For years, research scientists have tinkered with a new form of encryption that could improve the security of data. Now the technology is getting a boost from some of the biggest cloud computing providers, who see it as a way of getting more business from corporate customers with highly-sensitive data, such as banking and health records. 

Two cloud providers, Microsoft and Google, have ...

A new subsidiary of Facebook has quietly released two teen-oriented apps and tapped a veteran executive to lead the group behind them, The Information has learned.

Ime Archibong, a high-profile executive at the company who previously led Facebook’s relationships with outside developers, recently changed roles to become head of New Product Experimentation, a “skunkworks” group ...

For the last two years, Chinese venture capitalist Geng Yixuan traveled to India every month or two to meet local startups. Geng’s firm, Shunwei Capital, is backed by Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi, the most popular smartphone brand in India, which gave Geng a solid entree to Indian entrepreneurs. This year, Shunwei recruited its first Indian employee and set up an office in Bengaluru.

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NBCUniversal’s planned entry into the streaming video market may prove costlier than it expected.

When the Comcast-owned entertainment company in January unveiled plans to launch its own streaming service, it planned to differentiate the offering from rivals like Netflix and Disney+ by making the ad-supported service free to all cable and satellite TV subscribers. But a number of cable ...

Snap is in early talks with media companies about powering a dedicated news section inside the Snapchat app, according to six people familiar with the talks.

The planned news section represents a do-over of sorts for its efforts to present real-time, breaking news from a handful of trusted news partners. While news from those partners is currently mixed in with a jumble of other content, ...

When AT&T completed its purchase of Time Warner last year, one of its top priorities was to restructure the entertainment company so that its three businesses—HBO, Turner and Warner Bros—operated as one division. The hope was that by pooling its resources across children’s programming, premium entertainment, news and sports, it could better compete with bigger rivals like ...

One of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms, Andreessen Horowitz, saw its performance slip significantly after the blockbuster results of its initial fund, internal data show, illustrating just how cutthroat venture capital has become as even big names struggle to deliver outsized returns. 

The funds the firm raised in 2010 and 2011 showed a net internal rate of return of 16% and ...

Activist and journalist Shaun King said he made “major mistakes” on his way to launching subscription-based social justice news outlet the North Star last year, but forgoing venture capital money isn’t one of them.

King acknowledged Friday that the North Star’s launch had difficulties, including doing too much with too little, technology problems on day one and not ...

Publishers have grown wary of doing deals with tech companies like Apple and Facebook, says Wired Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson, aware that the terms of the deals often favor the tech companies over the news outlets. 

“I think that the journalism industry is appropriately wary of these platforms, and they’ve noticed that the terms of the deals often change,” Thompson ...

A mid-level official with the State Department asserted in a little-noticed speech on Wednesday that several huge Chinese tech companies—Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu—were effectively arms of the Chinese government. His comments raised the prospect that the Trump administration, which in May effectively barred Chinese smartphone maker Huawei from doing business with U.S. companies, ...