Former American Apparel CFO Accused Of Conspiring Against Founder – BuzzFeed News

American Apparel’s former chief financial officer allegedly schemed to oust founder Dov Charney last year as part of a plan to sell the company, a former senior manager claimed in a new lawsuit against the company this week. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles on Monday, accuses former chief financial officer John Luttrell of mismanaging…

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New York Apartments, Art Top Gold as Stores of Wealth, Says Fink – Bloomberg Business

Gold’s traditional role as a store of wealth has been usurped by contemporary art and apartments in cities such as New York and London, according to Laurence D. Fink, head of the world’s biggest asset manager. “Historically gold was a great instrument for storing of wealth,” the chairman of BlackRock Inc. said at a conference…

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At long last, a relaunch for WSJ.com—and an Apple Watch app | Capital New York

paging_filterThe Wall Street Journal will roll out its new website on April 21, marking the paper’s first online redesign in seven years, and it will launch a news application for the Apple Watch when the device becomes available on April 24. The long-awaited overhaul will refurbish wsj.com’s outdated, text-heavy look with cleaner navigation, sharper graphics…

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Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ – Digits – WSJ

article start Google is changing its search algorithm Tuesday to favor sites that look good on smartphones, a move some are calling “mobilegeddon” because of its impact on website operators. The new formula will give a boost in Google’s “organic” search results to sites that are designed to look good on smartphones, while penalizing those…

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BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising Pressure – NYTimes.com

An internal review by BuzzFeed last week found three instances when editors deleted posts after an advertiser or employees from the company’s business side complained about their content, according to a memo sent to staff members on Saturday by the news and entertainment website’s editor in chief. The three deleted posts — out of more…

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The worst question you could ask women in a job interview – The Washington Post

(istock) During a recent talk in Washington, Google’s “people operations” chief Laszlo Bock said something notable about fixing the equal pay conundrum. While he admitted that men tend to negotiate more than women, what he didn’t do was suggest — as is so often the case — that solving the gender wage gap is simply a matter of women negotiating more. Rather,…

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L.A. spends $100 million a year on homelessness, city report finds – LA Times

Los Angeles spends more than $100 million a year coping with homelessness, including as much as $87 million that goes to arrests, skid row patrols and mental health interventions, according to a report released Thursday. City librarians, recreation and parks, sanitation and paramedics also devote significant resources to handling homeless people, without clear guidelines or…

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