California CIO Set to Retire
Carlos Ramos, a veteran public-sector technology manager who held the state’s top IT spot for nearly five years, led agency consolidation efforts launched by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Oracle posted solid growth in its cloud computing businesses in the last quarter, even as it wrestled with the challenge of a strong U.S. dollar.
Worries of a coming shakeout are rippling through the ranks of Silicon Valley’s tech workers. Recruiters say prospective hires are sizing up highly valued startups and the stock awards that come with them, wary of boarding a sinking ship.
PlayStation VR will take a bit longer to become reality as Sony delays the launch of the virtual-reality system to October from June—giving competitors a head start on a technology expected to create a major market.
Amazon will launch the AWS Database Migration Service to help companies shift their data to the cloud.
Few Android phones are encrypted, and Google would like to change that. Handset makers, however, have resisted because they are concerned that encryption slows less-expensive phones.
Someone using official codes stole $100 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Fed over a recent weekend. Now, officials in four countries are trying to figure out what happened.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is expanding into cloud services to help companies analyze data such as photos, audio clips and comments on social media.
Columnist Christopher Mims writes that augmented reality, or AR, is the most exciting technology you’re ever likely to encounter, and it could transform how we interact with computers in the 21st century.
Huawei Technologies’ enterprise unit posted strong growth last year, driven by a number of deals outside its home market, the unit’s president said.
Niche players to large companies are rushing to meet consumers’ increasing demand to know more about what’s in their food. Firms are using websites and special codes that showcase where ingredients come from.
South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol beat Google’s AlphaGo computer software, after his third straight loss last week, in a five-game match between human and computer at the ancient Chinese board game.
Google is contributing designs for its high-voltage server racks to the Open Compute Project Foundation.
Ray Tomlinson, who helped create email and change the way the world communicates, died Saturday at age 74.
Twitter deleted posts that included market-sensitive inventory data from the American Petroleum Institute after the group complained.
Toyota Motor, looking to gain an edge in the auto industry’s race for technology talent, has recruited the staff at a small Massachusetts-based autonomous-vehicle company to work on its advanced projects.
Box posted better-than-expected quarterly results and upbeat guidance as the seller of Internet-based data storage reported its highest quarterly increase in billings as a public company.
About 47% worry the government won’t go far enough in monitoring terrorists’ communications, while 44% are concerned the government would go too far, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.