Slack’s listing got a lot of attention for its unusual structure. No underwriters, as is standard in a traditional initial public offering. No weeks on the road pitching the company to investors in hotel meeting rooms. Just let the shares float and see what happens. (As an aside, it seems like the banks were quite involved behind the scenes, but that’s another topic for another ...

In a sign of how Hulu’s programming decisions have shifted since Disney took control of the streaming service, Hulu executives have begun telling outside studios that Disney will likely have partial ownership in most shows Hulu buys, according to multiple studio executives and Hollywood agents.

In recent weeks, Hulu executives have told outside studios that in the future most of ...

Joe Biden joined a chorus of Amazon critics last week attacking the e-commerce giant for not paying enough in federal taxes. But Amazon’s effective tax rate is only a couple of percentage points below that of some other big tech companies. And they all benefit from the same thing: the tax deduction they get from paying employees heavily in stock.

In Amazon’s case, that deduction was ...

Startups looking to capitalize on the growing popularity of gig work are gaining increasing attention from investors. Among them is Jyve, which is focused on the retail sector where it connects workers to stores and brands needing people for tasks such as restocking shelves and setting up displays inside grocery stores. What sets Jyve apart from its rivals is that it pays workers per job ...

Throughout his career, Bret Taylor helped create some of the most widely used services on the internet, including Google Maps and Facebook’s “like” button.

Now, as president and chief product officer at Salesforce, he is helping the company move beyond its roots in cloud-based customer management software into tools that businesses can use to better understand the data they ...

Uber has held recent talks to buy Seattle-based Mighty AI, a startup that helps autonomous vehicle developers train their computer vision algorithms to better identify objects on the road, said three people briefed on the discussions.

The potential deal is another sign of a looming shakeout in the self-driving car field, where companies have collectively raised billions of dollars to tackle ...

Inside Facebook, a group has spent the past year developing a cryptocurrency that could have far-reaching implications for the company’s business and the broader digital payments industry if successful. Now the group is finally going public with the details of its plans.

Facebook unveiled the plans early Tuesday when it published an academic whitepaper about the cryptocurrency, called ...

Slack is set to be Silicon Valley’s next big debut on the stock market, with plans to go public on Thursday. The start of public trading, through a rare direct listing in which no new shares are sold, will test investors’ confidence in the messaging firm’s growth potential. Already, there are signs that the company will be valued at a much higher level on the public markets ...

Snap is on the mend. After a year of turmoil, when most of the top management team departed and the stock plunged to as low as $5, things have stabilized. The revolving door of executive departures has halted, at least for the moment. A new senior team, with more women than in the past, is in place, drawn from companies as varied as Amazon, Huffington Post and McDonald’s. And the stock ...

Panel discussions at The Information’s 2019 autonomous vehicle summit covered a lot of ground. The quality of automated driving software, the challenges of building and maintaining vehicles and other hardware, the role of insurance, and company valuations that are 30% lower than they were 18 months ago were hot topics. What follows is a selection of comments and observations from the ...

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The top automotive investor at tech’s largest investment fund predicted that the winners in the self-driving car sector will be those that can raise the most money.

“It is abundantly clear to me that it’s not just an intellectual capital game but a financial capital game. The risks are so big and opportunities so massive that there will be few players that have intellectual ...

Once a month, from second grade until I was in high school, one of my parents would pick me up from school and drive me to Dr. Wells’ office. He was my orthodontist. There I would sit in the waiting room, thumbing through reading material like the Complete Family Circus until the receptionist, Dr. Wells’ wife, told me the orthodontist was ready to see me. His wife always had ...