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 ...

Firing new shots at cloud computing rivals such as Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp., Amazon Web Services today checked off more boxes to make it easier for large enterprises to develop cutting-edge applications and move them to its cloud. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing operation unveiled a raft of new services, including faster access to data ...

In an apparent concession that virtual and augmented reality are taking longer than expected to blossom, Facebook Inc. today announced a raft of more pragmatic VR and AR services and partnerships that it hopes will jumpstart both. For one, the company today at its F8 developer conference in San Jose, California, announced Facebook Spaces (pictured), ...

In its first big foray into video, the news aggregation app and website Flipboard Inc. today launched video packages from major publishers and said it will let advertisers run industry-standard video ads. Although the company, which aggregates material from selected online publishers and presents them in curated and user-created magazines, has had video, of course, ...