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 ...

Intel Corp. is reportedly considering a number of acquisition possibilities, including Broadcom Ltd., as an apparent attempt to discourage Broadcom’s own hostile bid for Qualcomm Inc. The Wall Street Journal late today reported that the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant is weighing the options because executives fear that a combined Broadcom and Qualcomm could create ...

Two companies disrupting the traditional data center today reported revenue growth of more than 40 percent in their latest quarters, pointing to accelerated interest in new storage technologies by both cloud computing providers and companies moving quickly into artificial intelligence applications. The companies, Pure Storage Inc. and Nutanix Inc., approach the data center market with ...

When the folks behind “Hamilton” wanted to build an app for the smash musical quickly last year, they turned to a little-known mobile software framework called Flutter that Google quietly previewed just a few months earlier to help developers create user interfaces more easily. Now, more developers will be able to use it. Today at the Mobile World ...

One of the most long-awaited initial public offerings of stock could finally happen soon, as cloud storage giant Dropbox Inc. today officially filed for an IPO. The company had reportedly filed confidentially to go public last month, but today, the Securities and Exchange Commission unsealed the plans. The offering could come as early as March ...

Cisco Systems Inc. broke a six-quarter streak of declining revenue, showing a 3 percent uptick in sales driven by its new products as well as strength in applications and security products. The revenue rise in the networking giant’s fiscal second quarter wasn’t entirely a surprise, since it had forecast a 1 to 3 percent improvement ...

The classic problem of companies that make or use technology is that they focus on the technology more than the people who use it. That needs to change quickly, according to a new report released early Wednesday by Accenture PLC. The management consulting and professional services company said key technologies, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing ...

Updated: Artificial intelligence is driving a lot of new services from internet giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC, Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — and they all need Nvidia Corp.’s graphics chips to power AI in their massive data centers. Once again, that was a key driver of Nvidia’s growth in its ...

Among the countless disruptions ripping across information technology, cloud computing stood out last year, and with the new year underway, its impact is only accelerating. That’s apparent once again today in earnings reports from Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. The two big As in tech – along with another, China’s Alibaba Group ...