Tubi TV, a free ad-supported video streaming service that shows old movies and TV shows, is in talks to raise around $150 million in a new round of funding, according to two people familiar with the plans. If successful, it would be by far the largest round raised by the service and would signal the interest investors have in the ad-supported part of the video streaming market.

Tubi TV is one ...

Even though it was an early flight, Adam Neumann’s airplane was stocked with champagne and Don Julio 42 tequila. Neumann, along with his personal assistant, a WeWork real estate executive, a pair of architects and a rabbi who was close to Neumann were flying to Mexico City in June 2015. It was a year before the company opened its first office there, and just a couple of weeks before it ...

Facebook’s burgeoning hardware group, its digital currency team and the executives leading Instagram are among the highlights of this updated org chart for the company, which identifies roughly 180 of the most senior people at Facebook.  

The chart—which is based on Facebook’s internal org chart and supplemented by additional reporting by The ...

Five years ago, the cryptocurrency startup Blockchain was seen as a rising star within the burgeoning field. Equipped with a conspicuous name and a practical-sounding plan to help consumers store crypto assets, it attracted $70 million in venture capital over several years from prominent funders.

But behind the scenes, the London-based startup has been struggling. Lacking a steady business ...

WeWork is putting two more recently acquired companies up for sale as it looks to raise cash, according to two people familiar with the matter. 

The latest on the block: Teem, which provides conference room scheduling software, and SpaceIQ, which makes workplace management software. WeWork bought Teem last fall for $94 million in cash, while it acquired SpaceIQ just three months ago. The ...

Harvest Properties, an Oakland, Calif.–based property developer, has always been cautious about the risks of leasing space to WeWork. But in recent months it had overcome those concerns and—until this week—was close to striking its biggest deal yet with the co-working giant. Harvest was going to lease hundreds of thousands of square feet in a downtown San Jose office building ...

In the latest sign of Amazon Web Services’s efforts to develop its own networking technology—used for routing data around the world—the cloud computing giant has hired a technology industry veteran who helped jumpstart the industry trend of do-it-yourself networking hardware. 

JR Rivers, a onetime Cisco executive who later co-founded and ran Cumulus Networks—a ...

Adam Neumann ran WeWork as something of a family-and-friends affair. Of the 20 or so executives who reported to him, half a dozen were either family members or close friends, including his wife Rebekah. With his departure on Tuesday as CEO, the future of many of those close associates is now in doubt.

Already his wife, who only recently was publicly listed as a WeWork co-founder alongside her ...

As WeWork investors jousted over Adam Neumann’s future at the company he built, a parallel debate by WeWork executives and bankers has centered on just how deeply WeWork should cut costs to save its business.

In recent days, a group of executives from WeWork’s parent company and bankers have been discussing ways to reduce costs, including laying off as many as 5,000 ...

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick’s newest startup is known as CloudKitchens. But a better name might be WeWork for Food. 

Operating through a small startup he bought last year, and supported by hundreds of millions of dollars in loan facilities arranged with Goldman Sachs and other banks, Kalanick in the past 18 months has snapped up or leased properties in cities around the U.S. and ...

NBCUniversal’s planned entry into the streaming video market may prove costlier than it expected.

When the Comcast-owned entertainment company in January unveiled plans to launch its own streaming service, it planned to differentiate the offering from rivals like Netflix and Disney+ by making the ad-supported service free to all cable and satellite TV subscribers. But a number of cable ...

Snap is in early talks with media companies about powering a dedicated news section inside the Snapchat app, according to six people familiar with the talks.

The planned news section represents a do-over of sorts for its efforts to present real-time, breaking news from a handful of trusted news partners. While news from those partners is currently mixed in with a jumble of other content, ...

One of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms, Andreessen Horowitz, saw its performance slip significantly after the blockbuster results of its initial fund, internal data show, illustrating just how cutthroat venture capital has become as even big names struggle to deliver outsized returns. 

The funds the firm raised in 2010 and 2011 showed a net internal rate of return of 16% and ...

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 ...