Artificial intelligence and gaming once again boosted the fortunes of Nvidia Corp. as the maker of graphics chips reported better-than-expected results for the eighth quarter in a row. In its first fiscal quarter reported today, the company earned a profit of $507 million, or $533 million before certain expenses such as stock compensation, equaling 85 ...

Straddling the often-competing worlds of data center hardware and the cloud, Dell Technologies today sought to convince customers it’s best positioned to help them move to cloud computing without giving up their own machines that still largely run their businesses. The company, which now offers everything from Dell servers to EMC storage to cloud software ...

News analysis Oracle Corp. sought to position itself once again today as the one best place for everything companies need to move to cloud computing. Speaking at a media day Thursday at its Redwood Shores, California, headquarters, executives at the database and business software giant distanced Oracle from public cloud leaders such as Amazon Web ...

What slowdown? Thanks once again to mobile ads, especially video ads, Facebook Inc. today managed to beat back worries that running fewer ads on its pages might finally bring the social network’s advertising business down to earth. Facebook said it earned a net profit of $3.06 billion, or $1.04 a share, up 76 percent from a year ago. ...

Docker Inc. has made containers one of the buzziest developments in information technology today, allowing applications to move easily across many computing and software environments. But they’re still viewed with some trepidation by IT folks uncertain about their complexity and security. Those are some of the challenges new Chief Executive Steve Singh (pictured) aims to ...

Just weeks after being appointed president of Intel Corp.’s Data Center Group, longtime Intel executive Diane Bryant is taking a leave for six to eight months, the company announced today. Intel attributed the leave to the need for Bryant (pictured) to tend to an unspecified “personal family matter,” and a spokesperson declined to provide additional ...

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. lost well over a quarter of its valuation in the first 20 minutes of after-hours trading Tuesday after reporting a lower-than-expected outlook and “changes in the relationship” with its largest customer, Uber Technologies Inc. Twilio, whose software-as-a-service enables software developers from the likes of Uber and second-largest customer WhatsApp to ...

Updated with more analyst and competitor comments: An increasingly acquisitive Cisco Systems Inc. Monday announced plans to buy Viptela Inc., a five-year-old upstart rival maker of software to create companywide data networks without the cost of dedicated hardware. The acquisition, for $610 million in cash and assumed stock awards, is expected to close in the second ...

Two bellwether technology giants, Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., that are increasingly competing with each other in the fast-growing cloud computing market each reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings today. Alphabet, parent company of Google Inc., reported a net profit of $543 billion, or $7.73 a share, up from $4.21 billion or $6.02 a share a year ...

Amazon.com Inc. sometimes doesn’t show up on lists of top leaders in artificial intelligence alongside Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and IBM Corp. That’s about to change. Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos recently revealed in his annual letter to shareholders that he views machine learning, the branch of AI teaches computers to learn without ...