Startups

The retailer, with IBM and Beijing's Tsinghua University, is building a blockchain online ledger to track the movement of pork in its Chinese supply chain in an effort to make the system safer in one of the meat’s biggest global markets.

The $1.2 billion-backed Silicon Valley-based energy startup said in documents, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, that the extension of a tax credit is a “prerequisite for an IPO.”

Airbnb announced planned changes to its home-listing website in New York to appease regulators, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers a bill that would impose stiff fines on some hosts.

The Cupertino-based tech giant has teamed up with Australia’s Sonder Design to work on a keyboard that will be able to display any alphabet, along with an unlimited number of special commands and symbols.

Columnist Li Yuan writes that China’s internet industry is dominated by a trio of giants, and they use investments and acquisitions to maintain their control.

Fortinet’s recent warning is the latest sign that cybersecurity demand is moderating.

MakeMyTrip and ibibo—two of India’s biggest online travel booking platforms—are merging, the latest example of consolidation among startups in the world’s second-most-populous country.

Microsoft and other companies in middle age must be a "learn it all" not a "know it all."

The venture-capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, In-Q-Tel, said on Tuesday that it has invested in MapD Technologies Inc., a database and visualization startup.

Ladder Financial said it raised $14 million in a new fundraising round led by Canaan Partners, one of LendingClub’s first outside investors.

A strike at two Kentucky bourbon plants has entered its fifth day as talks between Beam Suntory Inc. and the local union continue amid rising pressure from the company’s ambitious growth plan.

This generation is skeptical of America’s economic system. No wonder.

Human-resources startup Zenefits is seeking to put its troubled past behind it, launching redesigned software at its first customer conference in an effort to jump-start sales and repair its corporate image.

With rising temperatures affecting the iconic French region, can science—or England—keep the good stuff flowing?

Every so often, lawmakers propose making Election Day a federal holiday in hopes of nudging more voters to the polls. This year, a handful of employers are taking matters into their own hands and declaring Nov. 8 a day off work.

The virtual reality startup’s latest funding round, led by Horizons Ventures Ltd., makes it one of the industry’s most heavily funded companies, and is run by former Zynga executive Maureen Fan and film director Eric Darnell.