Facebook is looking to make more strategic inroads in India, one of its most important markets. In the coming months, the company’s representatives there plan to recruit new members for Open Compute Project, a Facebook-led industry group that aims to make it easier for companies to build data centers, says one person who has been involved in the process.

The moves could strengthen ...

Andy Rubin, the father of Google's Android smartphone operating system, has recently talked about getting back in the Android phone business after more than two years away from it.

People in the mobile industry say Mr. Rubin has tried to recruit personnel to help build a new phone company, likely through Playground Fund, his vehicle for investing in startups. Playground has raised about ...

Alphabet CEO Larry Page was in recent discussions to hire Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, to lead Andy Rubin’s former robotics unit, say people briefed on the discussions. The appointment would have ended an almost year-long search for a leader to wrangle Alphabet’s messy group of robotics startups.

But the discussions fell through for a mix of reasons, including how much control Mr. ...

Microsoft is looking to lease a big chunk of data center space to bolster its Azure cloud computing service in Silicon Valley, in an effort to catch up to its biggest rival, Amazon Web Services.

Microsoft is in talks with data center companies Digital Realty and Vantage Data Centers to lease more than 10 megawatts of capacity in the San Francisco area by the middle of next year, say people ...

About one year after selling Motorola, executives inside Google are once again discussing whether to build an Android phone from scratch.

People who work at Google say there is debate and discussion about the topic right now—as there is with myriad ideas at “Googphabet,” one of the many internal nicknames for the new Alphabet-Google corporate structure. But the fact the issue ...

Google recently talked with some microchip makers about developing chips based on Google's own preferred designs, part of a push by the company to bring more uniformity to the fragmented universe of Android phones. That, Google hopes, would make its Android mobile operating system more competitive with Apple’s phones at the high end of the market and solve other major problems.

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Medical testing company Theranos faces mounting questions about its technology. But founder Elizabeth Holmes may be insulated from investor pressure, thanks to a supervoting share structure that gives insiders 100 votes per share, compared to a single vote for every share held by everyone else, according to an analysis done by research firm PitchBook for The Information.

Theranos is typical of ...

What's the difference between the “troubled” Yahoo of yesteryear and the “troubled” Yahoo of today? Profits.

The company in recent years pumped out as much as $800 million in annual income from its operations while net revenue generally stayed flat. That figure slumped sharply last year to $143 million and for the first nine months of 2015 was a negative $218 ...

George Hu, the chief operating officer of Salesforce.com, is planning to launch a human resources startup by year’s end, according to a person briefed on the product.

The company appears to be Peer.com, an anonymous peer-feedback service, according to a person familiar with the matter and company documents. David Schellhase, the former general counsel of Groupon, also appears to be ...

Sam Altman’s plan for Y Combinator is entering a new phase.

With all the speculation around whether Jack Dorsey will drop “interim” from his title at Twitter, there’s been surprisingly little reported about what he would do if he returned to permanently lead and turn around the company he co-founded. Would he focus on reaching people who don’t actively Tweet? Double down on the hard core fans? Move more aggressively into new ...

Shifts in the way wireless carriers sell smartphones are luring an array of new lower-priced phone makers into the U.S., with India’s Micromax Infomatics expected to be one of the next brands to jump into the market, according to people briefed on the plan.

Micromax, a 15-year-old privately-held electronics maker in India that started selling phones in 2008, was recently considering ...

May 13 was one of Uber’s darkest days.

The computer system used by its business-operations employees ground to a halt, for the whole day. The cause: a bug in one of Uber’s databases, which set off a chain reaction that took down other systems and was made worse by human errors in response to the cascading problems, according to internal emails reviewed by The Information.

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Snapchat has fired its Chief Talent Officer, Simmi Singh, just seven months after she joined, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Like other tech companies that run Web services, Apple has long relied on open source software. But unlike most others, Apple has largely done so secretly, hampering its hiring and causing other problems. Now some within Apple are hoping that is going to change.

The tech firm is developing a technology platform that can power all of its Web services, such as iCloud and iTunes, which have long ...

Keith Bigelow, a Salesforce.com executive who was hired from archrival SAP to oversee the launch of an ambitious new line of analytics software, is stepping down from the role, Salesforce said.

Mr. Bigelow runs Salesforce’s so-called analytics cloud. Its flagship product is Wave, the tool for slicing and dicing raw data into useful reports and charts that CEO Marc Benioff unveiled nearly ...

May was a triumphant month for Jawbone, an otherwise embattled maker of fitness-tracking bracelets and other gadgets. For more than 12 months, it had been looking for badly-needed investment capital, after having spent heavily on product development, new employees and dealing with complaints about defective products. But that month it raised $300 million in funding from private equity firm ...

After a five year absence, Google expects to return shortly to mainland China to sell mobile services, a move with ramifications for the future of Android and a host of Chinese companies.

As early as this fall, the company hopes to get Chinese government approval to distribute a special China version of its Google Play mobile app store for Android smartphones in the country, said people ...