Food preparation workers and restaurant servers are among the low-wage employees studied by UC Berkeley researchers. Above, salad makers prepare lunch at Tender Greens in Santa Monica last year. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) By CHRIS KIRKHAM California’s low-wage workers

By Dori Harpaz DevOps is a hot field and there are plenty of opportunities out there—but not all DevOps jobs and departments are created equal. At Incapsula, we work closely with DevOps teams responsible for the security, speed, and availability of

Hayley RingleReporter- Phoenix Business JournalEmail  |  Twitter  |  LinkedIn  |  Google+ Getting more women into STEM careers means getting more girls interested in those fields in elementary school, and keeping that interest stoked through high school, according to Mitzi Montoya, vice president and dean of Arizona State University’sEntrepreneurship and

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By Joel Kotkin & Mark Schill Joel Kotkin, Editor of NewGeography.com and Presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. Mark Schill, Vice President of Research at Praxis Strategy Group, an economic development and research firm working with communities and states

By Christopher Ingraham “#GetItDone: Office workers want technology to help them get things done anywhere, sunrise to sunset.” That’s the chipper headline of a Microsoft infographic that’s currently going viral on social media, although not for the reasons the company intended. The ad pairs findings

Editor’s note: Anthony P. Lee is a General Partner at Altos Ventures, a venture growth equity fund focused on investing in high-growth, founder-led software, mobile and Internet companies. Now that we are a 15 years into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) revolution, many of

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Employees work at an assembly line in the Toyota manufacturing plant located in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok. Mr. Siu thinks jobs have been taken away by automation, more than by outsourcing. While some manufacturing jobs have clearly gone overseas, “it’s

Tesla is building a massive gigafactory in northern Nevada. Tesla will build the batteries for its electric cars there, and while the factory is still years from being operational, a report in the Reno Gazette-Journal on Sunday discusses the impact the factory is