Los Angeles and Orange County area community colleges are starting a push to improve the training they offer for middle-skill jobs in the entertainment and digital industries. A new report commissioned by the colleges and released Friday reveals detailed wage and job growth information for Southern California middle skill jobs in entertainment and digital industries. It […]

The war on science has at least three fronts. First, there is the widely reported political war on science, widely and erroneously believed to be waged exclusively by conservatives, when in reality, progressives are just as eager to throw science under the bus when it suits their agenda. (ACSH President Hank Campbell and I wrote […]

Amazon is planning to debut a package-delivery service for businesses that’s designed to compete directly with FedEx and UPS, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Stevens reported Friday that the e-commerce giant would roll out the service, called Shipping with Amazon, or SWA, in Los Angeles over the next few weeks. The service […]

Sometimes stocks fall because of bad news, sometimes they fall because of good news, and other times they fall because of no news at all. The last week has been some combination of the last two. During that time, if you’ve managed to avoid CNBC, the Dow Jones industrial average is now down a total […]

Many graphic design firms, accounting practices, law firms and human resource compliance agencies charge clients like you by the hour and love it when you spend four months on the same subject. When it comes to designing a logo, I know of many graphic design firms that enjoy working with …

This Sunset Boulevard club launched SBE, which evolved into a worldwide luxury lifestyle empire. SBE was already building a reputation for hotels with bold, dynamic design and trendy destination restaurants (its stable included SLS hotels, The Redbury, The Bazaar by José Andrés and Katsuya).

But there's much more to the tech titan's successful culture than free meals and on-site amenities like massages and dry cleaning. There are other intangible qualities that keep Googlers happy, productive and dedicated to the company. Thirteen Forbes Technology Council members, some of whom have …

As digitally native brands continue to disrupt the beauty industry's status quo, more and more investors are rushing to back them up. It doesn't hurt that beauty at large seems to be having a moment, with U.S. beauty sales rising to $17.7 billion in 2017, a 6 percent increase from the year prior. Skin care …

North Korea has held a military parade attended by leader Kim Jong-un, a day before the opening of the Winter Olympics in the South. The North often boasts of its parades but reports of this surfaced afterwards with TV only airing delayed footage. This event is usually held in April and moving it had been […]

The top five U.S. tech companies have taken a huge hit during this recent sell-off. The combined market value of Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook is down $437 billion, as measured by the decline from each of the stocks’ respective 52-week highs — all of which occurred on or after Jan.18 of this year […]