The company looked to be in an unfixable decline when he took over in 1993—and changed its focus from hardware to services.

One of the greatest Filipino entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, died in Stanford, California, on Dec. 25, 2025, from a debilitating neurological disease. He was 79.

Robust.AI co-founder Rodney Brooks, a pioneering roboticist and co-creator of the widely selling Roomba robot vacuum, ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...

Tim Berners–Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working at CERN in Geneva. Credit: CERN. to meet the demand for automated information sharing between scientists ...

IBM is betting $11 billion that real-time data infrastructure will become as critical to AI deployments as databases were to enterprise applications. The company's just-announced acquisition of ...

Installed as an outsider, he engineered a comeback, shifting the company’s focus from a waning mainframe computer business ...

IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a ...

Confluent is being acquired by IBM for $11 billion in cash ($31 per share) IBM wants to expand its cloud, data, and AI infrastructure offerings Confluent’s total addressable market and revenue has ...

IBM said Monday it's buying data streaming platform Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion that will help bolster the technology company's artificial intelligence strategy. The two companies said they ...

IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to bolster its data and automation products as ever more companies move their tech operations to the cloud and ...

IBM doubles down on AI infrastructure with its biggest software bet in recent years. IBM on Monday announced it will acquire data streaming platform Confluent in an all-cash deal valued at $11 billion ...