In yet another addition to a growing roster of business-oriented social networks, Facebook at Work will launch next month, according to several reports. Facebook has been testing its enterprise messaging competitor to the likes of Slack Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Yammer and Skype since early 2015 with some 400 or so customers. A Facebook executive ...

Iguazio today is introducing what it calls a data platform-as-a-service, with an aim to untangle the mess of technologies that has hampered Big Data projects in large companies. The Israeli company’s Enterprise Data Cloud is essentially a software orchestra conductor that consolidates data into a repository and makes it available to many applications as files, ...

Open-source Big Data projects are failing to get into production at large enterprises thanks to rising complexity and a lack of talent to run them.

The branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning has led to breakthroughs in speech and image recognition, partly thanks to an almost accidental discovery that certain chips such as graphics processing units work really well for it. But just how well has been hard to measure. So today, the Chinese Internet company Baidu Inc. is ...

In his customary combative style, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison today spent more than an hour slamming Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing as inferior on several fronts to the software giant’s own cloud. Ellison (above), who had already thrown pointed barbs at Amazon Web Services Sunday evening in his first keynote at Oracle’s OpenWorld customer and partner ...

Some 80 percent of information technology budgets by 2025 will be spent on cloud computing, not traditional IT products, and the number of corporate-owned data centers will drop by 80 percent by then. That’s according to Oracle Corp. co-Chief Executive Mark Hurd, who issued a series of sweeping predictions about the impact of cloud computing ...

It’s no secret that Oracle Corp. was late to cloud computing, which founder and Chairman Larry Ellison in 2009 infamously called “complete gibberish.” Now, the company is looking to banish any doubts that it’s all-in on the cloud. On Monday, the database and business software giant will introduce, among many other new services, both an ...

Oracle's cloud computing revenues rocketed higher in its latest quarter, but continued declines in licensed business software put a lid on earnings.

Venture capitalists continue to see opportunities in markets such as AI and self-driving cars for startups.

Intel today said it will sell a majority stake in its McAfee security unit to the private equity firm TPG for $3.1 billion in cash.