At its developer conference today, Intel Corp. today charged full-bore into what it view as the next big tech markets: virtual reality and the Internet of Things.

Nvidia Corp. reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on the strength of GPUs for deep learning neural networks.

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise today said it will acquire the high-performance computing company SGI, once the high-flying 3-D workstation maker Silicon Graphics.

If you look strictly at declining information technology budgets, it might look like tech’s traditional mainstay “infrastructure” market — computing hardware, software and networking gear — is spiraling into insignificance. Indeed, it even looked that way to Martin Casado (pictured above), who cofounded the networking software startup Nicira Networks in 2009 before selling to VMware in 2012 ...

In the merciless world of consumer apps, pretty good uptake by users is never good enough. That’s why the Palo Alto, CA startup Pingpad Inc. today is pivoting its app, a lightweight social network for small groups to get things done, to the enterprise. Not only that, it’s pivoting onto the wings of Slack with ...

RackSpace Hosting Inc. had some news today, but not the big news investors had hoped for. The company, which provides managed cloud computing services to corporations, disappointed investors by issuing an outlook for slower growth for the rest of the year. Its shares, which had fallen 2.3 percent in trading today, fell about 1.8 percent in ...

Three people have left Google's self-driving car project, including tech lead Chris Urmson.

Big Data is still producing big losses for Hortonworks Inc. as lower-than-expected revenues caused its stock to plunge more than 25 percent in trading today after the market close. The company’s president since 2012, Herb Cunitz, also is leaving. Hortonworks, one of the few publicly held Big Data companies, said Cunitz will be seeking a ...

Facebook is opening a 22,000-square-foot hardware labs at its Menlo Park, CA headquarters, in sign of the social network's intention to make hardware as well as software.

San Francisco startup Attic Labs today is announcing Noms, a new kind of decentralized, open-source database.