves around how much its leadership really matters for the broader market. Technology shares were under pressure again Wednesday, with megacap companies putting in a mixed performance a day after succumbing to a…

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday ordered Uber Technologies Inc. to suspend testing autonomous vehicles on public roadways in the state, a blow to the company’s development efforts after one of its self-driving cars stuck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe. Ducey, a Republican who welcomed Uber’s…

Facebook has been the target of intense criticism over how it shares data with third-party companies, and the social media giant may know more about users than previously thought. The company reportedly stored logs of calls and text messages made by users with Android devices, the tech blog Ars…

Facebook Inc. took out full-page ads in nine newspapers in the U.S. and the U.K. on Sunday and apologized for “a breach of trust” following the Cambridge Analytica data-privacy scandal. “You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of…

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is acting more like a politician. After days of silence on the scandal involving Cambridge Analytica and its use of user data, Zuckerberg finally spoke out Wednesday, giving a series of interviews in which he made similar statements about Facebook’s FB, -3.34%…

Dear Moneyist, My only son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, back in 2014. He underwent a 21-hour brain surgery and, thank God, he survived. Prior to this he was listed in my will to inherit everything, at my passing. His insurance at the time of this nightmare was Connecticut’s Husky D Plan. It’s…

For companies preparing to go public, the process is as much about proving what the business is not than it is about proving what the business is. That’s been the case for cloud-storage firm Dropbox Inc. DBX, +0.00% which officially filed for an initial public offering last month. Investors, burned…

YouTube said it would ban videos relating to the sale or assembly of guns and certain gun accessories, as tech giants face growing pressure to limit the promotion of firearms. The world’s largest video site, a division of Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, -0.16% GOOG, -0.62% Google, said this week it would…

The Practical Employer How Can You Transition Older Workers if You Can’t Force Them to Retire? With the exception of a few limited circumstances, mandatory retirement ages are about as close to a slam-dunk case of illegal age discrimination you can find. March 21, 2018 , A Michigan oral surgery…

Cambridge Analytica, a political advisory firm for the Trump campaign that's accused of siphoning data from more than 50 million Facebook users, has suspended its CEO Alexander Nix with “immediate effect.” The company, whose data-analytics and marketing tools could be used to identify people by…

Getty Images Toys ‘R’ Us’ liquidation comes after a series of strategic missteps, experts say Planning to shutter all of its U.S. stores may seem to be the biggest problem facing troubled retailer Toys ‘R’ Us, but the liquidation process will throw up a fresh set of major challenges, analysts and…

Kathy Griffin is back. The comedian sold out the lion’s share of the five-tier, 2,894-seat Stern Auditorium in New York’s iconic Carnegie Hall in just 24 hours. The tickets went on sale Friday morning for the June 26 show. On Saturday, just a few single seats in the upper tiers, seats with…

In my article We Need To Shut Bitcoin And All Other Cryptocurrencies Down. Here’s Why from last week, I made the argument that cryptomining (the transaction processing behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies) is so fraught with criminal enterprise that any crypto transaction unethically supports…

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking died Tuesday at the age of 76, and before he departed this world, he left us with warnings that Earth is headed for a “catastrophic ending” in the near future. This doom will not come from a fiery asteroid or even global warming, but from rising inequality fueled by…

Department of Labor Trying to Get Employees PAID for Inadvertent FLSA Violations The Department of Labor's pilot program PAID would permit employers to self-report FLSA violations to the DOL without risk of litigation or enforcement proceedings. March 12, 2018 , For almost as long as I’ve been…