Initial public offerings of stock by enterprise technology companies keep on coming, with business intelligence startup Domo Inc. going public today as network security firm Tenable Inc. and the browser company Opera Ltd. filed for an offering as well. On the surface, Domo’s offering was a success, as shares jumped 30 percent over their offering ...

Box Inc. today expanded a beta test program for its Skills software framework that uses machine learning to make video, audio, image and other files more useful on its content management service. Introduced last year, Box Skills opened up the ability to perform tasks on content such as computer vision for image analysis, video indexing ...

Google LLC is priming its cloud computing services for a star turn in Hollywood with a new Los Angeles region and storage services announced today. The search giant had already announced it would be opening a region, or physical location, for its Google Cloud Platform in the area, providing faster cloud services with less latency. ...

There’s a new No. 1 supercomputer in the world, as the United States has captured the lead from China for the first time in more than five years. The Summit supercomputer (pictured), built by IBM Corp. at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, captured the top spot in the twice-a-year list released early Monday ...

Oracle Corp. may still be the biggest provider of databases, one of the foundations of today’s data-driven businesses, but Amazon.com Inc. wants the world to know there’s more to databases than the venerable giant’s brand. In a blog post today, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels made a detailed case that the half-dozen kinds of ...

Updated: Intel Corp. Chief Executive Brian Krzanich today resigned after the revelation that he had a “past consensual relationship” with an employee. Krzanich (pictured), who had been CEO since May 2013, was replaced by Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan, who is now interim CEO. Intel said it was recently informed of the relationship, and an ...

Google LLC today signaled that its Flutter mobile app software development is nearly ready to take flight, offering up its first “preview” release. Flutter enables software developers to create “native” mobile apps for Apple Inc.’s iOS and Google’s own Android — in particular the user interfaces for the apps — faster than they can on ...

Just a few years ago, asking your phone a question to find information on the internet was, well, pretty much out of the question because computers weren’t all that great at understanding phrases outside a narrow few. Now, thanks to advances in machine learning, we think nothing of Google or Siri answering our queries with ...

Artificial intelligence researchers at the Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. today released details of a new deep learning algorithm that they claim can help pathologist identify tumors more accurately. Research scientists Yi Li and Wei Ping from Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab said the new algorithm, which they call a neural conditional random field or ...

Big-data management firm Hortonworks Inc. today announced the third version of its core Hortonworks Data Platform along with expanded partnerships with cloud computing leaders, including Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. The announcement of HDP 3.0 at the opening of the company’s DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, essentially enables enterprises to run data-intensive ...