Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. had a lot to live up to today when it reported its first-quarter earnings, after its stock hit another in a string of recent all-time highs. Bottom line: It didn’t. But the results still easily beat expectations, if not as much as some of those investors may have hoped. Thanks to ...

If there was any remaining doubt that Google Inc. is doubling down on its bid to spread the benefits of artificial intelligence into every nook and cranny of business and everyday life, the company quashed them flat today. In its signature announcement at its annual Google I/O conference for software developers near its Silicon Valley ...

Mesosphere Inc., the San Francisco-based company that aims to be something of a cloud-era Microsoft Windows for large companies’ hybrid data center and cloud operations, today said it has raised a $125 million late-stage funding round. The new Series D round brings total financing to more than $250 million. New investors T. Rowe Price Associates ...

A new version of the machine learning technology that Facebook Inc. uses to do some 6 billion language translations a day will soon be available more widely. The social network giant, and engineering powerhouse, today introduced PyTorch 1.0, which is the newest version of its open-source artificial intelligence software framework. The introduction, the technical centerpiece ...

Still smarting from intense criticism of user data breaches, Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg today sought to patch up relations with one of its most important constituencies: software and website developers. Zuckerberg (pictured) opened his keynote today at the company’s annual F8 conference for developers in San Jose, California, with a rerun of his ...

A lot of people weren’t sure when Facebook Inc. opened up its Messenger platform two years ago to businesses that the 1.3 billion people using the messaging system would want that kind of company in their most intimate app. No matter: The social network today is plunging ahead to give business even more tools. The ...

In a sign of strength in everything from its retail operations to its surging cloud computing business, Amazon.com Inc. once again managed to outpace forecasts in its latest quarter. The retail and cloud computing giant today reported a first-quarter net profit of $3.27 per share, well over double a year ago despite continuing heavy investment ...

Updated: Beating back weeks of bad news involving exposure of its users’ personal data, Facebook Inc. today reported first-quarter results that handily beat expectations that were tempered by worries that advertisers might start to shy away. That clearly didn’t happen, though honestly few people expected it. The social network giant said its net profit jumped ...

The social magazine service Flipboard Inc. is doubling down on tech coverage with new curation features announced today that soon will be expanded into other coverage areas. The features, available in the Flipboard mobile app and on the web, highlight deeper, curated content from publishers such as TechCrunch and CNET, presented in a “high-density” webpage. ...

Updated: Brushing back concerns about recent attacks on data-driven advertising, Alphabet Inc. today beat profit and revenue forecasts for its first quarter, aided partly by strength in other businesses such as cloud computing and hardware devices. The parent company of Google LLC reported a net profit of $13.33 a share on a 26 percent rise ...