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, ...

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, ...