The Wall Street Journal: The yin and yang of Twitter's tax breaks in San Francisco

Across the U.S., tensions over gentrification have given rise to community benefits agreements, which seek concessions from developers in exchange for community support for their projects. Activists hail such agreements when they benefit those likely to be displaced by neighborhood change.

How A Trio Of Immigrants May Dominate The Background Check Business

Onfido is leveling the playing field for migrants.

What The Bangladesh SWIFT Hack Teaches About The Future Of Cybersecurity And Cyberwar

How a cyberbank heist offers clues to what cybersecurity and cyberwarfare will look like in the coming years

Companies, Beware Your Photo and Recording Rules

Based on the NLRB's Whole Foods Market decision, companies might need to rethink policies about prohibiting photography and recording.

You Met the Tax Filing Deadline, Now What Are The Chances You Will Face An IRS Audit?

Thanks to continuing Congressional cuts in the IRS budget, fewer and fewer Americans will face an audit of their return. The IRS revenue from examinations has dropped by about 10 times the savings from the budget cuts. The cuts have resulted in a net loss of over $5 billion in 2015. Compliant taxpayers meanwhile continue to pay their proper taxes while those who game the system have the security of knowing that the IRS is unlikely to catch on to their game.

Security News You Might Have Missed: Waze Stalking, Email Privacy Act Passes House, More

Government requests for Facebook user data spike, awareness of mass surveillance led to plummeted Wikipedia traffic on entries related to terrorism, a former Tor developer now creates malware for the government to track Tor users, and more security news you might have missed this week.

Chobani Gives Employees Equity with Big Potential Value

Yogurt maker Chobani is giving its full-time workers equity awards that could be worth up to 10 percent of the privately held company's future value -- an ownership incentive move more often taken by startups and tech firms than by traditional companies.

Take Care When Recruiting from the Competition

Depending on your jurisdiction, deciding to hire an employee despite their post-employment restrictive covenants may involve taking a calculated risk that some parts of the post-employment restrictions are not enforceable.

UN Court Set To Rule On Philippines-China Sea Dispute; Beijing Set To Protest

A United Nations 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 it filed the case in 2013. The Philippines and four other Asian governments also claim much of the same South China Sea, which spans 3.5 million square kilometers from Taiwan to Singapore. A lot of the claims overlap, especially where China is involved. The sea holds reserves of undersea oil and natural gas, likewise ample fisheries and lanes for half the world's commercial shipping. That's why everyone cares.

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Can LinkedIn rise from the ashes?

After the fall of LinkedIn, is there any hope to renew the company's connection with Wall Street?

David Novak Talks Recognition Lessons

Yum Brands' former CEO, helped turn the company's fortunes around by focusing on employee recognition with the help of an ...

Boost Your Recruiting on 'Those Other' Social Media Sites

Everyone knows about the big three-LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. But the smaller, less traditional sites are emerging as alternative avenues for recruiters to introduce their companies to potential hires and to learn about them in return.

Wal-Mart Shoppers Hold An Impromptu Debate...And It's All Caught On Video

It's a Presidential election year, which means that debates about the issues affecting the country is at an all-time high…even in the checkout lines at Wal-Mart.

Preparing For The Inevitable Cyber Attack

Many organizations still misunderstand how to tackle cyber threats. In this podcast, two industry-leading experts talk to CEO Richard Fenning about the best ways to prepare for and respond to the inevitable cyber attack.

Mindfulness Is As Powerful As Anti-Depressants, New Study Says

Controversy has swirled around mindfulness. A new study says it's a very strong therapy.

Survey Ranks the Top 10 Entry-Level Jobs for Graduates

Judging from recent new-graduate pay surveys, the word Millennials should keep in mind is “engineering,” although, on the HR front, positions in employee relations and benefits administration also stand with attractive pay metrics.

Why Most IT Security Suffers From Unbalanced Spending

Like a stock portfolio, retirement plan, or any investment, enterprises must make decisions as to how to allocate funding for maximum return. I touched on this a few months ago in when I said that the goal is to get the most protection and greatest capability to detect intrusion for the money spent. Your security investment portfolio must be rebalanced as new options become available and new threats emerge.

When You're Tapped Before Age 30: 5 Behaviors That Burn Us Out

Common burnout prescriptions-like rest, medication and vacation-can temporarily relieve our symptoms. But until we permanently alter the behaviors exacerbating our exhaustion, we'll remain rutted.

Report Confirms Accelerated Growth in Wages

The U.S. labor market demonstrated its improvement in the first quarter of 2016 with discernible acceleration in wage growth, as employers react to a tightening labor market by boosting wages.

Can A Brooklyn Chocolate Maker With A Social Mission Stand Out From The Crowd?

The chocolate aisles are filled with attractively packaged bars promising delicious taste with a social or environmental mission. So how can a social enterprise in the chocolate business distinguish itself amid the shelves of well-intentioned rivals?
Tim McCollum, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar is the cofounder and CEO of Brooklyn-based Madécasse. He talks about why his social enterprise, which makes chocolate bars in the African island nation, is focusing on becoming a viable, for-profit business to fulfill its mission and distinguish itself on the retail shelves from its rivals.

Why It's Never Been Harder to Be an Ad Agency

There's seemingly no more difficult area to be operating these days than in advertising.

