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.

Google today delivered second-quarter earnings that easily beat expectations on both profits and revenues.

StackPath, the new startup from SoftLayer founder Lance Crosby, launches today with the first of a broad suite of Internet security services.

Deep learning neural networks, software programs that attempt to emulate the way the brain’s neocortex works, have led to striking improvements recently in speech and image recognition and even game playing. But progress in this branch of machine learning has come in spite of the fact that today’s computers aren’t really built with the kind ...

Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., the two chip companies known for their respective dominance of personal computers and mobile devices, both reported higher-than-expected earnings. But the results prompted strikingly different reactions from investors. Intel today reported a second-quarter profit before certain expenses of 59 cents a share, higher than the 53 cents analysts expected. ...

Dialpad is announcing a raft of new features for its business communications platform to move deeper into the enterprise.

To no one’s surprise, shareholders of EMC Corp. today approved Dell Inc.’s $60 billion acquisition offer for the computer storage company.

On the eve of a shareholder vote on Dell Inc.’s proposed $60 billion acquisition of EMC Corp., both the storage company and especially its VMware Inc. computing virtualization unit reported better-than-expected second-quarter results. The results suggest Dell’s record high technology industry deal, which EMC shareholders are expected to vote to approve early Tuesday morning, will ...