High-profile cybersecurity firm Centrify Inc. today said the private equity giant Thoma Bravo is acquiring a “significant” majority stake in the company. Thoma Bravo, which has been investing in several cybersecurity firms such as Bomgar and Sailpoint in the last few years and bought security firm Barracuda Networks in November for $1.6 billion, is buying ...

Armed with $400 million for its latest fund announced today, Scale Venture Partners revealed plans to open up its internal software used to help keep its portfolio cloud startups growing. The Foster City, California-based venture capital firm is showing an early preview of Scale Studio, a software platform it has been using for a couple ...

In a surprise move, Google Cloud Chief Operating Officer Diane Bryant has left the company after serving only seven months on the job. The departure of Bryant (pictured), first reported by Business Insider, was confirmed by Google LLC today. “We can confirm that Diane Bryant is no longer with Google,” the company said in a statement. “We are ...

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 ...