When AT&T completed its purchase of Time Warner last year, one of its top priorities was to restructure the entertainment company so that its three businesses—HBO, Turner and Warner Bros—operated as one division. The hope was that by pooling its resources across children’s programming, premium entertainment, news and sports, it could better compete with bigger rivals like ...

Technology has driven us to a fascinating moment in the history of labor relations. 

At the very high end of the labor market, workers have never been more empowered, thanks to the internet. Open communication tools and forums inside of companies—and the increased liquidity of the job market—have given workers at companies like Google more power than ever. They are aggressively ...

Media companies need to consolidate unless they have massive scale, says Jon Steinberg, founder of millennial-focused financial news network Cheddar, which sold to New York cable company Altice USA earlier this year. 

“Cheddar had to be sold,” he said at The Information’s annual Media Bootcamp event in New York City, in an interview on stage with The Information ...

Publishers have grown wary of doing deals with tech companies like Apple and Facebook, says Wired Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson, aware that the terms of the deals often favor the tech companies over the news outlets. 

“I think that the journalism industry is appropriately wary of these platforms, and they’ve noticed that the terms of the deals often change,” Thompson ...

A mid-level official with the State Department asserted in a little-noticed speech on Wednesday that several huge Chinese tech companies—Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu—were effectively arms of the Chinese government. His comments raised the prospect that the Trump administration, which in May effectively barred Chinese smartphone maker Huawei from doing business with U.S. companies, ...

Apple has undergone more changes to its leadership this year than in the past few years combined as it grapples with a slowdown of its most important product, the iPhone, the latest models of which were unveiled on Tuesday. Aside from high-profile departures, such as chief designer Jony Ive, Apple has elevated its heads of operations and corporate development to CEO Tim Cook’s executive ...

A California bill that appears on the verge of becoming law could upend the business model of Uber and Lyft, by trying to force them to hire drivers as full-time employees rather than as contractors. Uber’s costs could rise by around 20% if that policy were applied globally, according to a former Uber executive who has examined the potential effects of such a law. 

Uber on Wednesday ...

This summer, Amazon sought to answer a key question about its cashierless Go convenience stores: How small could it go?

Employees at Amazon were seeking to determine the smallest possible size and design for a Go store in order to hit its target of $2 million in annual sales from each store, according to an internal analysis prepared in June and viewed by The Information. To solve the puzzle, ...

Facebook has said repeatedly that it isn’t in the journalism business, but a team of human editors responsible for an upcoming news initiative by the company will exercise significant control over the presentation of top stories, including judging them over their use of anonymous sources, according to internal guidelines seen by The Information.   

While Facebook’s ...

India, home to 1.3 billion people, offers a temptingly huge target for global tech companies: one of the world’s fastest growing economies and more than half a billion internet users, second only to China. American titans like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart and Uber, as well as China’s ByteDance and Alibaba, are all trying to grab a piece of this pie.

But so far, the massive ...

Come join our team as a summer reporting intern. This is an ideal opportunity for a college or graduate student with journalism ambitions and experience in reporting. The intern will spend the summer reporting and writing stories, supported by our team. 

Candidates must be able to generate ideas and source up. We are looking for someone with a record of breaking news and producing ...

Apple’s evolution into one of the most valuable companies in the world was one of the biggest stories in tech of the past 20 years. How it evolves in the coming years, as it grapples with a slowdown of its most important product—the iPhone—is sure to be one of the biggest tech stories of the next few years. The Information is looking for a reporter to cover this story. This ...