published Jan 10th 2017, 5:00 am, by Ellen Huet (Bloomberg) —Tracy Chou wrote a post on Medium in October 2013, challenging tech companies to tell the world what percentage of their software engineers were women. Surprisingly, it worked: Google, Apple, Facebook and others published their lopsided race and gender statistics, and Chou,

published Jan 9th 2017, 5:54 pm, by Mark Bergen and Ashlee Vance (Bloomberg) —Alphabet Inc. is in talks to sell the Skybox Imaging satellite business it acquired for $500 million less than three years ago, another sign the technology giant is ratcheting back grand ambitions to blanket the globe with

published Jan 9th 2017, 3:00 am, by Ben Steverman (Bloomberg) — It’s tax time again, and President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress have promised to slash them—especially for corporations and the rich. For millions of Americans, however, a tax increase will be the first thing they see.

published Jan 9th 2017, 10:59 am, by Alan Bjerga (Bloomberg) — Children keep getting more expensive to raise — fashion is pricier and so are doctor visits and day care, according to the U.S. government. At least food’s still relatively cheap. The cost for a middle-income family to raise a

published Jan 7th 2017, 11:15 am, by Jennifer Jacobs and Nafeesa Syeed (Bloomberg) —President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as U.S. director of national intelligence, giving the retired Republican lawmaker oversight of the spy agencies that have drawn skepticism from Trump. “Dan has clearly demonstrated the deep

published Jan 3rd 2017, 12:20 pm, by Justin Sink (Bloomberg) —President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Obama administration shouldn’t release any more detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, warning the prisoners are “extremely dangerous people.” Detainees “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield,” Trump tweeted. The

published Jan 3rd 2017, 8:30 am, by Francis Wilkinson (Bloomberg View) —The religious left is the Sasquatch of American politics. It leaves footprints in the snow but recent sightings of the creature itself are rare, and not always credible. Progressive politics is dominated by secular ideals and, increasingly, secular voters.

published Oct 11th 2016, 8:22 pm, by Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — At No. 5 Experimental Primary School in the coal-mining city of Taiyuan, the red carpet is out. School girls in pink and white stand at the entrance, while fellow students sit in perfect rows inside, awaiting the arrival of

published Dec 28th 2016, 3:50 am, by Richard Vines (Bloomberg) —The world’s greatest chefs are just like us: They don’t like to take their work home with them. When it comes to home cooking, it turns out that the culinary stars behind dishes such as blackberry risotto with game-meat sauce,

published Jan 5th 2017, 7:30 am, by Tyler Cowen (Bloomberg View) —One of the most significant economic debates over the last decade has been over the nature of the U.S. productivity slowdown and what might someday end it. Improving overall productivity requires individual workers to produce more. That’s usually made