If you look strictly at declining information technology budgets, it might look like tech’s traditional mainstay “infrastructure” market — computing hardware, software and networking gear — is spiraling into insignificance. Indeed, it even looked that way to Martin Casado (pictured above), who cofounded the networking software startup Nicira Networks in 2009 before selling to VMware in 2012 ...

In the merciless world of consumer apps, pretty good uptake by users is never good enough. That’s why the Palo Alto, CA startup Pingpad Inc. today is pivoting its app, a lightweight social network for small groups to get things done, to the enterprise. Not only that, it’s pivoting onto the wings of Slack with ...

RackSpace Hosting Inc. had some news today, but not the big news investors had hoped for. The company, which provides managed cloud computing services to corporations, disappointed investors by issuing an outlook for slower growth for the rest of the year. Its shares, which had fallen 2.3 percent in trading today, fell about 1.8 percent in ...

Three people have left Google's self-driving car project, including tech lead Chris Urmson.

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 ...