Cloud Tech

Jan 16, 2017, 9:00 AM

Oracle opens second cloud accelerator program, attempting to court startups

Database giant and cloud contender Oracle has opened a cloud accelerator program in Tel Aviv, with the aim of helping… Read More

Jan 16, 2017, 8:18 AM

Salesforce’s Quip buys Unity&Variety to add visual elements to document-management tools

Quip, a maker of cloud-based document-management tools that is owned by Salesforce, has acquired Unity&Variety, a small San Francisco maker of productivity tools,… Read More

Jan 13, 2017, 10:05 AM

Microsoft buys Canadian deep-learning startup Maluuba to advance in natural-language processing

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company that uses deep learning to develop natural-language understanding, especially question-answering and… Read More

Jan 13, 2017, 8:04 AM

Amazon Web Services and Azure win higher federal security ratings to deal with national-security data

The public-cloud services offered by both Amazon and Microsoft have received new, higher levels of federal authorization to deal with… Read More

Jan 12, 2017, 10:20 AM

New Amazon Web Services initiative aims to build supply of trained AWS workers in UK

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest public-cloud company, has created enormous demand for AWS expertise at the growing number companies that… Read More

Jan 12, 2017, 9:00 AM

Microsoft releases StaffHub, an Office 365 app for shift workers without desks or computers

Microsoft today debuted StaffHub, a no-extra-cost Office 365 application meant to help staff workers manage their work day through shift-schedule management,… Read More

Jan 11, 2017, 3:38 PM

The ‘internet of oysters’: Microsoft Azure system uses underwater sensors and AI to boost shellfish yields

Tired of hearing about the internet of things? Well, how about the internet of oysters? The Yield, an agricultural-technology firm… Read More

Jan 11, 2017, 10:30 AM

Google Cloud looks to improve security with new encryption key-management services

Google Cloud Platform is moving to improve its cloud security, beta testing a variety of encryption key-management services that would let… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 3:48 PM

Greenpeace USA slams Amazon, lauds Microsoft and Google for their renewable-energy use

Public-cloud giant Amazon Web Services, along with Netflix and Samsung, is still lagging in its use of renewable energy, Greenpeace… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 1:42 PM

Enticed by market projections, wireless carriers start vying to serve the ‘internet of things’

The emphasis within the much-hyped “internet of things” is often on the things themselves, whether those are sensors, self-reading electric… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 11:59 AM

Seattle startup lands role in hit musical ‘La La Land,’ but not how you’d think

I haven’t seen multiple Golden Globe-winner “La La Land” yet, but according to everyone who has, the opening scene is… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 8:24 AM

Thriving application-container market to grow 40% per year, hitting $2.7B by 2020, researcher says

The move toward containers — bundled application components that simplify developing and deploying software across different platforms and devices — is… Read More

Jan 9, 2017, 10:02 AM

Amazon Web Services quietly buys cybersecurity startup Harvest.ai to bolster cloud protections

Amazon Web Services has stealthily acquired San Diego-based cybersecurity startup Harvest.ai to bolster cloud security for its end-users, according to an investor… Read More

Jan 6, 2017, 9:20 AM

As cloud computing grows, the market for commercial servers, switches and routers declines

As cloud computing grows and swells the coffers of companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, it’s instructive to also note… Read More

Jan 5, 2017, 4:10 PM

You could win $25,000 in FTC’s contest for Internet of Things cybersecurity thingies

The Internet of Things can be a rough neighborhood, as October’s massive botnet attack illustrated – and so, in an attempt… Read More

Jan 5, 2017, 10:11 AM

‘I just have to pinch myself’: The Linux Foundation is still adjusting to AT&T’s embrace of open source

LAS VEGAS — “AT&T is an open-source software company now — I just have to pinch myself.” That’s how Linux… Read More

Jan 4, 2017, 3:15 PM

The internet of beds? Microsoft exec teases the future of IoT, which could include 50 billion devices

LAS VEGAS — You may have heard about the internet of cows, but we may soon see the internet of beds… Read More

Jan 4, 2017, 9:29 AM

Cloud computing revenues jumped 25% in 2016, with strong growth ahead, researcher says

The year 2016 was the first in which cloud computing started to dominate many IT market segments, with cloud revenue… Read More

Jan 3, 2017, 9:20 AM

Why this early Amazon investor bet on Jeff Bezos’ vision, and how the tech giant created its ‘flywheel’

In early 1995, when Amazon.com was still just an idea in Jeff Bezos’ head, a lawyer friend of venture capitalist Tom… Read More

Jan 2, 2017, 10:02 AM

Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services expands pricing API in new effort to show cost savings

The ability to choose from a wide range of computing and storage services is one of cloud computing’s big draws,… Read More

Jan 2, 2017, 6:49 AM

The Cloud in 2017: Seven key trends, from AWS and Azure to voice services and machine learning

Here’s a no-brainer: 2017 will be a big year for the cloud. Cloud computing is an innovation rivaling the advent of… Read More

Dec 27, 2016, 12:14 PM

‘OpenStack is not going to be an Amazon killer’: Open-source cloud tech faces U.S. market realities

The year 2016 has been huge for the big public-cloud providers, with Amazon Web Services on track to a $12-billion… Read More

Dec 26, 2016, 8:14 AM

Analytics startup CloudMoyo grows to 200 people a year after Icertis spin-off

In a computing landscape where the word “cloud” figures into most every conversation and company name, the name CloudMoyo stands… Read More

Dec 23, 2016, 12:01 PM

2016’s parting gift is an extra second of time — and Amazon has a last-minute cloud fix

Look, we all know it’s been a tough year. A divisive presidential campaign; celebrity deaths including David Bowie, Prince and Leonard… Read More

Dec 23, 2016, 7:40 AM

Container startup ClusterHQ calls it quits, citing duplicated efforts

ClusterHQ, a San Francisco-based container-products startup, is shutting down operations effective immediately, chairman Mark Davis wrote in a blog post entitled… Read More

Dec 19, 2016, 3:28 PM

How Starbucks is using artificial intelligence to connect with customers and boost sales

Imagine pulling into a Starbucks drive-thru and seeing not just your drink order but your name on the screen — along… Read More

Dec 16, 2016, 3:20 PM

Machine Reading? Microsoft releases giant Q&A dataset to help researchers build AI tools that read and answer questions as well as humans

MS MARCO may sound like the name of a giant ocean liner (and, in fact, the MS Marco Polo does… Read More

Dec 16, 2016, 1:38 PM