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 ...

Venture capitalists and other investors are still pouring lots of cash into startups despite a volatile stock market, according to a new report.

Amazon.com Inc. stepped up its attack on the information technology industry today, offering some new cloud computing services along with pointed barbs at big traditional tech firms.

Despite worries from the U.K.'s Brexit vote, one part of the IT industry is likely to keep shining: cloud computing.

When the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced its fifth fund a month ago, Managing Director Scott Kupor said the theme for the $1.5 billion fund would remain the same as the previous four: Software is eating the world. The notion, articulated originally by cofounder Marc Andreessen (pictured) five years ago, is that software is disrupting ...

It’s not clear when or how Big Data software and the companies selling it will cross the chasm into mainstream corporate use.

Google added another small piece to its cloud platform today with the acquisition of video streaming company Anvato Inc. Anvato sells software that automates encoding, editing, publishing and distribution of video for companies such as NBCUniversal, Univision, Fox Sports and Media General. Google, whose cloud business still trails far behind those of Amazon.com and Microsoft, clearly hopes ...

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is tightening the company's executive ranks anew as Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink has announced his retirement.

As the first big data company to go public, Hortonworks Inc. has been a natural target for both competitors and investors — never more than now. The Santa Clara (Calif.) company sells subscriptions and services for its Hortonworks Data Platform, which is built upon the open source software Apache Hadoop for storing, processing and analyzing ...

Twilio goes public in first venture-backed IPO this year, but don't expect many more anytime soon.