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Tech valuations have been whipsawed by rising interest rates, steep inflation and economic uncertainty—but not so much in enterprise software. Demand is holding steady as businesses continue to reorient themselves around cloud computing and data, CIOs say.Information-technology companies including International Business Machines Corp., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Oracle Corp. have shown resilience amid a rout in technology stocks. All three have so far…

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Nvidia NVDA 5.08% may be the chip company for the metaverse, but even they can’t escape the real world sometimes. Financial results for Nvidia’s fiscal first quarter ended May 1 came in ahead of expectations, at least in the key business segments of videogames and data centers. Revenue surged 46% year over year to about $8.3 billion and adjusted operating earnings jumped even more, by 55% to a record high of nearly $4 billion.…

DAVOS, Switzerland—Fears of an economic downturn have lately gathered steam. Corporate executives at the World Economic Forum here struck a mostly gloomy tone to match.“There is a cycle of mood,” said Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir Technologies Inc. “You walk around and everyone thinks it’s going to be bad, so it’s going to be bad.” Mr. Karp isn’t alone, but the pessimism he says he’s picking up among other CEOs also isn’t uniform. “It will be…

Anthem Inc.’s chief information officer says he is working with Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud to create a synthetic data platform that will let the health insurance company better detect fraud and offer personalized care to its members. Anil Bhatt said the plan is to use algorithms and statistical models to generate approximately 1.5 to 2 petabytes of synthetic data, including artificially generated data sets of medical…

If the sun is setting on Facebook, then TikTok is dancing in the moonlight. How long can its short-form video hold consumers’ fickle attention? Just a few years ago, China-based ByteDance’s TikTok was an app for kids, with videos of anthropomorphic pets or freakishly talented children dancing. Now it seems like everyone is using it, no matter their age. Its growth has come at the expense of its competition, such that just about every social-media company is now pouring money into copycat…

The transaction to acquire Switch for $34.25 a share was unanimously approved by a special committee of Switch’s board. Photo: Pavlo Gonchar/Zuma Press…

WASHINGTON—Tech-industry representatives are coming to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the remote-work trend will lead to more offshoring of software developer and other technology jobs unless the U.S. admits more high-skilled immigrants.Remote jobs in tech jumped by more than 420% between January 2020 and last month, growth that was intensified by the pandemic, according to a jobs data review by Tecna, a trade group for regional tech councils. In February, more than 22% of all tech jobs were listed as remote,…

With a seemingly bottomless feed of goof-offs, dance-offs and good-natured pranks, TikTok bills itself as the happiest place on the internet.Fueling its success: an exacting management style and demanding internal culture that belie its buoyant public image, say employees at its U.S. offices. The employees, many of them veterans of other major tech companies, say TikTok emphasizes relentless productivity and secrecy to a degree uncommon in the industry. As TikTok continues its torrid growth, those conditions…

At least 15 advertising-technology companies had sufficient information to detect that publisher Gannett Co. GCI 3.19% provided inaccurate data to advertisers for more than nine months, but the firms failed to connect the dots and alert their clients, according to researchers who studied the incident.Gannett, owner of USA Today and news outlets in 46 U.S. states, said it unintentionally provided the wrong information in online ad auctions, due to an error that affected…