CLOUD COMPUTING

Altoona, a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, gets another big high tech project.

A survey finds a quarter of U.S. companies in China face data theft.

Red Hat, the biggest seller of open-source Linux software, will make products available to the open-source community to speed cloud applications.

Amazon said it had bolstered its fastest-growing unit, Amazon Web Services, by adding AWS OpsWorks, design software tools.

Global digerati generate data they store on Dropbox, Box, Sugar Sync and others. Are they IPO-worthy?

International Business Machines will partner with Germany’s SAP in a new global service for the cloud and “big data."

Technology spending should rise 5.6 percent to $3.7 trillion, Gartner (NYSE:IT) predicted, with strongest gains coming from cloud technologies.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) announced a deal with STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and Shaspa for "smart homes."

Computer graphics icon Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) debuted its new cloud gaming hardware, the Nvidia GRID, at CES on Sunday.

2013 could be brighter for technology IPOs if the likes of Cloudera, Xtera, Dropbox, Cvent and Acquia take the plunge.

Netflix's video streaming service was hit by an outage on Christmas Eve, a prime movie-watching night, because of a breakdown at Amazon cloud servers.

Microsoft says there aren't enough professionals to meet the demand.

Gigya, a web infrastructure company, has introduced a unique solution to the mounting concern of protecting user privacy and social data: listing industry standard best practices, and approving different companies with a social privacy certification and seal.

Cisco will shift its focus to software and cloud-oriented technologies, CEO John Chambers said -- a tack that should boost growth.

Egenera is acquiring the cloud software firm Fort Technologies to expand its front-end enterprise cloud services.

SugarSync, the provider of virtual storage in the cloud, introduced a service to allow customers to synchronize data using all versions of smartphones.

Amazon Web Services, the cloud-based unit of Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced an upgrade to offer data warehousing to enterprises.

Worldwide platform as a service (PaaS) revenue is estimated to reach $1.2 billion by the end of 2012, up from $900 million in 2011, a latest Gartner report stated.

Reddit and a slew of other social services are down due to an issue with Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute Network in North Virginia.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has acquired the cloud storage company StorSimple in an effort to expand its new cloud-based platform, Azure.

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is expected to report lower third-quarter revenue, but earnings should rise at least 5%.