Earning power: Growth in pay is slower for women than for men, even if they go to college: Study

The y-axis above shows the percentage of higher earnings when compared to that of a 25-year-old in the same group. The researchers also found that the earnings growth of college-educated men ages 25 to 40 was significantly higher than women’s when both remained...

US missile defense triggers alarm in Russia, China as North Korea issues new warnings

The Pentagon’s successful interceptor missile defense test this week is seen as a step toward reducing the nuclear risk from North Korea, but now China and Russia are seeing the U.S. technology as a threat.Regardless, North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun...

What Twitter thinks it knows about you is often wrong. Here’s why

CNBC’s Wilfred Frost is retired, and Landon Dowdy makes over half a million running her own business. Those are some of the conclusions drawn by Twitter’s newly available demographic inferences, which are based on behaviors outside of the social media...

Here’s How a Chinese Tech Firm Borrowed $2.1 Billion in a Hurry

When a Chinese tech company with global ambitions began to run short of cash last year, it sought billions of dollars from new investors. One of them was a music teacher. Li Shenghong, who teaches out of a mall storefront in southern China, was already a fan of the...

Trump’s plan to slash food stamp assistance could be a major setback for these retailers

Though the border adjustment tax might be off the table, for now, some retailers should be paying close attention to the GOP’s plans to change how the government allocates its dollars. Specifically, food assistance dollars. President Donald Trump’s...

YouTube attempts to tackle thorny issue of advertising and hateful content

Kjellberg said the videos, which included him paying people using the freelance job site Fiverr to hold up a sign with an anti-Semitic message, were intended to “show how crazy the modern world is.” “I picked something that seemed absurd to...