Flash storage provider Pure Storage Inc. beat back doubts about its growth today, reporting better-than-expected first fiscal-quarter profit and revenue thanks to stealing a march on traditional storage rivals and winning new business in cloud computing and analytics. The company reported a net loss of $62.4 million, or 30 cents a share, but adjusted for ...

Are my ads working? That’s the essential question that every company faces with its marketing. Today, Google Inc. is aiming to help them find out how their ads and other marketing are working with a new service unveiled today at its annual Marketing Next conference in San Francisco. Google Attribution, as the company has named ...

Playing catch-up with Facebook Inc., Google plans to make virtual reality and augmented reality more of a social experience in its next generation of headsets. The tech giant, which announced plans for its first standalone VR headsets Wednesday at its three-day I/O conference for developers, today unveiled a number of social features that will come ...

Updated with news and analysis: When Google Inc. held its last I/O developer confab a year ago, it looked like the tech giant had fallen behind rivals such as Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and even Microsoft Corp. on many fronts, from intelligent assistants and virtual reality to messaging and even mobile advertising. Not anymore. A flurry of ...

Just three months after introducing its massive Cloud Spanner database in beta test, Google Inc. today made it generally available across the world. Described as the world’s largest database, Google’s Spanner is a relational database, the kind that stores data in familiar related rows and columns. What sets it apart from many rivals, such as the Oracle Corp. Database, Microsoft Corp.’s ...

When some 7,000 software developers descend on Google Inc.’s annual I/O conference starting Wednesday, they’ll be hoping to hear what the tech giant has coming next, from the upcoming Android O mobile operating software to new features for its Home smart speaker, its Daydream virtual reality system and more. This year, the rumors about what ...

Nvidia Corp. rocketed to semiconductor fame with its graphics processing units that helped create the hottest gaming personal computers, but today its original market almost looked like an afterthought. The company introduced a powerful new chip at its GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, that’s tuned in a number of ways for what Chief ...

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 ...