When an oxygen tank exploded aboard the ill-fated Apollo 13 in 1970, a team of NASA engineers used cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape to rescue the astronauts on board. 

Andreessen Horowitz general partner Vijay Pande, who invests out of the firm’s $750 million biotech fund, likens the Apollo 13 engineers to the entrepreneurs developing new technologies in response to Covid-19.

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This week seemed the perfect time to ask our subscribers about their plans to return to the office. 

While tech companies are starting to mark their calendars for when some employees head back to the workplace, Mark Zuckerberg’s expectation that half of Facebook employees will work remotely in five to 10 years seemed to draw a line in the sand. 

In 2015, Facebook employees were offered an unusual perk: a cash bonus of at least $10,000 if they moved within 10 miles of the company’s suburban Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. The lure was typical at the time for the social media giant, which had just completed a new office building that placed thousands of employees in one giant room. 

Five years—and a ...

Two months into sheltering in place, it is becoming clearer how Covid-19 is going to affect the early-stage venture community. Raising venture funds will become harder, but some companies will get a boost from lockdowns and remote work.

Apple is about to face a big test of its ability to manufacture its devices outside China—by making a brand-new product in Vietnam.  

Apple has tapped factories in Vietnam to make its own forthcoming over-ear headphones, a new phase in its effort to diversify manufacturing away from China amid political and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, The Information has ...

Getting a new streaming service like HBO Max off the ground is a technical feat under normal circumstances, but the coronavirus pandemic has added wrinkles no one could have anticipated.

Just a couple of weeks ago, when a small power outage in a Seattle neighborhood affected one of WarnerMedia’s data centers, the media company’s chief technology officer, Jeremy Legg, had to scramble ...

Tim McLaughlin cheered alongside doctors and nurses at an Oakland, Calif., children’s hospital one evening in late April as his 3-year-old son rang a bell to celebrate major progress with his cancer treatment. The next day, McLaughlin opened his email to find scooter startup Lime had laid him off.

McLaughlin, a 43-year-old Missouri native who found work in the tech industry after taking ...