Anthony Wing Kosner Uber and Google appear to be parting ways according to a report by Bloomberg’s Brad Stone Monday. Google Ventures invested in Uber’s C and D rounds, and its chief legal officer and SVP of corporate development, David Drummond, has sat
Jeff Spross To appreciate the rot at the heart of corporate America, look no further than stock buybacks. Otherwise known as repurchases, they’re instances in which corporations use their profits to buy back their own stocks, resulting in a big payout
With entrepreneurship hotter than ever, Inc. 5000 business owners are betting on a very strong 2015. And who wants to argue with optimism? BY LEIGH BUCHANAN Editor-at-large, Inc. magazine Entrepreneurs, optimistic by nature, are particularly–indeed, almost giddily–enthusiastic as 2015 approaches. Our second annual
Wall Street and enormously rich individuals have gained political power to organize the market in ways that leave most Americans behind. By Robert Reich My recent column about the growth of on-demand jobs like Uber making life less predictable and secure
By Spencer Willems LITTLE ROCK — The House Education Committee passed a bill Tuesday requiring public high schools to teach computer science. Its sponsor, Rep. Bill Gossage, R-Ozark, told the committee the legislation is a education priority for Gov. Asa
Christopher S. Rugaber, Ap Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market remains a frustrating place for America’s 9 million unemployed — perhaps more so as hiring has accelerated along with job postings. The pace of job growth over the
Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton doubled-down on his comments earlier in the week on the misleading Obama unemployment rate. Obama says the unemployment rate is 5.6% which is very misleading. Clifton went on America’s Newsroom today to explain the misleading government numbers. “The number of
By Michael Bernick Former California Employment Development Department Director & Milken Institute Fellow In the past few weeks, President Obama’s free community college tuition proposal has received a lot of media attention as a strategy for rebuilding the middle class. Even
Here’s something that many Americans — including some of the smartest and most educated among us — don’t know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading. Right now, we’re hearing much celebrating
The new “sharing” economy is really about sharing the scraps. By Robert Reich How would you like to live in an economy where robots do everything that can be predictably programmed in advance, and almost all profits go to the robots’
