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Apple Sees Record Earnings, Lion Out Tomorrow
Apple held its earnings call today, and reported stellar results for its third quarter. The company has seen an 82 percent increase in revenue compared to last year’s $15.7 billion: it generated $28.57 billion, a record breaking number that easily surpassed analysts’ average expectation of $24.92 billion. Apple’s profit was up 124 percent this quarter ...
Google News Taps Gamification to Enhance Social Side
Gamification, the implementation of a certain game-like mechanisms to improve business, is a much wider trend than one would think. It has proven to be effective for many companies including startups that are based their offering wholly on this concept, and Google is the latest one that is trying to take advantage of it. The ...
IBM Breaks Wall Street Expectations for Q2
IBM held its earnings call today, topping analysts’ average expectations at $25.4 billion in revenue. The tech industry veteran reported 12 percent year-over-year growth up to $26.7 billion in revenue, and also raised its full-year earnings forecast to at least $13.25 a share compared to analysts’ average estimate of $13.21. “In the second quarter our ...
Intel Feels the Burn as Mobile and Cloud Bite into PC Sales
Smartphones, tablets and countless cloud services that eliminate the need to store or view data from one particular device are biting into PC sales, and every company down the supply chain seems to be feeling the effects. Intel is no exception: stocks are down in light of investor concerns over the economy. As mobile competition ...
Survey: VMware Holds Lead in Virtualization. Citrix, Microsoft Trail Behind
A new study called the V-Index, commissioned by virtualization management vendor Veeam and carried out by research firm Vanson Bourne, provides a look into the split-up of the virtualization market. It found that 58 percent of companies that deployed x86 virtualization software, 92 percent of 540 respondents chose VMware vSphere as their primary hypervisor. Citrix’s ...
How the Pentagon Hack May have been a Result of an E-mail Scam
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III admitted in a Cybersecurity keynote last week that hackers managed to steal over 24,000 Pentagon files, most likely from a defense contractor. He did not disclose a lot of details about the incident, but hinted towards “foreign introducers” that managed to get their hands on “satellite communications systems, ...
SeaMicro Introduces More Eco-friendly Servers with Latest Launch
SeaMicro, a four year old start-up that develops servers designed for web companies that need to perform smaller loads for reduced power costs, released the third generation of its offering. The update comes just a few months after the previous version was debuted. This time, SeaMicro managed to increase computing power by 50 percent while ...
This Week in the Cloud: From vSphere 5.0 to Dropbox
This week featured several major developments from the enterprise to the consumer cloud, first and foremost the announcement that VMware vSphere 5.0 will be available in late August. The cloud OS features several improvements to existing APIs, and the addition of a new one dedicated for array management, among other things. SiliconANGLE covered the vSphere ...
Android is Good Business for Google, and Oracle Too
Android has grown from being the underdog of the smartphone industry to the number one mobile platform in terms of market share, and it seems Google has managed to maintain this momentum. This week several examples of that surfaced, starting with the debut of two new Gingerbread-powered LG devices: the Optimus Pro and the LG ...
NordicANGLE: How a Wider Market Influences Game Developers
The Nordic region, and in particular Finland, has spurred several major game development studios that are responsible for some of the most popular titles on the globe. This is apparently because the local companies are designing their offerings for the international consumer rather than the local one due to the sheer size of the market, ...