Google will trot out cloud computing chief Diane Greene and a raft of new features at its global user conference starting Wednesday, in an effort to catch up to Amazon and Microsoft.

Andy Grove, the onetime Intel president, CEO and chairman who died Mar. 21, will be remembered not only for his business accomplishments but for applying his relentless intellect to causes such as US manufacturing jobs and Parkinson's research.

When Amazon.com launched its first Web service 10 years ago today, offering storage in the cloud, people thought it was yet another crazy, profit-nuking idea from Chief Executive Jeff Bezos. Why on Earth, investors and analysts griped, was a company still struggling with a marginally profitable retail business embarking on what looked like an entirely ...