Updated: Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos came out Thursday with guns blazing against the owner of the tabloid National Enquirer, which he claimed threatened to release explicit selfies he and his girlfriend sent to each other. The charge came in a long, exceedingly rare and unusually frank missive on Medium from the usually utterly ...

There are plenty of ways to secure data while it’s sitting in databases and while it’s winging around networks, even if the means remain far from perfect. But what about when the data is being actively used in cloud applications and services? That particular state of data is what the emerging concept of “confidential computing” ...

Updated: In almost as much of an anticlimax as Sunday’s Snoozer Bowl, Alphabet Inc. today again beat most expectations for its fourth quarter thanks to continued strength in its search and video advertising and investment gains. Only problem: Some higher expenses for spending on cloud engineers and data centers as well as YouTube content didn’t ...

Updated Cloud computing keeps wagging Amazon.com Inc.’s e-commerce dog, with no signs the tail-wagging will slow down anytime soon. The Seattle-based retail and cloud behemoth today reported fourth-quarter earnings that easily beat expectations thanks in part to its highly profitable Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud unit. But the company provided first-quarter guidance that fell a ...

Updated In case anyone had forgotten amid its unending data and privacy issues, Facebook Inc. actually is a business — one that keeps making a lot of money. The social networking giant proved that once again today. Facebook reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results, with a profit per share before costs such as stock compensation of $2.38 ...

Executives at Choice Hotels International Inc. realized years ago that they needed upgrade the company’s information technology systems — especially a global reservations system that, like many companies’ mission-critical systems, predated the internet. Ultimately, the owner of Quality Inn, Cambria Hotels and other chains settled on moving to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud — a ...

For a technology that’s decades old, artificial intelligence managed to emerge in the public imagination as one of the signature technologies of 2018 — if not always in a positive way. On the upside, AI and its related sets of technology such as machine learning and deep learning enable now-taken-for-granted services such as speech recognition ...

IBM Corp. is justly famous for pioneering work in artificial intelligence, even decades before its Watson computer beat a couple of “Jeopardy” champions. But in recent years, its work has been eclipsed at least in the public imagination by new AI-driven speech and image recognition services and self-driving cars from companies such as Google LLC, ...

In yet another land grab, cloud computing king Amazon Web Services Inc. today took a giant step further into the inner sanctum of customers’ data centers. At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the Amazon.com Inc. cloud company announced Outposts, an on-premises data center system that’s based on the same hardware AWS uses to run ...

In another sign of Amazon.com Inc.’s broad ambitions in cloud computing, the company’s cloud company today debuted a new processor chip designed for machine learning. The chip, called Inferentia, will be available via Amazon Web Service Inc.’s EC2 computing service as well as its SageMaker AI service and Amazon Elastic Inference, a new service also ...