When Google and Facebook report first-quarter earnings this week, their massive spending on data centers and big data analytics will underly their dominance in online advertising.

Struggling to contend with dropping demand for personal computers, Intel Corp. said today it will lay off up to 12,000 workers, or 11 percent of its workforce, by the middle of next year.

Bill Campbell, one of the most influential mentors in Silicon Valley, has died, leaving an unmatched legacy of companies from Apple to Google to Intuit that he helped turn into world-changing forces. “Coach,” as Campbell was known not only for his onetime job as a football coach at Columbia University but also his coaching of ...

In an interview with SiliconANGLE, Facebook open source chief James Pearce explained the company's approach to contributing to open source projects.

Facebook brought its drive for universal access back down to Earth with two new wireless broadband projects announced at its F8 developer conference today.

Amid an ambitious 10-year roadmap that Facebook laid out at its annual F8 conference for developers and business partners today, nothing was more ambitious than its bet on messaging.

Facebook may still be a social network, but its not-too-distant future belongs squarely in two other forms of online interaction: messaging and live video.

As if it weren’t already obvious that Amazon.com’s Web services business is a bonafide blockbuster, the company has cemented the reality by elevating its boss’ title. Andy Jassy’s position will change from senior vice president to chief executive of Amazon Web Services. At the same time, Amazon has given the same CEO title for its ...

Unconvinced that fully autonomous cars are ready for the road, Toyota is taking a more measured approach toward a “guardian angel” car that would seize control only when an accident is imminent.

Five years after its Watson supercomputer beat the champions of Jeopardy, IBM aims to help the poster boy of artificial intelligence become a little more human. This year, IBM will focus on a number of technologies intended to enable Watson to detect emotions in written human communications, Rob High, chief technology officer at IBM’s Watson ...