Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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Despite ongoing data and privacy issues, Facebook’s business keeps rolling

Updated In case anyone had forgotten amid its unending data and privacy issues, Facebook Inc. actually is a business — one that keeps making a lot of money. The social networking giant proved that once again today. Facebook reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results, with a profit per share before costs such as stock compensation of $2.38 ...

Earnings outlook: Cloud, AI spending could boost tech giants’ growth – for now

Executives at Choice Hotels International Inc. realized years ago that they needed upgrade the company’s information technology systems — especially a global reservations system that, like many companies’ mission-critical systems, predated the internet. Ultimately, the owner of Quality Inn, Cambria Hotels and other chains settled on moving to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud — a ...
PREDICTIONS 2019

Ready or not, a lot more AI-powered services are coming

For a technology that’s decades old, artificial intelligence managed to emerge in the public imagination as one of the signature technologies of 2018 — if not always in a positive way. On the upside, AI and its related sets of technology such as machine learning and deep learning enable now-taken-for-granted services such as speech recognition ...
INTERVIEW

IBM on what’s coming in AI: more trust, less bias and a quantum boost

IBM Corp. is justly famous for pioneering work in artificial intelligence, even decades before its Watson computer beat a couple of “Jeopardy” champions. But in recent years, its work has been eclipsed at least in the public imagination by new AI-driven speech and image recognition services and self-driving cars from companies such as Google LLC, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE

In blockbuster cloud move, Amazon jumps into the data center with both feet

In yet another land grab, cloud computing king Amazon Web Services Inc. today took a giant step further into the inner sanctum of customers’ data centers. At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the Amazon.com Inc. cloud company announced Outposts, an on-premises data center system that’s based on the same hardware AWS uses to run ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE

Amazon debuts Inferentia, a custom machine learning prediction chip

In another sign of Amazon.com Inc.’s broad ambitions in cloud computing, the company’s cloud company today debuted a new processor chip designed for machine learning. The chip, called Inferentia, will be available via Amazon Web Service Inc.’s EC2 computing service as well as its SageMaker AI service and Amazon Elastic Inference, a new service also ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE

AWS Ground Station offers easier access to satellite data via cloud

Jumping deeper into a new market, Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it will offer easier and faster cloud access to data from space via satellite communications. AWS Ground Station, announced by the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit, will be what the company calls the first fully managed satellite ground station as a service. The Ground ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE

AWS beefs up its cloud with its own processor, and much more

Kicking off its annual re:Invent cloud conference with a bang Monday night, Amazon Web Services Inc. debuted among a wide array of new services a new cloud chip of its own design. Dubbed Graviton and available to its cloud customers through AWS’ EC2 cloud compute service, the Arm-based chip was designed by the chip developer ...

Pac-12 athletic conference goes long with AWS cloud services

A likely parade of new and expanded customers coming in the next week or so for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud offerings kicked off today with the Pac-12 Conference. The western athletic conference said today it’s going “all-in” on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud — AWS’ favorite term for customers that use an increasing number of its ...

Nvidia shares plunge after it misses earnings forecasts

Updated: Investors have been punishing graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. lately, its shares down by more than a quarter on concerns about growth forecasts. The spanking continued today. The Santa Clara, California-based maker of graphics processing unit chips used for gaming and artificial intelligence computing missed most Wall Street estimates both for the third quarter and ...