You’re on Slack every hour of the waking day, or maybe it’s HipChat, or Microsoft Corp.’s Teams, or even Facebook Inc.’s Workplace. You do Hangouts or Zoom or WebEx video conferencing several times a day. And you’ve still got an email inbox that never stops growing. That’s the time-consuming, scattered situation for workers that Atlassian ...

Initial coin offerings, a method of crowdfunding using cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or custom coins or tokens, have exploded this year. A stunning $1.1 billion has been raised in 89 ICOs so far this year, 10 times as much as in all of 2016, and at least 110 more are planned this year. But some ...

It’s no surprise that cloud content management company Box Inc. keeps losing money as it chases growth, but the strategy means that investors get a little worried when results don’t keep smashing their expectations. That’s what happened today. Box announced that it lost 11 cents a share in its fiscal 2018 second quarter ended July 31, ...

Pivotal, which helps companies build software to run in public and private clouds, today announced a new service to deploy applications in software “containers” to run on Google Inc.’s cloud service and on VMware Inc.’s vSphere suite of virtualization services. The new Pivotal Container Service will enable companies to create software containers, which wrap applications in a ...

Every other day, it seems, a new startup is raising millions of dollars by selling cryptocurrency coins or tokens to raise money — lots of money, really fast. In May, for instance, Web browser startup Brave raised $35 million by selling its “Basic Attention Tokens” in under 30 seconds. Block.One, developer of the new blockchain ...

Storage technology startup Pure Storage Inc. today said it’s kicking Chief Executive Scott Dietzen upstairs to chairman and appointing veteran tech executive Charles Giancarlo its new CEO. The company, which makes large flash-memory storage systems, made the announcement as it also reported better-than-expected second-fiscal quarter results and current-quarter outlook. Shares jumped as much as 6 percent ...

Hoping to battle its way into contention with cloud computing leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure, Google Inc. today offered a new, cheaper way to get basic network access on its cloud platform. The Network Service Tiers, released today in early “alpha” test mode, provide the capability of Google’s cloud computing customers to ...

Hoping to help companies make sense of their growing crush of data, Box Inc. today announced a deal with Google Inc. to tap into the search giant’s artificial intelligence prowess. The file sharing and cloud content management company said it will use Google’s Cloud Vision technology, which uses machine learning to understand images, to surface ...

Cisco Systems Inc. marked another small step in its long slog toward becoming more of a software company with a seventh straight decline in quarterly revenue. The world’s largest maker of network switches and routers that move data over a large chunk of the Internet and large corporate networks said today that it earned a ...

Shares of VMware Inc. shot up more than 6 percent today as the maker of computer virtualization software announced it expects to report better-than-forecast earnings next week. The company, part of the Dell Technologies family of enterprise software and hardware, said it expects second-quarter revenue, to be reported Aug. 24, to come in between $1.894 ...