unemployment

Holy Start-Up Pileup! Social Networking Gets Professional.

Liz Gannes in Social on January 4, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The same variety of apple has apparently been falling from trees all over Silicon Valley, hitting Web entrepreneurs on the head and inspiring them to create better ways to connect personal and professional social networks.

The "War" For Top Talent In Silicon Valley

Deborah Gage, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 30, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

The unemployment rate in Silicon Valley may be higher than the nine percent national average, but that’s not making it any easier for some young technology start-ups looking to hire engineers.

Time Warner Cable Offers Cheaper TV Package Without ESPN

Nat Worden, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 18, 2010 at 10:15 pm PT

Time Warner Cable Inc. is rolling out a lower-priced cable TV package called “TV Essentials” that excludes major cable networks like ESPN, Comedy Central, TNT, Fox News, MSNBC, Fox regional sports networks and MSG.

Online Shopping Up From Last Year, but Well Below Trend

Nathan Becker, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 25, 2009 at 9:27 am PT

Internet researcher comScore said consumers spent more shopping online in the first 22 days of the holiday season than they did during the same period last year. But even though they are expected to spend more this season than during last year’s downtrodden holiday season, consumers are likely to keep their online spending tempered, the group said.

Silicon Valley's Jobless Unplug From Tech

Pui-Wing Tam, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 31, 2009 at 9:21 am PT

Jobless workers in Silicon Valley are giving up on the region’s dominant technology industry and trying to switch to other fields, as the area’s unemployment rate spikes above the national and state average.

When the Misery Index Is Too Upbeat

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 23, 2009 at 10:32 am PT

The Huffington Post has launched a new monthly feature it’s calling the “Real Misery Index,” which it says offers a more accurate snapshot of the economic struggles Americans face today than the original one. Developed in the 1970s by Arthur Okun, a Yale and Brookings Institution economist, the Misery Index is calculated by adding the unemployment rate and inflation rate.

But That "People Familiar With the Matter" Stuff Ain't Gonna Fly Here

John Paczkowski in News on May 1, 2009 at 4:55 am PT

Business journalists who had their careers curtailed by the souring economy might consider stopping by the Securities and Exchange Commission on their next trip to the unemployment office. The agency may have a good use for their talents, according to Chairman Mary Schapiro, who finds the sadly diminished ranks of the business press worrisome.

But That “People Familiar With the Matter” Stuff Ain’t Gonna Fly Here

John Paczkowski in News on May 1, 2009 at 4:55 am PT

Business journalists who had their careers curtailed by the souring economy might consider stopping by the Securities and Exchange Commission on their next trip to the unemployment office. The agency may have a good use for their talents, according to Chairman Mary Schapiro, who finds the sadly diminished ranks of the business press worrisome.

Crappy Times Are Here Again…

John Paczkowski in News on March 6, 2009 at 2:00 pm PT

Another grim report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today shows the job market slipping closer still to the grim levels it reached in 1982. The country lost 651,000 jobs in February, pushing the national unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, the Bureau said Friday. That’s its highest rate in 25 years.

Seniors Take Job Hunt to the Web

Elizabeth Holmes, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 26, 2009 at 2:57 pm PT

It’s not just kids who are Googling “unemployment.” Grandma and Grandpa are looking for jobs online too. Nearly 3.6 million people age 65 and older visited career-development Web sites in January, according to a Nielsen Online report released Thursday.