Oracle Corp.’s attempt to become a cloud computing leader still hasn’t taken off as much as investors had hoped. That’s apparent following its fiscal second-quarter earnings reported today. Even though both profit and revenue beat forecasts, Oracle saw its shares fall by nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading as its cloud computing revenue growth fell slightly short of ...

Less than six months after going public, storage firm Tintri Inc. today said it’s considering a sale of the company following a second straight quarter of disappointing results. In a surprise move, the Mountain View, California-based company said during its third-fiscal-quarter earnings conference call that it’s looking at a potential sale or options to reduce ...

Google LLC can’t operate its signature search engine in China, but that’s not stopping it from pursuing another tech initiative in the country: artificial intelligence. The search giant today said it’s opening a research center in China, several months after it was advertising to hire AI and machine learning experts there. It made the announcement ...

Hoping to get more software developers to use its cloud services, IBM Corp. today announced more than 100 packages of software code that can be used to create chatbots, application containers, blockchain applications and more. IBM noted that the proliferation of open-source software has made it more complex for developers to figure out which code ...

Updated After disappointing investors in the last couple of quarters, big-data pioneer Cloudera Inc. today managed to win some of them back with a favorable third-quarter earnings report. In its third quarter since going public in April, Cloudera reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of $23.2 million, or 17 cents a ...

Fetch Robotics Inc. is announcing early Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in a new funding aimed at meeting accelerating demand for its warehouse robots. The San Jose, California-based company is one of the leaders of a new army of “collaborative robots” that work closely alongside humans — in Fetch’s case, mostly in warehouses, ...

Marketing technology firm Zeta Global today said it’s buying social discussion platform Disqus Inc., in the largest of its 11 acquisitions to date. San Francisco-based Disqus provides a commenting system for 4 million websites and reaches 2 billion unique visitors a month, producing 17 billion page views. Chief Executive David Steinberg, a co-founder of Zeta ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. came into its sixth annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas with a fairly dominant lead in the foundational cloud computing services that are sweeping across the information technology industry. If anything, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit exited the five-day show, which ended Friday, looking even stronger. More than that, AWS Chief Executive Andy ...

Alexa is headed to the office. Her job: reinventing information technology at every business. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit today announced that its voice assistant, currently residing mostly on its Echo line of smart speakers in people’s kitchens and living rooms, will be coming to business offices. Alexa for Business is intended to be used ...

Cloud computing was supposed to make corporate information technology a lot simpler, and in many ways it has — but as the cloud itself has exploded, so too has the complexity of managing all the pieces. That’s the problem Amazon Web Services Inc. signaled that it’s attacking in force today. In a wide-ranging series of ...