By David R. Wheeler David R. Wheeler is a writer and journalism professor living in Lexington, Kentucky. Follow him on Twitter @David_R_Wheeler. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.  (CNN)Sunday’s announcement that Corinthian Colleges Inc. would shut down all

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

If you work in Silicon Valley, you’ll be unemployed in middle age, predicts Ted Rall. Silicon Valley Ageism: Special Report. aNewDomain — Most people know that Silicon Valley has a diversity problem. Women and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in Big Tech. Racist

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

If you have an aptitude for high-level math, you relish the challenge of constantly changing assignments, you’re a strong communicator and you work well on a team, consider a career as an actuary, a job that involves calculating the probability

Dan Price, C.E.O. of Gravity Payments, surprised his 120-person staff by announcing that he planned over the next three years to raise the salary of every employee to $70,000 a year.  By Matthew Williams The idea began percolating, said Dan

One successful program pays for an intensive training class, subsidizes wages for the jobless, and has an 80 percent placement rate. Can it be scaled? ALANA SEMUELS LAS VEGAS—Long-term unemployment was a phrase you heard a lot about during the