Cloud content management firm Box Inc. today introduced a couple of new features in hope of making it even easier for customers to store all their data in its service. One set of features is updates to its Admin console, including a new dashboard (pictured) that makes it easier for Box administrators to see where ...

These days companies often issue new releases and updates of their software several times a day to millions of users in the cloud, and no matter how much they try to make sure it will run flawlessly, it’s nearly impossible to guarantee it. That’s all the more true today because companies are increasingly using many ...

Pivotal Software Inc. a maker of software for building cloud computing applications, today revealed how much it plans to raise in its imminent initial public offering of shares: up to $592 million. Majority-owned by Dell Technologies Inc., Pivotal said in a filing that it will offer 37 million shares at $14 to $16 a share, ...

A recent surge of initial public offerings of stock by a variety of technology companies has raised hopes that the iconic symbol of Silicon Valley wealth creation is finally on the comeback after years of fitful activity. Aaron Levie, chief executive of cloud content management company Box Inc., thinks those hopes are justified, thanks to ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced two new marquee customers of its cloud services, image publishing service Shutterfly Inc. and vehicle services firm Cox Automotive Inc. They’re just the latest examples of new customers that Amazon.com’s cloud unit has been trotting out since at least last fall’s AWS re:Invent conference, where it announced at least ...

A week after DocuSign Inc. was reported to have filed confidentially for an initial public offering of stock, the electronic signature company today pulled the trigger. The S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission is the latest signal that tech IPOs could be on a rebound after several years in the dumps. On Friday, ...

Docker Inc. founder and Chief Architect Solomon Hykes has left the enterprise software provider a year after it hired a new chief executive, former SAP SE exec Steve Singh, to replace Ben Golub. Hykes said in a blog post today that although he will no longer be involved in daily operations, he will help find a ...

Nvidia Corp. has been riding a surging business in recent years as its graphics chips turned out to work really well for a branch of artificial intelligence that has led to breakthroughs in speech and image recognition and self-driving cars. Now, it’s aiming to stay atop what has become a scramble to provide everything from ...

For years, Google has offered the ability to convert text to speech on a number of its services, such as search, Maps and Google Assistant. Now, it’s offering the capability as a service in its cloud. The company today announced other companies can now try out Cloud Text-to-Speech in their own services. Google’s newest machine ...

Dropbox’s initial public offering began Thursday evening, just a couple of hours after a stock market rout that slashed more than 740 points off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Uh-oh. Yet when Dropbox’s shares started selling to the public starting Friday morning, a day when the market would fall an additional 425 ...