Technology Industry

Wall Street Beat: Internet stocks under the gun

Fierce competition among social media and e-commerce companies, and the need to spend money, are making investors nervous

Samsung wants to talk about your health at event on May 28

A week after Samsung's event, Apple is expected to launch a health-related mobile app at its Worldwide Developers Conference

Wearable devices with health IT functions poised to disrupt medicine

The data that wearables can provide excites doctors, although the health care system isn't ready for the technology

Oracle, Oregon officials once discussed faulty website technology as Healthcare.gov fix

Oregon has since scrapped its site, Cover Oregon, and will use the federal Obamacare site

Oracle will allow customers to swap on-premises software for cloud services

The move follows a similar one by rival SAP

Cornell Tech-funded startup launching bootcamp for data scientists

The Data Incubator program is designed to make science and engineering PhDs better data scientists and quants

Fast, cheap and easy: Five IT certifications that won’t break you

Here's a shortlist of relatively easy-to-obtain and inexpensive certs that are valued by employers.

Retailers plodding toward accepting higher-security payment cards

Online private car rental services driving to gain ground in Europe

Competition heats up as users flock to new services

Twitter more than doubles its sales, but still can’t turn a profit

Twitter reported a net loss of more than $132 million for the first quarter