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.

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DigitalOcean posts solid earnings beat as demand for developer cloud accelerates

Cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. posted its first quarterly financial results today, beating Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported second quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 2 cents per share on revenue of $103.8 million, up 35% from one year ago. That was better than expected. Analysts had modeled break-even earnings ...

Datadog stock sees fat gains as analytics firm easily beats earnings forecasts

Shares in the data analytics and monitoring company Datadog Inc. gained more than 14% late today on the back of soaring revenue growth. The company reported a second-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 9 cents per share on revenue that surged 67% from a year ago, to $233.5 million. That helped ...

Dropbox’s revenue and customer base grows again, and its stock gains after-hours

Dropbox Inc., the cloud file-sharing company, saw its stock rise in extended trading as it delivered strong second-quarter financial results today and solid growth across several key performance metrics. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 40 cents per share on revenue of $530.6 million, up 13.5% from a year ...

MindTickle bags $100M funding for its role playing-driven sales readiness platform

So-called sales readiness technology provider MindTickle Inc. is running with the unicorns today after landing a $100 million Series E round of funding. The round was led by SoftBank with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan, NewView Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. It follows a previous $100 million raise led by SoftBank last November, ...

Qualys partners with Red Hat to secure OpenShift and CoreOS

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. is joining forces with Red Hat Inc. to beef up security for enterprise Linux and Kubernetes deployments. In particular, Qualys will bring its Cloud Agent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS on Red Hat OpenShift, it said today. The move should help to better secure both systems, the company said. ...

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics provides more intelligence for customer service calls

Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its AWS Contact Center Intelligence offering with a new call transcription analytics tool that it said can generate more insights from customer conversations. Announced today, Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is a machine learning-powered conversation insights application programming interface. It’s meant to work with the existing Amazon Transcribe tool that’s ...

Western Digital crushes expectations in Q4, shipping record enterprise HDD capacity

Western Digital Corp. put in a strong shift at the end of its fiscal 2021 year, with growth across all of its businesses driving fourth quarter results that beat expectations. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.16 per share on revenue of $4.9 billion, up 15% from the same ...

VMware Horizon gets Universal Brokering for enhanced virtual desktop connectivity

VMware Inc. has announced some updates to its virtual desktop infrastructure and desktop-as-a-service platform Horizon that it says will make it easier to manage hybrid and multicloud environments. More specifically, today’s updates should help information technology teams that have to manage fleets of virtual desktops and applications at a time when remote work policies remain ...

Dismal guidance sends Alteryx stock tumbling after-hours

Big data company Alteryx Inc.’s stock tumbled in after-hours trading today after it offered an outlook that was some way below Wall Street’s expectations. That came after a strong second quarter performance. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 8 cents per share on revenue of $120 million, up ...

New Relic beats expectations but slow customer growth weighs on stock

New Relic Inc., the observability software provider, delivered strong first quarter results today with a smaller than expected loss and revenue that came in ahead of Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 25 cents per share on revenue of $180.5 million, up 11% from a ...