Cisco Systems is in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Signal Sciences, the latest sign of Cisco’s efforts to expand in cybersecurity, according to several people familiar with the talks.

Signal Sciences develops software that protects applications running in private data centers and on cloud providers from attacks. The 5-year-old company’s customers include Adobe, WeWork, Etsy and ...

A task-management and note-taking app maker called Notion Labs is raising $10 million at a paper valuation of $800 million in what it calls an “angel round,” according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Notion is part of a crowded field of “productivity” tools designed for business use that have drawn intense interest from investors.

COO Akshay Kothari confirmed ...

In the U.S., investors are salivating over plant-based burgers. Beyond Meat has seen its market capitalization more than double to $10 billion since it went public in May. Now, the meatless meat mania is starting to spread to other parts of the world. And that’s what Brazilian entrepreneur Marcos Leta is betting on.

Mr. Leta’s startup, Fazenda Futuro—“future farm” ...

Since Amazon stumbled into the cloud computing business 13 years ago, its Amazon Web Services division has soared to more than $25 billion in annual sales, accounting for nearly 59% of the internet retailer’s operating income. In contrast, it has taken Salesforce—no slouch in the cloud computing business—nearly two decades to reach just $13 billion in annual revenue. 

But ...

Six years ago, a warehouse employee at one of Apple’s top suppliers, Jabil, stole thousands of iPhone 5C casings from a factory in China before the product was announced. The employee, with help from a security guard, falsified documents and avoided security cameras as he drove a truck filled with the candy-colored shells out of the gates, according to three people familiar with the ...

SoftBank recently has been in discussions to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in on-demand delivery startup goPuff, three people familiar with the matter said. A deal would raise the profile of goPuff, which delivers beer cases, Juul pods and munchies largely to college students.

If completed, the deal also would raise new questions about potential conflicts of interest for SoftBank, ...

Late last month more than one hundred technologists, academics and journalists gathered in San Francisco to talk about the future of free speech. The event—which I organized with Andrew Kortina and Slow Ventures—tackled a range of topics related to how technology is upending how we communicate with each other, consume information and make decisions together as a society. 

The ...

The past year has been a time of intense activity for some employees at the Santa Clara headquarters of Seres, a Chinese-owned, Silicon Valley–based electric car maker once described in U.S. media as a Tesla challenger. One worker built a Lego Star Trek spaceship at his desk. Others played pool, foosball and UNO for hours. Some watched movies or shopped on Amazon all day. 

Then there ...

This week our Asia team stayed up late to lead a subscriber conference call on the future relationship between Chinese and U.S. tech. Foreign correspondents must join new parents as among the most sleep-deprived sets of humans. (Shout out to those on our team who are both!)

It was a great call, and I learned a lot from our team, which includes reporters who have collectively been covering China ...

This year’s spate of tech IPOs has produced some misses, like Uber and Lyft, and some big hits like Zoom Video. But what was the overall pattern in the first half of the year?

Despite the increased number of offerings, the average returns of IPOs so far this year mirror the impressive gains seen in the first half of 2018. And measured as a multiple of revenue, valuations for this ...

Kaiyo, a 5-year-old online furniture consignment shop formerly known as Furnishare, was founded to help urban dwellers moving from one set of tight quarters to another solve a common problem: where to buy or sell unwanted furniture easily and on short notice.

Kaiyo does this by offering free pickup of used furniture, which it takes to a warehouse, cleans, photographs and lists on Kaiyo.com, its ...

The wintertime was bleak for Bird. In this year’s first quarter, the electric scooter operator lost nearly $100 million while revenue shrank sharply to only about $15 million, people familiar with the matter said. In the spring, it told people it was down to about $100 million in cash, even after raising more than $700 million over a year and a half. 

It’s well known that ...