Fancy yourself the next Jamie Dimon, Mary Barra or Bob Iger? It’s a difficult journey to the top of any business, requiring hard work, long hours and some serious commitment. But there are some simple moves you can take early on in your career that can help set you apart from the crowd, according to global leadership development agency […]

It’s been quite a while in coming, but Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 for Marketing service finally is available in public preview. Dynamics 365 for Marketing is Microsoft’s marketing module aimed at small-to-midsize businesses. (Microsoft advises enterprise customers using Dynamics to go with Adobe’s Marketing Cloud instead.) Dynamics 365 for Marketing also is meant to be the replacement for Microsoft’s Dynamics […]

Who and where • Stephanie Mertz of St. Charles (left) with her brother-in-law, sister and niece Steve, Nancy and Jacqueline Benz of Chesterfield, in Mont Saint-Michel, France.  The trip • In late spring, Stephanie traveled to Spain to pick up her niece from a semester of studying abroad in Barcelona. She then met her sister […]

Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones: TV Tune in: Not in the mood for the Olympics but enjoy a good competition? We have just the thing when The Bachelor Winter Games premieres Tuesday at 8 ET/PT. The four-episode series will pit contestants from international editions of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette against each other in athletics and dating. DVD/BLU-RAY View: The […]

In the days leading up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews has been celebrating the work of some of its own scientists. The centre is profiling several of its female scientists on its Facebook site this weekend. In the past, marine science seemed […]

People like paying for news — especially when it’s the New York Times. The publisher’s online subscription business, embarked upon somewhat sheepishly in 2011, has now cultivated over 2.2 million paying readers. An additional 400,000 or so pay for the Times’ standalone Crossword and Cooking apps. But what’s particularly noteworthy is how quickly the business […]

LOS ANGELES — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation — by operating his own partisan news outlet. Resembling a local, conservative news site, “The California Republican” is classified on Facebook as a “media/news […]

Remember how George Clooney’s ultra-slick character in “Up in the Air” had everything ready to go before he passed through security? Well, seasoned world travelers are just like that, too — they know where they’re going, pack what they need, and don’t waste precious minutes at check-in. Here’s what you need to know to fly like […]

When Tina Fey’s film “Mean Girls” came out in 2004, the comedy was lauded as a silly, satirical excoriation of modern high-school life and its cliques, cafeteria antics and materialism. “Mean Girls” was a “Clueless” for the millennial age. And it was so fetch. Fast forward to 2018. “Mean Girls” is about to begin a new […]

The Super Bowl has been called “The Marketer’s Holiday” for good reason. At $5 million for a 30-second spot, it’s one of the highest-grossing media events in the world. And with all the hype around previews before The Big Game, it’s become a frenzy to follow all the activity of the big brands before and […]