Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said Cristiano Ronaldo has not asked to leave the Spanish and European champions as he fielded questions over a possible move to China. The Chinese Super League has emerged as a possible destination for Ronaldo after former Brazil and Portugal head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari revealed the five-time Ballon d’Or winner had often asked about ...

Don’t look for an industry, look for the opportunity. Opportunity is a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. The middle class looks for jobs to solve their problems. You need a job, but you also need opportunity. Senior students at MIT and Harvard right now don’t even know what opportunity means, they will just be looking ...

Are most CEOs just pretenders? Management consultant Steve Tobak certainly thinks so. In his article awhile ago — Why Most CEOs Are Frauds — he laments the trend of so many people giving themselves the title of “CEO.” He wrote: “I’m being a bit facetious, but you know what I’m talking about. A position that used to be reserved for ...

I was the CEO of a public company for more than 26 years — that’s longer than Cal Ripken, Jr., played baseball. And I wasn’t the only one who stuck around Panera for a long time. Many of my colleagues did, too. In one case, a senior executive grew up with me there for more than 20 years. His job ...

1.Get organized You can simply group different types of apps on your homescreen together by dragging one shortcut and hovering it over another to create a new folder. You can also make sure you have access to your work anywhere by utilizing Google Drive to move your files from one device to another. 2.Change your perspective If you find yourself ...

I used to accept the fatalistic ritual inherent to entrepreneurship: tireless days followed by the sleepless nights, most notably marked by the seemingly endless staring at the ceiling. After all, I put my family’s capital and reputation on the line every day. A common theme in business literature is that risk-taking is an inherent characteristic of today’s entrepreneur. The real ...

Beantown Bedding co-founders Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple are on a mission to help the world live laundry-free. Like many first-time founders, the friends had no previous startup experience and held not desire to start a business. “Ironically, neither of us had any intention of starting a business. We simply saw a need for a product that didn’t exist and ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted the giant social network “made mistakes” in his first comments since a data scandal engulfed the company. Political consultancy Cambridge Analytica is accused of misusing data from 50 million Facebook users. In a statement on his Facebook page, Mr Zuckerberg admitted a “breach of trust” had occurred. He also pledged a series of changes, ...

A former Facebook employee has told MPs it did not try hard enough to detect when user data was taken or misused by apps built for the site. The tech giant employed Sandy Parakilas in a role focused on data protection and app compliance, in 2011 and 2012. He told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Facebook had “lost ...

A hardware wallet designed to store crypto-currencies, and touted by its manufacturer as tamper-proof, has been hacked by a British 15-year-old. Writing on his blog, Saleem Rashid said he had written code that gave him a back door into the Ledger Nano S, a $100 (£70) device that has sold millions around the world. It would allow a malicious attacker ...