cloud computing

Cloud software services provider j2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM) jumped more than 12 percent Monday after the company announced its preliminary second quarter 2012 financial results and a proposed $250 million in senior unsecured notes Monday before the opening bell. More than four times the average...

IBM is building a new data drive that will allow its buyer to do just that. The client has not been announced, but according to Technology Review (via Popular Science), IBM (NYSE: IBM) is constructing a data storage array that will consist of 200,000 individual (interlaced) hard drives. When...

Following the announcement of its new cloud service earlier this year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has now launched the beta version of its iCloud website. The website - www.icloud.com - now loads a login screen with an iCloud badge carrying the "Beta" signature. Apple's service will allow users to store...

While the announcement of a Facebook video chat was not market moving, some news coming out of the conference can actually have an impact on your portfolio. Facebook said that the company is going to build more data centers, as opposed to leasing them going forward. A few related names in this...

Toyota (NYSE: TM) recently just sold its one-millionth Prius hybrid in the United States. However, the Japanese automaker isn't resting on its laurels. The company wants to bring telematics to a vehicle near you. The burgeoning technology brings telecommunications and information/data...

Once the darling of Wall Street, Microsoft is the reason its founder, Bill Gates, became the richest man in the world (although mostly due to the fact that Sam Walton dividing his Walmart (NYSE: WMT) stake to his children after he died) until overtaken by Carlos Slim, the Mexican tycoon who is the...