Hoping to latch onto a potential growth market, Intel Corp. today sought to show how its processor chips can drive the coming explosion of virtual reality experiences. Speaking at an unusual press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show, which gave reporters a chance to view demos through high-end Oculus Rift VR headsets, Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich ...

As if 2016 weren’t volatile enough for the technology industry, the coming year is likely to be even more interesting, thanks to everything from an unpredictable new U.S. president to a confluence of trends ranging from artificial intelligence to virtual reality to the continued rise of the cloud. This is the latest in a series ...

Red Hat Inc. just hit a rough patch, and it may take the open-source enterprise software bellwether at least another quarter to dig its way out. That’s the upshot of third-quarter earnings reported today. Revenues for the quarter ended Nov. 30 came in below analysts’ estimates, and the company’s fourth-quarter outlook also missed expectations. As ...

Next year could see the flurry of new initial public offerings of stock, including some top prospects in enterprise and cloud technologies, that were supposed to happen in 2016 but didn’t materialize. That’s according to a new report out today from the venture capital research firm CB Insights. Of course, there was a healthier number ...

Oracle Corp. today showed more progress in its drive to become a leading player in cloud computing, but it fell short of analysts’ expectations for its fiscal second-quarter revenues. As a result, in trading after the market close, Oracle’s shares were falling about 2 percent. In regular trading today, shares declined a small fraction of ...

On the list of frustrating office technologies, videoconferencing surely ranks near the top. BlueJeans Network Inc. aims to change that with a new service it’s announcing today. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s service, called Huddle, is a cloud video system that BlueJeans promises will add easy videoconferencing to any room at a relatively low cost. Huddle’s ...

Coupa Software Inc. easily beat earnings expectations today in its first quarterly report since going public in October. The maker of cloud-based software to help companies manage their spending saw its shares rise more than 7 percent in after-hours trading following the third-quarter report. That came after a drop of 1.5 percent in regular trading, ...

In a major expansion of its ambitions to lead the next era of computing, Amazon.com Inc. today announced a number of initiatives intended to bring cloud computing down to Earth. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit, which provides storage, computing and related services over the Internet to nearly 5 million companies and organizations, unveiled several ...

Doubling down on an already big bet on artificial intelligence, Intel Corp. today announced a series of new hardware and software products and partnerships intended to position itself as the key driver for what it believes is the next wave of computing. “We want to drive the AI computing era,” Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich ...

Still contending with a difficult transition from its core networking hardware to software and security services, Cisco Systems Inc. today reported slightly better-than-expected profits on nearly flat revenues but forecasted lower earnings in the current quarter. The maker of networking gear and software earned a profit for the first quarter of its fiscal 2017 of ...