Entrepreneurs, fasten your seat belts. Whether you’re starting up your dream business this year or managing your established small company, 2016 will be a rollercoaster ride of potential opportunity — and pitfalls. (Entrepreneur)

Shares of Suncorp, a Japanese technology company traded on the Tokyo stock exchange (ticker: 6736), soared 17% on Tuesday following the government’s court declaration that it "successfully accessed the data stored on [Syed] Farook’s iPhone." (Fortune)

U.S. households are spending more but earning less, squeezing household budgets, a new Pew Charitable Trusts report find. (Wall Street Journal)

Unemployment is difficult at any age, but it can be especially difficult when you are over 50. (Wall Street Journal)

Policies like unlimited vacation and remote work help employees manage life's demands. These companies make it work for the bottom line too. (Fast Company)

Executives did not poorly evaluate white men for ‘diversity-valuing behaviors’ but punished women and minorities for similar practices, survey found. (The Guardian)

There are close to 3,000 four-year colleges and universities in the United States.  A small percentage are considered elite institutions of higher education.  Degrees from these particular institutions are golden tickets, giving the recipients special access to the best opportunities in the American workforce. (Forbes)

Real concerns remain about the disparity between majority and minorities, women and men, young and old, heterosexuals and homosexuals, the disabled, and those of particular religions and nationalities. (New York Daily News)

The Taiwanese company that assembles Apple’s iPhones agreed Wednesday to buy control of financially struggling Sharp Corp. for $3.5 billion in the first foreign takeover of a major Japanese electronics producer. (Wall Street Journal)

For thousands of years, Japan's ama or "women of the sea" have turned to the ocean for their livelihood and meals. These female divers go out to the sea with minimal gear, and use their bare hands to land their catch. (BBC)

The number of students earning bachelor’s degrees is up, but between white and black students the gains are unequal. (takepartLearn More...

This year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, recently published a list of the top 10 skills that will be needed for careers in 2020. They are developed at selective liberal arts colleges, says ELCA college leader. (Black Enterprise)

Have you ever wanted to shop with Black owned business in your city or when traveling across the United States? Not sure how to find local or national business that are owned by people that look like you and live in your community. (BlackNews.com)

Countering "macho" tech culture and bolstering women’s confidence can slow rush of mid-career women heading for the door. (Diversity Inc)

Apple’s hopes of finding out how the FBI and an unidentified third party accessed data on the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone are not dashed—yet. (Fortune)

Minorities continue to struggle with credit management more than other business owners (Black Enterprise)

Private companies in the United States added 200,000 jobs in March, buoyed by strong gains in construction, retail and shipping. (New York Times)

California is on the verge of making itself a guinea pig in a bold economics experiment. (New York Times)

Banks are probably safer than people believe, and real estate, the sector investors are rushing to, has become riskier (Wall Street Journal)

Anyone shopping for a home today has probably had at least one encounter with sticker shock. No matter the neighborhood, home prices are generally rising, and bidding wars are often the rule rather than the exception. That means fewer neighborhoods are now considered affordable — a lot fewer. (CNBC)

Do you have enough money to retire? That’s not an easy question to answer, but there are some ways to tell if you’re on track. Experts like to use the following methods to determine if you have enough to fund your desired lifestyle. (USA TODAY)

A study based on a 15-day reporting period by 100 married couples found these were the most frequent sources of marital conflict. While money wasn't the No. 1 most common source of conflict, the study found it was often the most difficult to resolve. (,i>NPR)

There's a little more to it than who you like and who you don't.(Fast Company)

Race to harness financial tech opens up wealth of MBA job opportunities (Business Because)

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Harvard oncologist have a proposal to get highly effective but prohibitively expensive drugs into consumers' hands: health care installment loans. (NPR)

Chinese insurance firm Anbang has raised its offer for Starwood Hotels to $14bn (£9.8bn), extending a bidding war with Marriott for the group. (bbc)

What present and history have actually shown is the scant presence of Blacks in the wealthiest and most influential sectors of Cuban society; while they remain majoritarian in disempowered and poorer strati, and in prisons, of course. (Huffington Post)

The U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday that the federal government cannot, before trial, seize the assets of the accused if those assets are unrelated to the crime and are needed to pay a defense attorney.(NPR)

Despite having generated billions in revenue over the past two decades, African-American women do not receive nearly enough attention for their entrepreneurial acumen. (Ebony)

Ways to deal with a team member who is annoying, inefficient, and not aligned with the CEO and the rest of the team. (Harvard Business Review)