The good news is, someday soon “triple play” will mean something only to baseball fans. These days, though, cable-TV customers probably still know it better as the industry’s torture device. Triple-play bundles refer to long-term contracts with a company such as Comcast Corp. or Charter Communications Inc. that provide internet, television and landline-phone service for one “discounted” rate. These packages ...

A big story in Silicon Valley last year was late-stage growth companies learning that public markets no longer had an appetite for startups that were growing quickly but whose future profitability was dubious. For examples, look no further than the disappointing market debuts for companies such as Uber and Lyft and the withdrawn initial public offering of WeWork. Although that ...

What was going on at Nissan Motor Co. for the last two decades? With all his complaints about Nissan subordinates and the “depth of deprivation” he endured at the hands of the Japanese justice system, Carlos Ghosn didn’t really answer that at a news conference where he portrayed himself as a victim of human-rights abuses. Ghosn didn’t want to talk ...