Uber settlement could net most drivers $24 or less

Uber Technologies settled a lawsuit claiming drivers should have been classified as employees for $100 million, but more than half of certified California drivers stand to receive just $24.

Better Pay and Benefits Loom Large in Job Satisfaction

The pick-up in economic growth over the past year has raised employees' expectations of higher pay and richer benefits, new research by the Society for Human Resource Management and others shows.

Apple's Absolute Advantage Over Android

A large part of the ongoing battle to keep a mobile device secure is to ensure that users' devices are kept up to date with patches for exploits, bug fixes, and keeping the software secure; then the latest numbers from the two main platforms show a huge chasm in the protection offered.

India Revokes Passport Of 'Panama Papers' Man Vijay Mallya

Vijay also reportedly buying up penthouses in midtown Manhattan.

Earnings Outlook: Apple investors brace for first decline in iPhone sales

Apple is expected to report second-quarter earnings after the market's close on Tuesday.

7 Surprisingly Common Interview Mistakes That Will Cost You the Job

Any of these goofs will send your application to the reject pile.

How Our Startup Simplified Our Family Life

Three wins we automatically experienced by combining our family life and business startup together.

How 6 Smart Entrepreneurs Failed to get 'Shark Tank' Money but Went on to Make Millions

Who's sorry now? They didn't get the 'Shark Tank' deals they w, but these startups are killing it anyway.

Uber drivers get some clarification on tipping; riders likely still confused

The court settlement last week for ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. directly addressed a labor dispute over whether operators should be counted as independent contractors or employees, but it also indirectly impacts, at least a little bit, the confusing practice of tipping the service's drivers.

YourForce: Working Like a Dog

There's a hidden value waiting to be uncovered, writes editor-in-chief Mike Prokopeak.

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Uber settlement with drivers opens the road to IPO

Uber Technologies Inc.'s hefty $100 million settlement late Thursday with a group of drivers left its business model intact, and may serve as a message to grumpy investors that it is tidying house before eventually going public.

Security News You Might Have Missed: $1.3M iPhone Hack, Feds Want More Apple Data, More

This week, the government revealed it paid at least $1.3m for tool to unlock San Bernardino phone, a transparency report revealed that US government orders for Apple user data quadrupled, the secret FISA court ignored a public advocate's concerns over FBI access to NSA data for domestic crimes, NSAs were deemed legal (for now).

Female Scientist's Metal Foam Can Shatter Armor-Piercing Bullets

First a woman scientist invents Kevlar and now another one is inventing composite metal foam to revolutionize the armor industry.

Tips for Creating an Effective Onboarding Site

When employers consider building an online onboarding portal, they should first think about the core messages the website will impart to new hires and integrate those ideas into the design components.

Yik Yak Settles With Ousted Cofounder

Yik Yak, the anonymous social app popular with the high-school and college set and said to be valued at $400 million, has settled a lawsuit filed about two years ago by its third cofounder Douglas Warstler, who claimed he had been robbed of one-third of the company.

The Wall Street Journal: Uber settles drivers' class-action suits for $100 million

Uber Technologies Inc. has warded off a serious legal threat to its highflying business model with a settlement that may end the debate over whether its drivers should be counted as independent contractors or employees.

Dell's SecureWorks To IPO Tomorrow

SecureWorks will begin trading on NASDAQ tomorrow under the symbol SCWX

7 Inbound Marketing Strategies that Guarantee Quick Results

Inbound marketing has become 'the' marketing strategy for brands to truly succeed.

Georgia Has Most E-Verify Users

Fourteen percent of the approximately 600,000 employers using E-Verify are located in Georgia, which ranks highest of all 50 states in the program's usage, according to new statistics released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Rules Orientation Is Your Best Bet for Cultural Fit

When hiring for cultural fit, the best thing you can do is figure out who is a pirate and who ...

What Is Employee Experience?

As we shift to the future of work where organizations are focusing on the reasons why employees WANT to work versus NEED to work, it is important to understand employee experience. A lot of organizations historically have focused only on one aspect of organizational change and that is culture. This is how employees feel when they are inside of an organization, the vibe that they get, the organizational structure, leadership style, compensation and benefits, etc. While culture is a part of the employee experience, it is only a third.

The Conservative/Liberal Divide, Captured In A Supreme Court Debate Over Overtime

An exchange between a Supreme Court justice and a lawyer for a car dealership says a lot about liberal and conservative views on the workplace.

The New York Post: ESPN fires Curt Schilling after anti-transgender comments

Apparently ESPN decided it was about time Curt Schilling was on the other side of a Strike Three call.

How Accessible Is Your Recruiting Technology?

The Labor Department's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) recently unveiled free online resources and toolkits to help employers improve the accessibility of their web-based job applications for job seekers with disabilities.

5 Reasons You Should Stop Shortening URLs

A recent paper published by Cornell Tech researchers showed that shortened URLs can be cracked to spy on people-but that's just one reason to avoid bit.ly and sites like it. Here are five more.

Apple Abruptly Pulls Plug On QuickTime for Windows

Do you have Apple QuickTime installed on your Windows PC? It's time to remove it. There are known flaws that can be exploited relatively easily, and Apple has confirmed that it is no longer supporting the software.

FBI admits it can't keep up with advances in technology

An FBI official told Congress it doesn't have the tech skills to keep up with encrypted smartphones.