Lifestyle and Budget

The Future of Cloud Gaming: More Social, Speedy

In the age of the Cloud, who has time to boot up an old console? Cloud gaming, sometimes called gaming on demand, is similar to what Netflix has done in streaming movies or Pandora has done in streaming music.

Long-term US mortgage rates rise

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week as the prospect of a year-end interest-rate increase by the Federal Reserve grew more likely.

McDonald's Turns to Social Media to Draw Millennials

McDonald's recently hired 200 people from companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc. to bolster its digital efforts and win back the millennials it lost to rivals serving fresher food. Just one in five millennials has ever tried the company's flagship Big Mac, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Are You Making it Easy for Hackers to Steal Your Financial Info?

The recent Yahoo data breach was a reminder that your personal information is at risk. Bankrate.com analyst Mike Cetera says if something similar has not happened to you yet, it is a virtual certainty that it will happen at some point during your lifetime.

Wells Fargo Lays Out Strategy to Move Past Scandal

Wells Fargo & Co.'s top brass laid out the bank's strategy to move past its sales-tactics scandal on an hour-long call Monday with 500 senior executives, according to a recording of the call reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.