You probably haven’t heard of Dialpad Inc. Marc Andreessen intends to change that. The well-known venture capitalist and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz today joined the board of Dialpad, a San Francisco-based startup that’s aiming to kill the traditional desk phone with its entirely cloud-based phone and communications system. Its founder and chief executive is ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo, the smart speaker with a Star Trek-style intelligent voice assistant called Alexa, is still something of a novelty for consumers to ask about the weather forecast or order products. Now it’s finding its way into the office. HipChat, the team chat application owned by Atlassian Corp. PLC, today announced a connection between ...

Despite continuing strength in the cloud computing business that has buoyed profits for the past year or more, Amazon.com Inc. today reported third-quarter profits that missed analysts’ expectations. The Seattle-based online retailer and cloud giant said it earned a profit of $252 million, or 52 cents per share. That was way above the 17 cents ...

Bolstered by ads on smartphones and YouTube, Google Inc. parent company Alphabet Inc. posted a 23 percent jump in profits on a similar rise in revenues for its third quarter. The company said it earned a profit before certain expenses such as stock compensation of $9.06 a share, up from $7.35 a year ago, on ...

Despite slowing sales of iPhones as consumers waited for new models, Apple Inc. today reported better-than-expected sales of the devices and forecast current-quarter results higher than Wall Street is forecasting. Still, it’s clear that Apple is still struggling with a broad decline in smartphone sales, which make up two-thirds of its overall revenues, as consumers ...

Microsoft Corp.’s cloud computing revenues shot up 116 percent, providing a big boost to fiscal first quarter earnings, the company reported today. Shares of Microsoft rose nearly 6 percent to reach an all-time high of about $60.60 in after-hours trading on the results, surpassing a record high of $59.56 set back in 1999. The software and ...

Women have made great strides working their way into technical positions at companies, but there’s still a very long way to go before they reach parity with men, especially in leadership positions. All that will surprise no one, but breakthrough executives such as IBM Corp. Chief Executive Ginni Rometty (above) shared a raft of anecdotes ...

“Pat, funny to see you here today.” Those were the first words out of the mouth of Andy Jassy (above left), Amazon Web Services’ chief executive, after he appeared onstage at a press conference Thursday with VMware Inc. CEO Pat Gelsinger (right). The wry comment was a reflection of the traditional rivalry between the largest ...

Leveraging a firm hold on the fast-growing cloud computing market, Amazon.com Inc. is now looking to intensify its incursion into the heart of the information technology industry: corporate data centers. Today, the retailer’s cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, announced a deal with onetime rival VMware Inc., whose widely used software allows multiple versions of the ...

Government subsidies for construction of data centers are far too high to justify the scant number of ongoing jobs they generate, according to a new report.