We dove deep on the story of David Drummond at Google. The company’s chief legal officer recently announced he was retiring, following the lead of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s decision to step aside, But his departure re-opened some old wounds with former partners at Google’s venture arm GV. Nick got the backstory on how Drummond and Page clashed with the CEO of ...

SoftBank’s Vision Fund made one of its largest U.S. venture investments last year in a Philadelphia-based startup that has developed a big following on college campuses for its deliveries of junk food, alcohol and other convenience store items.

The Vision Fund led a $750 million investment in goPuff last August, two people familiar with the matter said, and kept an option to invest an ...

When Alphabet’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, announced his retirement from the company last week, an executive who once ran the company’s main venture investment arm—now known as GV—issued an unusual public statement blasting Drummond. “We have very, very different ideas about how to treat people, and this was a long time coming,” said the executive, ...

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a sweeping, 30-year plan to remove from the atmosphere all the carbon it has ever emitted, effectively eliminating its global carbon footprint. The plan appears likely to raise the stakes for other big tech companies that haven’t set goals anywhere near as ambitious.

By 2025, Microsoft says, it will shift to using only renewable energy to power its ...

Once high-flying tech companies like WeWork and Magic Leap have been shedding employees. Others are struggling to fundraise. Following a reckoning in the public markets in 2019, 2020 isn't likely to be kind to tech companies that have been burning through cash and haven't found a way to turn a profit. 

With that in mind, we assembled a list of companies that our reporting ...

Netflix’s stock rises and falls on subscriber growth, which has come to a halt in the U.S. But subscribers are still growing strong internationally, reaching 158 million subscribers at the end of September. Its executives have laid out a case to investors that the next 100 million subscribers could come from places like India and Southeast Asia, which have large populations with high ...

On Thursday, Comcast’s NBCUniversal becomes the fourth company in less than a year to unveil a video-streaming service to compete with Netflix. But NBCU is taking a very different approach to its service, Peacock, than the three earlier companies, Disney, Apple and WarnerMedia, did, making it more of a test case for an alternative approach to video streaming.

While other services are ...

For more than four years, Jack Dorsey has held the CEO role at both Twitter and Square, splitting his time between the two companies, whose headquarters are near each other in downtown San Francisco. For Twitter, the lack of a full-time CEO has meant that senior leaders are effectively running the company by consensus.

Having to get top executives to agree on everything often drags out the ...

Welcome back to The Information's 411.

A little over two years ago, I was sitting in my office with reporter Reed Albergotti and our managing editor Martin Peers wrestling with how to tell the story about the interoffice romances at Google that were long rumored but never published. 

Reed had new reporting about Alphabet’s chief legal officer David Drummond’s relationship with a subordinate. But figuring out what ...

If there’s one thing to be said for Quibi, the short-form streaming service coming from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman this spring, it’s that it doesn’t suffer from a lack of ambition. When it launches, it will join a crowded field of streaming services from big media companies, all offering movies and TV shows for a few dollars a month. But unlike its rivals, ...

On Thursday, we hosted a conference call for subscribers with takeaways from the big annual event. You can check out a recording of the video call below. 

The Information is hiring an executive to be our first head of communications, responsible for establishing The Information brand and amplifying the impact of our journalism. 

Over the past six years, we have built a fast-growing and sustainable premium news business off the back of excellent journalism. Our team of 40 includes an exceptional group of award-winning journalists and senior ...

When it comes to tech companies arming themselves against competition, Slack may be hard to beat. At least, that is, when it comes to spending on research and development, the route to new product development. 

Slack spent the equivalent of 38% of its revenue on R&D in its first three quarters of last year, a percentage that was significantly higher than for other subscription software ...

LAS VEGAS—Predicting which technologies at CES—the giant consumer electronics show taking place here this week—will become part of our lives and when is always a crapshoot. 

Personal robots, 3D television sets and a long list of operating systems and devices that debuted at the show in past years all ended up flopping. If there is one technology that attendees at this ...

Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk edged out Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as the most important tech company founder of the last decade, according to our most recent subscriber survey.

Musk garnered almost entirely positive comments from subscribers, who lauded him for transforming the auto industry, pushing the frontiers of space exploration and expanding ...