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

Conversation intelligence startup Chorus.ai raises $45M in Series C funding

Conversation intelligence firm Chorus.ai Ltd. has topped up its piggy bank today after raising $45 million in a new round of funding that takes its total amount raised to $85.2 million. Georgian Partners led the Series C round, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital and Redpoint Ventures, and new investors Sozo Ventures. Chorus.ai is ...

AWS will help Vector deliver cleaner energy in Australia and New Zealand

Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has formed a partnership with the New Zealand-based energy and gas distributor Vector Ltd. to create a new “internet of things” platform for the energy sector. The New Energy Platform, as it’s known, will be jointly developed by AWS and Vector as part of a new strategic alliance. The hope ...

Intel’s engineering chief Murthy Renduchintala departs following chip process delay

Intel Corp. Chief Engineering Officer Venkata Murthy Renduchintala seems to be taking the fall for the company’s failure to deliver on its next-generation products based on its seven-nanometer chipmaking process. The company, which revealed during its second-quarter earnings call last week that its 7nm chips are likely to be delayed, said today that Renduchintala (pictured) ...

HPE opens 5G test lab for telcos to validate next-generation networks

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. announced today that its new 5G network test lab for telecommunications providers is now open. The HPE 5G Lab, as it’s called, provides an environment for telcos to test and validate their 5G network products with HPE’s growing portfolio of 5G and services. HPE sees a big opportunity in 5G, and has ...

Box integrates with more Google cloud services

Box Inc. said today it’s expanding its partnership with Google LLC and its integrations with G Suite and Google Cloud services. The company said it plans to use Google Cloud for data storage and machine learning integrations with its Box Skills software framework, and will soon add support for Google Authenticator to enable some new ...

Intel’s stock falls as it delays its first 7-nanometer computer chips again

Intel Corp.’s stock took a beating in after-hours trading today after the company announced during in its second-quarter earnings call that its next-generation of computer chips will be delayed by six more months. The company said that it’s pushing back the launch date of its first central processing units built on a seven-nanometer process by approximately ...

Cybersecurity firm Check Point reports strong sales growth

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. saw its profit and revenue grow in the second quarter, though its earnings came in below analysts’ expectations. The Israel-based cybersecurity firm reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $196.4 million, or $1.38 per share, on revenue of $505.6 million, up 4% from a year ago. Wall Street was ...

Strong cloud growth helps Microsoft beat earnings expectations

Microsoft Corp. reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter financial results today that easily beat market expectations, once again showing strong growth within its cloud businesses. Still, the company’s shares dropped more than 2% in after-hours trading after it offered revenue guidance for the current quarter that came in lighter than anticipated. The Redmond-based firm reported diluted earnings of $1.46 ...

Google’s Firebase app development framework gets more updates

Google LLC today issued a series of updates to its Firebase application development platform aimed at making developers more productive. The updates came during the end of Firebase Live, a monthlong web series that started broadcasting in June. The series consisted of various tutorials and talks aimed at boosting developer’s productivity and helping them monitor their ...

Google launches its Recommendations AI tool for online retailers

Google LLC said today that its Recommendations AI tool is now publicly available in public beta test mode. Recommendations AI was first announced in private beta in April 2019, and relies on Google’s sophisticated artificial intelligence tools to help retailers deliver highly personalized recommendations to their customers. In a blog post, Google Product Manager Pallav ...