Top US tech companies already pay some immigrants over $100,000

As the world grapples with the implications of President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, a leaked draft of another executive order is raising concerns in Silicon Valley that tech industry immigrants could...

Kors shares tumble as weak sales show department stores aren’t its only problem

Shares of Michael Kors tumbled 13 percent on Tuesday, after the luxury handbag maker said a planned pullback in distribution at department stores led to a 17.8 percent slide in wholesale revenue during its fiscal third quarter.But the company’s weak results...

Warren Buffett and Sheryl Sandberg agree on the most important decision you will ever make

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, whose estimated net worth is $1.3 billion, has a similar perspective. “I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is,” she...

TGI Fridays taps Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Tacos creator as chief marketing officer

TGI Fridays is shaking things up. The restaurant said Tuesday that it has hired a new chief marketing officer, Taco Bell’s Stephanie Perdue, and tapped restaurateur Jerry Comstock as its president and chief operating officer. Perdue, the former chief product...

Read this now: DeVos vote | Twitter crackdown | West Bank settlement | Obama kitesurfs

Here are some of the key stories CNBC is following this hour: Senate democrats have been mounting a marathon Senate session to derail the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the secretary of Education. The Senate is slated to vote at noon. Two Republicans are expected to...