Net Net: Promoting innovation and managing change

Billionaire hedge fund manager J. Tomilson Hill has a keen eye for great art that's also made for some incredible investments. Hill shared some of his personal rules for buying art with CNBC. 

It's not that being a retailer is a bad thing. But investors want drugstores to reinvent their businesses as Amazon's threat looms.

Dia Simms, president of Sean Combs' sprawling business empire, says to this day there are times Combs is the only one in the room who doesn't expect her to fetch coffee. She is on a mission to change conditions for all women in the workplace.

Tyson Foods uses blockchain and drone technology, but not because these are ideas are trendy. Tyson's chief technology officer Scott Spradley explains how companies can avoid the buzz but still focus on the best use cases in the emerging enterprise.

Verizon is betting that customers will pay up for Samsung's new 5G smartphone.

Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman is out on maternity leave, and 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki's due date is nearing. These female leaders of 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 start-ups are offering broad family-leave benefits to employees.

On Tuesday Upwork released its quarterly skills index, which reveals the hottest skills in the U.S. job market. CEO Stephane Kasriel says it's key that online learning platforms evolve to meet the demand in areas ranging from podcasting to robotics.

With the explosion of the gig economy, opportunities to earn extra cash are endless. Today over 50% of millennials have a side hustle — some to cover essential expenses, and others, like Goldman Sachs exec Madelaine O'Connell, to fulfill a passion.

Bed Bath & Beyond says current board member Mary Winston will serve as interim CEO until a replacement is found.

Smartphones and laptops act as digital leashes, making it hard to strike a work/life balance. And even though more companies are offering paid time off and flexible work, experts say taking advantage of these options can risk a promotion or layoff.

This robot can pick tomatoes without bruising them and detect ripeness better than humans

Bezos' space company Blue Origin debuted a moon lander called "Blue Moon." Musk tweeted a different name for the spacecraft.

CNBC's Jon Fortt speaks with Ina Fried from Axios on Uber's IPO.

Bed Bath & Beyond's board of directors is now majority female, more diverse and younger. But its activist investors are worried they lack the relevant skills and retail experience they need to turn around the struggling retailer.

On the eve of Uber's long-anticipated IPO, rideshare drivers will go on strike to protest falling wages and labor practices on which the company and its rivals are built.

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett thinks CEOs of failing banks should lose literally everything they're worth.

Full-time gig workers won't be recognized as full-fledged employees — at Uber, Lyft and elsewhere — anytime soon. The DOL says they aren't entitled to health insurance and other benefits that would force companies to follow federal minimum-wage laws.

Today, Ericsson is putting the infrastructure in place that is needed to make 5G a reality, and tower climbers like Jordan Robinson are in high demand to lay the groundwork.

Campus food delivery is getting a surprising pick-me-up, thanks to autonomous robots offering food-and-beverage delivery right to the dorm room. The first college to do this is George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

The business wants to cut its carbon footprint through purchase of renewable energy certificates.

Marriott and major Wall Street banks have been vocal defenders of LGBT rights, but sponsorship of an event honoring Brazil's new controversial president Jair Bolsonaro calls into question their previous actions and statements.

Amazon revealed a plan to offer Prime members one-day shipping, but the biggest logistics innovation from Jeff Bezos may depend on Scout, a robot.

Lululemon is an athletic apparel brand that's been around for more than two decades, but its CEO says the best is yet to come.

IPOs, especially successful ones like Pinterest, can make instant millionaires out of early employees, but they can also be the demarcation point for a new kind of workplace. There is a culture shift with a focus on shareholder concerns.

Bernardo Hees leaves at a critical time for Kraft Heinz, which is struggling to boost sales in the slow-growing food industry.

The Avengers provide notable traits to be efficient leaders. These traits include confidence, determination, and so much more. Here are the top leadership characteristics that you can learn from this beloved group of superheroes.

The "Fast Money" traders share their first moves for the market open.

The open-office floor plan, now the standard for companies across the U.S., is supposed to encourage creative collaboration. So why are more workers putting on headphones to escape?

In a surprise move Spiesshofer, CEO since 2013, agreed with the board to step down and a search has begun for a successor, ABB said.

One of the first randomized clinical studies of a corporate wellness program tracking 30,000 workers reveals companies may need to temper expectations on better health outcomes and lower health-care spending. There's still more promise than payoff.

The emergence of sensor and other technologies that let businesses track, listen to and even watch employees while on company time is raising concern about corporate levels of surveillance.

Apple shares were down 2.5% in pre-market Monday after HSBC cut the tech giant's price target over fears of its exposure to the trade war between the U.S. and China.

Google has suspended business activity involving the transfer of hardware, software and key technical services with Huawei.

"Right now we are in some sort of cyber Cold War, and deterrence is the only response," says former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son speaks in futuristic terms about his company, but his biggest bet so far, Uber, has not fared well out of the gate.

Consumer IPOs from Snap to Uber have been disappointing and serve as a reminder that private investors are making all the money.

The We Company, parent company of WeWork, is the latest in a string of richly valued start-ups set to go public this year. But though it is valued at $47 billion, it's far from turning a profit. Instead, it's hemorrhaging cash.

Google collects the purchases you've made, including from other stores and sites such as Amazon, and saves them on a page called Purchases.

The memo says that $2 billion in fresh funding would only cover 10 months of business at the company's first-quarter burn rate.

Salesforce co-founder Parker Harris said on Twitter that the company disabled access to its online service for some customers.

CNBC takes you through some of the coolest — and weirdest — things featured at Viva Tech 2019, one of Europe's largest tech trade shows.

When it comes to dealing with tech giants such as Facebook there should be a "menu of options" available — including splitting them up, says Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

Trump's new order effectively blacklisting Huawei from the U.S. market will not hurt America in the race to build out next-generation 5G wireless technology, a well-known CEO and a top telecom investment banker say.

Tesla shares fell to their lowest since January 2017, after the NTSB said the company's Autopilot system was engaged during a fatal crash.

Sandberg said breaking up Facebook does not address the underlying issues people have with tech companies.

Fastly competes against the likes of Amazon and Google to help companies more quickly deliver their content to customers. Now it's a public company.

"We're trying to be transparent and ... we want to focus on the long term," CEO Ben Silbermann says.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Jim Cramer why the chipmaker won't be impacted by tariffs on Chinese imports.

The amount of money going into R&D at Apple shows the company is developing products in several new categories, the analysts write.

Amazon's large and flashy investments stand out from those of its tech peers over the past year.

Facebook executives need to focus on changing its business model, early Facebook and Google investor Roger McNamee told CNBC on Friday.

Major TV networks presented to advertisers this week at upfront presentations as they try to elbow out disruptors.

Zipline delivers lifesaving medical supplies by drone and will soon expand its services in Rwanda, Ghana, and the U.S.

Amazon is leading a $575 million funding round for Deliveroo, taking the total the food delivery firm has raised to date up to $1.53 billion.

Here's what experts have to say about Amazon's investment in a major competitor to food delivery giants like Uber Eats and Just Eat.

The competion commissioner has already issued big fines to tech firms over antitrust concerns.

BlaBlaCar and Bolt's founders say the lack of a common framework on ride-sharing make it more difficult to operate across Europe.