Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Slack adds new generative AI tools to enhance collaboration, automation and team work

Hot on the heels of Slack Sales Elevate and Slack GPT, Salesforce Inc. today announced yet more artificial intelligence capabilities in its collaboration tool with Slack AI, Workflow Builder and Slack Lists. Announced a week ahead of Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2023 conference in San Francisco, Slack AI adds generative AI-powered summaries, recaps and search capabilities to the ...

Upbound Spaces brings managed control planes to self-hosted computing environments

Upbound Inc., the startup behind the popular open-source Crossplane project, today announced a new self-hosting feature for its flagship control plane technology, enabling users to deploy managed control planes in self-managed computing environments. Upbound Spaces enables customers with rigorous compliance and data sovereignty requirements to benefit from the company’s Crossplane control plane technology. The launch of ...

Time-series database startup InfluxData debuts self-managed version of InfluxDB

InfluxData Inc., the startup behind the time-series database InfluxDB, today announced the general availability of a new version of its platform called InfluxDB Clustered. According to the company, it’s a self-managed flavor of InfluxDB that can be deployed in on-premises data centers and private clouds, optimized for high-performance real-time analytics. The open-source InfluxDB database is designed ...

Generative AI startup Harmonya raises $20M to squeeze more insights from product data

Harmonya Inc., a startup that’s enhancing consumer packaged goods and retail data with artificial intelligence to provide companies with fresh insights, said it has closed on a $20 million early-stage round of funding. Today’s Series A round was led by Bright Pixel Capital and saw participation from Team8, Arc Investors, J Ventures, Silicon Road Ventures, ...

Huawei’s latest smartphone showcases China’s chip manufacturing breakthrough

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has teamed up with China’s leading chipmaking firm, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., to build an advanced, seven-nanometer processor that sits at the heart of its latest flagship smartphone. A teardown of the new device issued today by analysts from TechInsights Inc. shows that the Huawei Mate 60 Pro is powered by a ...

OpenAI rival AI21 Labs raises $155M in funding

Generative artificial intelligence startup AI21 Labs Ltd. is rolling in money today after closing on a bumper $155 million Series C round of funding to fuel the growth of its large language model-based services. The round attracted some big name investors, including Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, Samsung Next, Google LLC, Nvidia Corp. and professor ...

Surprise earnings and revenue beat sends Pure Storage’s stock higher

Pure Storage Inc. topped Wall Street’s forecasts as it delivered its second-quarter results today and offered a sales outlook for the current quarter that came in above forecast, sending its stock higher in the after-hours trading session. The stock initially gained more than 3% in extended trading before retracting a bit for a 1% gain ...

Salesforce shrugs off economic pressure as it beats expectations and raises full-year guidance

Shares of Salesforce Inc. gained more than 5% in extended trading today after the company posted quarterly results and guidance that exceeded Wall Street’s estimates. The customer relationship management giant also raised its full-year forecast amid resilient demand for its cloud software offerings despite ongoing economic uncertainty. The company reported second quarter net income of ...

Couchbase jumps on the generative AI bandwagon with Capella iQ code generator

Cloud database company Couchbase Inc. has become the latest technology provider to integrate generative artificial intelligence into its flagship product. Today it announced a new capability it calls “Capella iQ” for its database-as-a-service offering, Couchbase Capella. According to Couchbase, it’ll help developers to write SQL++ and application code faster and more easily with AI-generated recommendations ...

Box’s stock falls as it reports narrow earnings beat and weak guidance

Shares of Box Inc. took a bit of a beating in extended trading today after the cloud content management firm reported second-quarter financial results that barely topped earnings and revenue estimates and followed up with soft guidance. Box reported net income of $10.8 million, with earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation coming to 36 cents ...