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 ...

Joining the parade of new initial public offerings of stock, Pivotal Software Inc. today filed papers to go public. The move appears to be a way that Dell Technologies Inc., the majority owner of the maker of software for building cloud computing applications, can make further strides to reduce massive debt incurred from its 2016 acquisition ...

File storage and collaboration service Dropbox Inc. saw its shares jump 36 percent today in the company’s first day of trading after its initial public offering of stock. Shares opened trading this morning at $29 a share after Dropbox priced its IPO Thursday afternoon at $21 a share, above an already higher range of $18 to $20 ...

For some time, networking capacity has been more of a bottleneck for online services than computer power. Today, Facebook Inc., which has some 2 billion users, is launching a new way to make sure sites and services can build the kind of networks needed to offer videos, photos and virtual reality experiences people are demanding. ...

Updated: Oracle Corp.’s come-from-behind battle to join the big leagues of cloud computing got another small boost today, but it wasn’t nearly enough for investors hoping for a faster ascent to the technology industry’s most sweeping trend. The database and business software giant, which has been in a multiyear transition from licensed software installed in ...

As ever more online activity continues to move to mobile devices, so do the ads — especially ads that aim to get people to install apps and games and buy goods inside them. Today, ahead of next week’s big annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Google is announcing a number of new mobile ad ...

President Donald Trump late today quashed Broadcom Ltd.’s $121 billion hostile bid to buy Qualcomm Inc., effectively ending a deal that would have upended the semiconductor industry. The President cited national security concerns in a White House statement, which read in part, “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that Broadcom Limited, a limited ...