We have just learned that the median salary of employees at Amazon.com Inc. is $28,446, excluding its chief executive officer and founder, Jeff Bezos. That pitiful number raises an intriguing question: Is Amazon a high-paying tech company or a low-wage retailer? “Both” is the obvious answer, but to this Amazon aficionado that answer is incomplete. The pay figure, which was ...

Tammie Jo Shults is commercial aviation’s latest hero. So why aren’t there more pilots like her? The Southwest Airlines Co. captain, praised for her cool handling of a depressurization and emergency landing in Philadelphia after the Boeing Co. 737’s engine blew apart mid-flight, is still an anomaly in the airline industry. While women make up roughly half of cabin crew, ...

Apple Inc. is changing, and everyone knows it except Apple itself. Apple executives consistently fail to be straightforward about significant technology trends and how they affect the company. The biggest of the big trends: Growth in the smartphone market is gone, at least for now. The likeliest buyers now own at least one of the devices. Smartphone owners are holding ...