Newspapers to bid for antitrust exemption to tackle Google and Facebook

The news industry is to band together to seek a limited antitrust exemption from Congress in an effort to fend off growing competition from Facebook and Google. Traditional competitors including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, as...

Jawbone’s demise may be a case of ‘death by overfunding’ in Silicon Valley

Consumer electronics company Jawbone had more than enough money to take on Fitbit and other health-tracking devices in the “wearables” market. That may have ended up being its biggest problem. Top-tier venture capital firms Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz,...