Updated: There’s still a cloud hanging over Amazon.com Inc., but that’s a good thing. Thanks once again to strong growth in its cloud computing operation, the tech and retail giant today reported better-than-expected profits in its first quarter. But light guidance for second-quarter companywide operating income kept a lid on shares, which rose only about ...

All those controversies over Facebook’s data and privacy practices, fake news and election meddling have finally hit its bottom line. Facebook said today that it expects to pay a $3 billion to $5 billion fine to the Federal Trade Commission over its user data practices, and it took a $3 billion charge in its first quarter to ...

In his first big public appearance as Google Cloud’s chief executive, Thomas Kurian today sketched a vision of the company as a breath of fresh air for enterprises grappling with how to move to the cloud without jettisoning their core applications. The longtime Oracle Corp. veteran (pictured), who joined Google LLC’s cloud unit in January ...

File storage is a staple for a wide range of computing jobs, from traditional business applications such as SAP SE’s to rendering movies and design electronic components. Today, Google LLC is allying with Elastifile Ltd. to bolster the file storage capabilities of its cloud computing platform. In particular, the two companies announced the availability of ...

With its next marquee graphics processing unit chip not due to debut until next year, Nvidia Corp. today opened its GPU Technology Conference instead with a raft of new machines and services intended to cement the leading position of its existing chips in computer graphics, data science and artificial intelligence. Among the introductions headlining the ...

Making sense of massive amounts of data is critical to every organization today — this time of year, no more so than to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With the March Madness college basketball tournament season starting next week, Google LLC is expanding its work with the NCAA to crunch the association’s 80 years of ...

The ability to pay as you go is one of the big selling points for cloud services, doing away with overpaying for servers or enterprise software licenses that may end up underused. But the flipside is that cloud services costs such as data storage can be unpredictable budget-busters. Google LLC today introduced a new pricing ...

Updated: In its first quarter as a newly public company, Dell Technologies Inc. today reported marginally better-than-expected quarterly revenue growth but a higher-than-expected net loss. The 9 percent revenue growth was centered in servers and networking gear as well as in Dell’s share of the spoils from its 80 percent ownership of computing virtualization giant ...

Hoping to wrest some cloud computing market share from its bigger rivals, Google LLC today announced that its software platform for bringing its cloud services into private data centers is more or less ready for prime time. In particular, Google said its Cloud Services Platform, announced at its Cloud Next conference last July, today is ...

Picking away at bigger cloud computing rivals, Google LLC today said it plans to acquire Alooma Inc., which helps companies move their disparate data into a single cloud data warehouse. Google didn’t say how much it paid for the Redwood City, California-based startup, which also has significant presence in Tel Aviv, but it was likely not ...