Falling unemployment in US, Japan and euro zone forcing firms to lift wages to retain staff

HONG KONG/WASHINGTON • Workers in the world’s richest countries are getting their biggest pay bump in a decade, a step towards solving a labour market puzzle that’s unnerving central bankers.

WASHINGTON — Time Magazine is being sold by Meredith Corp. to Marc Benioff, a co-founder of Salesforce, and his wife, it was announced Sunday.

Meredith announced that it was selling Time magazine for $190 million in cash to Benioff, one of four co-founders of Salesforce, a cloud computing pioneer.

HONG KONG: Workers in the world’s richest countries are getting their biggest pay bump in a decade, a step toward solving a labor market puzzle that’s unnerving central bankers.

BCC predicts fall to 1.1% this year and 1.3% in 2019 amid Brexit uncertainty

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has downgraded its prediction for UK growth this year and the following, joining a growing number of forecasters that warn Brexit uncertainty has sapped the economy’s strength.

NEW YORK — Amazon wants you to shop small.

The online retailer launched a new section of its site Monday called Amazon Storefronts, which only lists products sold by small- and medium-sized businesses in the U.S.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma showed that an innovative private enterprise could thrive under a Communist Party regime.

Long before he became China’s most globally prominent business figure, Jack Ma was just an English teacher trying to persuade his friends that they would one day buy things over the internet.

CEDAR FALLS – Most business deals go down over coffee or drinks, as opposed to a business room, said Red Cedar’s co-founder and executive director Danny Laudick.

That’s the idea behind One Million Cups, a monthly event where entrepreneurs can present their business pitches to other entrepreneurs over coffee.

Nike’s advertisement featuring Colin Kaepernick drew Donald Trump’s ire – but are they both exploiting a similar technique?

What’s more American: blue jeans or guns?

Safari and Firefox web browsers are adding new privacy features to thwart web tracking.

The decision comes amid heightened public concern over the information internet users share with companies while they browse the web.

Many wonder what they can do to protect themselves after Thursday’s stunning explosions in Lawrence, Mass., that left one dead and at least 25 others injured.

The natural gas pipeline in the United States is vast, sprawling across 2.5 million miles in a complex pressurized system that delivers a quarter of the energy consumed nationwide, according to the American Gas Association. Many of the pipes are old, and utilities are in various stages of replacing them to improve safety.