Despite a seeming glut of online collaboration services from Slack to Facebook Inc.’s Workplace and document sharing services such as Google Docs and Microsoft Corp.’s Office 365, Box Inc. thinks there’s still a gap among them waiting to be filled. Three years after introducing its Notes real-time document creation and sharing tool, the enterprise file ...

Like many other people in Silicon Valley on Inauguration Day Friday, Greg Sands found himself wondering with no small amount of trepidation about what kind of economy we’ll see under President Trump. And it wasn’t just because Sands, founder and managing partner of the early-stage venture capital firm Costanoa Ventures in Palo Alto, California, was ...

San Francisco-based startup Dialpad Inc. today is revealing new evidence that its mission to kill the traditional desk phone with a cloud-based phone and communications system is taking off. The company said it has added some 10,000 new customers in the past six months, bringing the total to 35,000. Among those added to the roster ...

As the ad tech boom of the past decade has wound down to a roll-up battle among tech giants ranging from Google Inc. to Salesforce.com Inc. to Oracle Corp., marketing technology has emerged as the next battleground. That’s one of several reasons Steve Lucas (left), who joined Marketo Inc. as chief executive in October, thinks martech ...

From an idea that seemed crazy just a couple of years ago, autonomous cars and related technologies have suddenly emerged as the prime focus of automotive activity, from Silicon Valley to Detroit to Tokyo and Beijing. To get a sense of what’s behind the technology and how automakers, suppliers and startups are pushing into the ...

Venture capitalists are taking a breather from the overheated pace of investment they set a couple of years ago. A slowdown in venture funding that began early last year is now glaringly apparent, according to the quarterly “MoneyTree Report” to be released Wednesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB Insights. It wasn’t until the third quarter that ...

Silicon Valley companies may be partly to blame for allowing Russia to exert undue influence on the U.S. presidential election, thanks to gaps in data security in a wide range of information technology products created in and around the Valley. Even President-elect Donald Trump, who some observers say benefited from Russian hacking of Democratic Party ...

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 ...