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 ...

Updated: In the latest of a series of initial public offerings by enterprise computing companies, Pivotal Software Inc. late Thursday raised $497 million in its IPO, and its shares rose 4.9 percent on their first trading day Friday. That’s a relatively modest bump compared with 40 percent-plus pops experienced recently by the likes of Dropbox ...

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, ...