Venture capital funds had a strong first half of the year with $66 billion invested in some 4,900 deals. At the current pace, 2019 may turn out to be the second consecutive year VC investment has topped $100 billion.

Meanwhile, exits are setting a record. Propelled by Uber's IPO, the Q2 exits total of $138.38 -- more than double Q1's $50.2 billion -- pushed the first six months exit ...

Employers' "obsession," as a MarketWatch article termed it, with hiring millennials and even younger digital natives is especially hurting the financial services industry, as the interest is unrequited.

A Deloitte Insights article says the financial institutions worldwide are facing two critical employment trends: "a pervasive talent gap and a boom in the number of baby boomers still employed or seeking employment in their workplaces."

Deloitte says the talent ...

Customer experience begins even before they open the front door. Realtors call it "curb appeal." That first impression sets an expectation of what follows. Overcoming a bad one takes far more effort than confirming a good one, and it may not happen at all. That's why savvy office managers need to pay attention to the small details.

Look at your reception area from the perspective of a first time ...

An unnamed drug firm is trying out a new way to reach potential customers -- targeting ads to patients in waiting rooms.

An article on FiercePharma says beginning this week, patients who log on to the Wi-Fi in their cardiologist's office will see messages for a PCSK9 inhibitor, which is a type of cholesterol lowering drug. Although the ad campaign, managed by Semcasting, which is managing the ad campaign, declined to ...

Chances are no child has ever told Grandma and Grandpa they want to be a human resources manager when they grow up. Too bad, because it's a growing career that pays well and is becoming ever more vital to modern management.

A new report from CareerCast says seasoned HR managers have a median salary of $113,000. Even though that means half the jobs pay less, it also means half ...

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Automation, powered by artificial intelligence, is rapidly and profoundly transforming the American economy and its society, says MIT economist David Autor.

The former is becoming more obvious everyday, as companies increase their investment in robots -- electronic as well as mechanical. The latter, though, hasn't been much noticed, and even less reported on. Autor, himself, isn't certain how the transformation will evolve, though as he said in is keynote last month ...

When the June employment numbers are released Friday, economists are expecting a rebound from May's disappointing results.

Last month, the government reported 75,000 new jobs were created in May, less than half what analysts forecast. Bloomberg says the June number should be in the neighborhood of 160,000.

Looking for signs of where the economy is heading, labor economists and financial market will be paying close attention to the ...