As Uber and Lyft have grown, their rise has helped buoy another business: Checkr, a startup that runs background checks on gig economy workers. Ride-sharing helped its business take off, but the ...

Three products at DemoSpring show that it's time for Apple to get off the stick and figure out the background problems like power management and security. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and ...

Conducting background checks helps companies avoid dangerous, fraudulent, and reckless behavior from job candidates and employees. Background checks are a common part of the employee recruiting ...

Processing in which the program is not visibly interacting with the user. Earlier personal computers used operating systems that ran background tasks only when foreground tasks were idle, such as ...