Apple has hired a high-profile senior engineer of Alphabet’s Waymo self-driving vehicle unit, Jaime Waydo, to join the iPhone maker’s own self-driving vehicle project, known as Titan, according to a person briefed about the move.

Ms. Waydo’s hiring could elevate the stature of Apple’s self-driving car efforts. It also signals that the company may be making progress ...

One of Airbnb’s major Chinese rivals is in talks with investors to raise about $100 million in a new funding round, people familiar with the matter said.

Beijing-based Xiaozhu was valued at $1 billion in its previous round in November when it raised $120 million from investors including Yunfeng Capital, a private equity fund backed by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. The talks for the new round ...

For soccer fans, the World Cup that kicked off Thursday in Russia is one of the signature events of international sports. For fuboTV, an upstart battling for share in the burgeoning television streaming market, there is no better moment to lure more cord-cutters to join the growing number of subscribers it has in the U.S.

FuboTV has launched an advertising blitz to capitalize on World Cup ...

Self-driving vehicles are such a radical shift for the transportation industry that it is critical to build new cars from the ground up to take advantage of the technology, the head of Zoox, a startup that is doing just that, said on Thursday.

Tim Kentley-Klay, the co-founder and CEO of Zoox, said in an on-stage interview at The Information’s autonomous vehicle summit in San Francisco ...

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle unit of General Motors, is keeping its options open when it comes to partnerships with ride-sharing companies.

“Anything is possible,” said Daniel Kan, the company’s co-founder and chief operating officer. “We are constantly looking for partners to [help us] accelerate our timeline. ...We are making sure we are keeping everything on the ...

When AT&T shortly takes control of Time Warner, it aims to put a bigger emphasis on direct-to-consumer streaming services that it can promote with its cellular phone offerings. HBO, which operates the HBO Now streaming service, will be key to those plans, said a person familiar with AT&T’s thinking.

But to make HBO more competitive with fast-growing rivals like Netflix, AT&T ...

When he founded Poshmark, Manish Chandra chose not to compete directly with eBay by creating a broad platform for selling everything from cars to toys. Instead, he built a site for buying and selling fashion, demonstrating how niche ecommerce startups can still thrive in the shadow of eBay, the giant online marketplace.  

In doing so, Mr. Chandra joined the likes of Etsy and Swappa, ...

Tencent’s 2016 megadeal to buy Supercell cemented the Chinese tech giant’s stature as a global powerhouse in the $100 billion-plus videogame industry. The roughly $8 billion transaction by a Tencent-led group of Chinese investors was a huge bet that the Finnish mobile game maker behind worldwide hit “Clash of Clans” would keep creating new blockbusters.  

Two years ...

Electric scooter startups are aggressively seeking to raise money, telling potential investors that restrictions cities have placed on their operations won't impede their long-term growth. So far, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are all in.

Skip, a shared electric scooter operator that was founded by the co-creator of “Boosted Board” electric skateboards, told The ...

Tenable Network Security has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to two people with direct knowledge of the filing. Tenable is planning to go public in late July, the people said.

The filing, made on Monday, would make Tenable the third major cybersecurity company to go public this year, on the heels of Carbon Black and Zscaler. Both IPOs have been viewed as ...

On Tuesday afternoon, on the sidelines of the E3 games conference, a crowd of fans is expected to flock to a soccer stadium in Los Angeles to watch a group of professional gamers and celebrities competing against each other in Fortnite, the wildly popular online battle game. Many more will watch a livestream of the tournament on the internet.

Esports is emerging rapidly as a credible ...

What to do with Hulu?

That’s one of the most strategic questions facing Disney and Comcast as they battle to win control of 21st Century Fox, a takeover contest likely to ramp up this week. Whichever wins will get control of the service, which has signed up more than 20 million subscribers and is now a serious competitor to Netflix, Amazon and streaming cable services like DirecTV Now.

But ...

The pace of deal making in the media sector is expected to accelerate this week, as a court decision on whether AT&T can buy Time Warner clarifies the regulatory environment. Media companies are desperate to get bigger so they can better compete with tech giants like Netflix, Facebook and Google. And tech firms, such as Apple, are also seen as potential buyers of entertainment companies.

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Advanced Micro Devices’ battle with chip giant Intel has often seemed like a gnat fighting an elephant, with AMD struggling in recent years to gain even a tenth of the market for the chips that power PCs and data center servers. Forrest Norrod, a senior executive who joined AMD four years ago, says the company suffered from “little brother syndrome” where it tried and failed ...

Many new cars on the roads nowadays have sophisticated safety features that allow cars to steer and accelerate on their own. But when the cars crash, only the automakers know how those safety features performed. Crash investigators are often left guessing.

That’s because the information isn’t recorded in most cars’ event data recorders, the automotive equivalent of airplane ...

Fiat Chrysler stands out as the first automaker to agree to supply cars to self-driving car developers in Silicon Valley in its deal with Waymo. But in an interview with The Information, Fiat Chrysler chief technical officer Harald Wester made clear Fiat Chrysler disagrees with its partner on some key subjects, including whether Waymo will be able to claim it is safer than other autonomous ...

Amazon.com has contemplated offering home insurance as an offshoot of its development work on robots and other connected devices for the home, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The idea is that robots and other smart devices can be used to monitor for threats such as fires and burglaries, making it possible to offer cheaper premiums.

While there’s nothing that suggests ...

Uber plans to spend up to $500 million on a global marketing effort this year, according to a person familiar with the matter. It marks Uber’s first large-scale brand campaign and is part of an effort to repair the company’s image after last year’s scandals.

The branding campaign, which kicked off in the U.S. last month with television ads featuring Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, ...