Jay Greene writes about Microsoft and the growing business of cloud infrastructure. Before joining the Journal, Jay covered Amazon for the Seattle Times, was Seattle bureau chief for BusinessWeek and was an investigative reporter at CNET. He authored the book "Design Is How It Works," and he likes playing hockey. Follow him on Twitter @greene.
T. Rowe Price, which has stood in the way of Oracle’s $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite, said it would tender its shares in favor of the deal if Oracle sweetens the offer by $2 billion.
LinkedIn Corp. posted solid but decelerating revenue growth in its third quarter, highlighting a key reason for its pending merger with Microsoft Corp.: Expanding its market.
Too often, technology is too hard to for the masses to use because the products are made by engineers who don’t give much thought to how average consumers will use them, says Automattic’s John Maeda.
Microsoft is expanding its hardware portfolio to challenge Apple’s iMac with a new, 28-inch touch-screen computer called Surface Studio.
WhatsApp remains committed to user privacy despite a recent move to start sharing some data with parent Facebook that alarmed some users and regulators, co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton said.
Kobe Bryant sees parallels between his hall-of-fame basketball career and his new role as a venture capitalist.
Amazon.com’s top cloud computing executive said that even with last week’s massive internet outages, the web remains the most secure place for companies to run their computing.
How a synthetic version of our genetic code could become the world’s most efficient hard drive.
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella is pushing the company to shed its not-invented-here approach and learn where it can improve.
Shares of Microsoft jumped to an all-time high Friday in the wake of a positive earnings report, nearly 17 years after setting its previous high-water mark in the heyday of the dot-com boom.
The software giant’s cloud-computing businesses kicked into high gear, as sales of its Azure service more than doubled. Overall revenue, which has slid for each of the past five quarters, also grew in the period.
Microsoft is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings after the market closes Thursday. Here’s what you need to know ahead of that.
Amazon.com’s cloud-computing unit signed a deal with VMware Inc. to offer companies the ability to run their computing operations on both their own VMware-equipped data centers and Amazon’s web-based servers.
Oracle gave NetSuite shareholders one more month to approve the $9.3 billion deal, or the software giant said it would end the takeover agreement.
Microsoft is concentrating its artificial-intelligence efforts under one roof as veteran executive Qi Lu stepped down to focus on recovering from a bicycle accident.
Adobe Systems Inc. threw some weight behind Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computing efforts Monday, making the software giant’s Azure technology the “preferred” service for some of its offerings to business customers.
Before police say he shot five people dead in a Macy’s Friday night, Arcan Cetin was already known in the small island city where he lived -- as a troubled young man with an affinity for guns.
An intense 24-hour hunt for the man suspected of shooting and killing five people at a mall north of Seattle came to an uneventful and abrupt end when he was found walking down a street in his home city.
LinkedIn rolled out new technology and products Thursday to keep members on its network longer, a move that could help generate more data and make it more valuable to Microsoft.