Just 18 months after launching its live TV service, Hulu is looking to winnow down its live offerings, replacing them with more on-demand programming.

Hulu CEO Randy Freer told The Information in an exclusive interview that he wants to drop some live entertainment channels to be able to create smaller bundles of live sports, news and on-demand entertainment in ways to appeal more to viewers and ...

There have been some major moves occurring at companies focused on the future of work in the last few months. Robotic Process Automation, a technology that makes it possible to automate repetitive tasks inside businesses, is on fire. UiPath, arguably one of the standard bearers for the RPA industry, just raised a huge round that values it at more than $3 billion after growing from $1 million ...

Tesla’s flat management structure appears to have become even flatter recently, as departures of key executives have left a larger than normal number of people answerable directly to CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla’s employee organization chart, located on an internal company website and viewed by The Information, recently showed 29 managers reporting to Mr. Musk. About a dozen of those ...

In the past few weeks, as some of the Valley’s most mature  internet companies have faced crisis after crisis, there’s been a theme circulating that these companies, and Facebook in particular, has lost their product way.

This chatter peaked when journalists and others suggested that Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom should run Facebook, in part, because he’s a fabulous ...

The search for a money-making business in digital media takes companies in many different directions. Some have tried and abandoned social media as a distribution platform in favor of their own streaming services. There are those who do the opposite. Both approaches are highlighted in our short profiles about three fast-growing digital media firms based in Texas and Los Angeles.

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Airbnb’s years-long effort to crack the market for vacation tours and activities accelerated this year in what was known internally as the “summer of love.” After testing the service extensively, the company looked to grow its Experiences business rapidly, offering bar crawls, hat-making classes and other trip add-ons to more than 1,000 cities from Abu Dhabi to Reykjavik.

But ...

MTV is trying to re-establish itself as the network for millennials. What would help is if it could hire back just a few of the many executives it has lost over the past decade to internet firms like Facebook, Spotify and YouTube.

Perhaps more than any other TV network, MTV has been a hunting ground for digital media firms looking for talent in recent years. That’s likely a reflection of ...

When Amazon announced plans last week to bump the minimum wage for 250,000 employees to $15 an hour, it avoided a related, but sensitive topic: When might machines replace those workers, many of whom work in its warehouses?   

Amazon already uses robots to handle some jobs in its warehouses, known as fulfillment centers, but it has downplayed the risk of robots replacing ...

Happy San Francisco Blockchain Week to those celebrating. As one might expect, there have been a ton of funding and product announcements coinciding with the event, with one highlight being the launch of a $100 million crypto fund, Dragonfly Capital Partners. Thousands of miles away, though, the Chinese mining giant Bitmain has plans cooking: The company has been quietly hiring for its new ...

The endowments of Harvard University, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina have made investments into at least one cryptocurrency fund, a person familiar with the investments said, in a sign of the asset class’ growing acceptance among institutional investors.

While many institutions have been reluctant to ...

Founders wield outsize influence over many of Silicon Valley’s most successful public companies through their shareholdings. But lately a growing number of tech firms are setting limits on founder power, partly in response to investor backlash.

Messaging service Slack, which is expected to go public next year, adopted rules in December that so-called supervoting shares held by co-founder ...

Costco Wholesale had preliminary discussions over the past few months about offering a video streaming service as a perk for its top-tier customers, according to three people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

The retailer has talked to at least two providers of existing streaming services about the possibility of offering such a service free for its “executive” members, ...

Five years ago, Apple was forced to temporarily close what was then its only retail store in Shenzhen, China, after it was besieged by lines of hundreds of customers waiting to swap broken iPhones for new devices, according to two former Apple employees who were briefed about the matter. In May 2013, the Shenzhen store logged more than 2,000 warranty claims a week, more than any other Apple ...

Microsoft’s efforts to build a futuristic computer based on quantum mechanics are getting a boost from former engineers of the chipmaker Qualcomm.

Over the past few months, Microsoft has aggressively hired chip engineers from a struggling Qualcomm division devoted to building chips for the computers that power data centers, more so than other companies, according to people familiar with ...

Chinese internet giant Tencent has agreed to invest about $200 million in Brazil’s Nubank, which offers virtual credit cards, in a deal that values the startup at around $4 billion, a person familiar with the matter said.

Tencent’s first investment in Brazil makes Nubank one of the most valuable startups in Latin America. It is the latest sign of how China’s tech titans are ...

“Should Mark move Facebook out of Silicon Valley?”

The electric scooter market has expanded rapidly, yet some scooter executives think the fast growth has obscured real challenges with issues such as hardware, battery charging and road space.

On Thursday, executives at three scooter and bike companies, Ryan Rzepecki, CEO of Uber-owned Jump, Michael Keating, CEO of Scoot, and Darren Weingard, chief legal officer of Skip, explained on a ...