Philo, which launched the first sports-free streaming TV service late last year, is raising a new funding round of between $40 million and $50 million, people familiar with the situation said. The fundraising comes as competition intensifies in the low-price end of the streaming TV market, including from a similar service unveiled this week by AT&T.

Philo plans to use the money to pay for ...

Uber last year changed how it pays people to try to eliminate the pay gap between men and women. Now some executives are complaining the new system makes it harder to recruit top talent.

That has pitted human resources chief Liane Hornsey against many other executives who want to offer some sought-after candidates more money, say people familiar with the situation. Ms. Hornsey last year ...

When Google unveiled its $550 million investment in Chinese online retail giant JD.com, the companies described the deal as a global alliance to expand their e-commerce businesses. But behind the scenes, according to a person familiar with the conversations, Google discussed how the link-up would help it launch its sales of consumer gadgets in China, a move that eventually could jump-start ...

A frenzy of merger activity has taken over the media sector in the past week, but one company, MTV’s owner Viacom, has been left on the sidelines. Even CBS, which like Viacom is controlled by the Redstone family, rebuffed a merger proposal from Viacom. So Viacom CEO Bob Bakish is trying to revive Viacom’s business by making shows for Netflix and other streaming services.

Plenty of ...

Late last year, the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, struck a deal with a small tech startup, Clarifai, to use its artificial intelligence software, a technology that promises to shake up the experience of shopping in stores.  

Under their agreement, which hasn’t previously been reported, Walmart planned to use Clarifai’s AI software—which can identify people and ...

In the last several weeks, you likely received a slew of emails from U.S. internet companies updating privacy policies in response to the Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation privacy rules coming into effect.

Seeing these updates has left me with a nagging question: Why are all these U.S.-domiciled companies choosing to update their services to comply with laws that might not even ...

There are few sectors as exciting to investors these days as cybersecurity, thanks to the never-ending barrage of online attacks on governments, companies and individuals. Now two of the best known cybersecurity startups are seeking to capitalize on that interest with new fundraising moves aimed at the public and private markets.     

One of those companies, CrowdStrike, is ...

One of the most valuable consumer products startups in the U.S.—Juul Labs—is a company some investors won’t even touch.

Still, enough institutional investors have been impressed by its growth that they agreed to buy shares in the electronic cigarette maker from early shareholders on the secondary market, propelling its valuation above $10 billion in the last month, according ...

The founder of Bird, a year-old scooter rental service that has attracted $450 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital, already has sold some of his shares, according to people who were briefed on the unusual move. A regulatory filing suggests that the founder, Travis VanderZanden, might have received at least several tens of millions of dollars from the sale, but the exact size of ...

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 ...