In February 2018—as rumors swirled about Facebook’s interest in supporting cryptocurrencies in its apps—one of the company’s top executives, David Marcus, told a gathering of venture capitalists in Los Angeles not to hold their breath about such a plan.  

Mr. Marcus, the former president of PayPal who had recently joined the board of the crypto exchange ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open source software provider Red Hat saw its revenue growth slow significantly in fiscal 2019 as sales of its subscription software faltered. But the top sales executive at IBM, which completed a $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat on Tuesday, says being part of IBM will help get Red Hat back on track.

In an exclusive interview with The Information, Martin Schroeter said IBM’s acquisition ...

Get ready for another deluge of Libra headlines. The head of Facebook’s crypto project, David Marcus, is set to testify before Congress twice next week, in hearings that are shaping up to be contentious.

Some House lawmakers already have asked Facebook to halt all work on Libra until after the hearings, but the company not surprisingly hasn’t taken them up on the offer. It is clear ...

William Barr spent most of the 24 years between his first and second stints as U.S. attorney general working for Verizon as general counsel and serving on the board of Time Warner, two companies that over that period were among Silicon Valley’s biggest policy opponents. Now Mr. Barr holds the fate of Google and Apple in his hands, as the Justice Department considers antitrust action ...

Several key Tesla engineering managers working on its Autopilot semi-automated driving feature left the company after CEO Elon Musk told some employees he was unhappy with the progress in developing fully automated driving capabilities, according to one current and one former Tesla employee who have been involved in the effort. He is also upset that some team members have told him they ...

WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has said in interviews that his “superpower” is change. Whether his deputies share his comfort with change is another question, as roles atop the company are often in flux, creating uncertainty about who aside from Mr. Neumann holds power at WeWork. 

Reporting lines at the company shift often. People close to WeWork said the organizational chart ...

The stakes are high for many CEOs at Sun Valley this year, which begins this Tuesday. Silicon Valley needs to make nice with its enemies, with looming antitrust investigations that could break apart several businesses. The large media conglomerates, which have long agitated for such scrutiny of tech, are themselves still trying to rearrange the deck chairs by combining to get more scale.  ...

Over the past year, workers at Google, Microsoft and Amazon have demanded that their employers stop supplying technology to the U.S. military and other government agencies. But a new book from the historian Margaret O’Mara shows how the tech industry might not exist without the patronage of big government—and particularly the defense industry.   

Ms. ...