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You've heard of Mailchimp, TurboTax, Credit Karma, and Quickbooks; and chances are good you might even be able to picture their logos or recall a memorable ad. But what do you know about their parent company, Intuit? The most likely answer to that ...

Eighteen months after the deal closed, the new chief executive of a midmarket software business told me about his real problem. His executive team were listening to someone else. The founder had stayed on as chair and was exerting what the CEO saw as ...

On a sunny Friday afternoon in June, I walk down London's affluent King's Road to a two-block stretch that features four athleisure stores. At Alo, racks of sleek matching sets seem designed for women who post their Pilates workouts on Instagram. At ...

In 1987, the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow famously observed, "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." Nearly four decades later, AI has produced a version of its own. Call it the abundance paradox. At the ...

When Brian Daniel, the founder of a Los Angeles-based staffing agency, recently posted what he describes as a "high-paying remote job," he saw firsthand just how tough the labor market had become for job seekers. "We get between 500 and 1,000 ...

Not so many years ago, leaving college felt electric. I remember it as a moment charged with promise, rich with possibility, and alive with the feeling that a dozen doors had swung open at once. Graduates' ambitions or enthusiasm haven't changed ...

A recent address to the military by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is drawing attention on social media, with users saying the event's backdrop resembled iconography from the Third Reich. In an October 3 address at the United States Air Force Academy ...

Last week, the Trump administration began sending $500 checks to roughly 1 million Obamacare enrollees in 30 states--a "refund" for what the administration calls "high costs imposed by the Biden administration's gross mismanagement of Obamacare." In ...

Cats are having a moment. In American homes, cats have long played second fiddle to dogs. More U.S. households own dogs, but the balance is starting to tip. Last year, the number of U.S. homes with a dog under a year old was basically equal to the ...

Capcom saw tremendous success with the launch of Resident Evil Requiem earlier this year. The survival horror game has already sold more than 8.5 million copies, bringing in revenues topping $500 million and reigniting interest in the 30-year-old ...