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Microsoft Corp. is betting on the zero-trust approach to computer security that was first advanced by its rival Google LLC, with a whole swath of updates announced at Ignite 2021 today aimed at extending the protection it offers to data, devices, identities, platforms …
Zoom says it won’t stop growing yet as it crushes earnings expectations
Zoom Video Communications Inc. provided few surprises today as the videoconferencing phenom posted another strong quarter, beating analysts’ forecasts on earnings and revenue and capping off an unprecedented year of growth propelled by the coronavirus pandemic. The company reported a fourth-quarter profit before certain …
Despite beating earnings expectations, Workday sees its stock fall again
Workday Inc. saw its stock fall sharply in after-hours trading today despite posting strong fiscal fourth-quarter results that included quarterly revenue from subscriptions passing $1 billion. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 73 cents per share …
Salesforce beats forecast on 20% revenue growth, but lower guidance hits its stock
Salesforce.com Inc. reported strong fourth-quarter financial results today, beating expectations as its business continued to benefit from the COVID-19-driven rise in remote work. However, Salesforce’s stock plunged in after-hours trading as executives warned that its planned $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack Technologies …
Dell crushes Wall Street’s expectations again on strong PC sales
Dell Technologies Inc. enjoyed another strong quarter as it beat expectations thanks to high demand for personal computers and other equipment that enables remote work. The company reported its fiscal fourth-quarter financial results today, posting a profit before certain costs such as …
Anaplan brings its business planning tools to Amazon Web Services’ cloud
Anaplan Inc. said today that it’s making its suite of business planning and forecasting services available on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. Anaplan sells an enterprise platform that’s used for all kinds of business planning purposes. The offering is centered …
Elastic beats earnings expectations on strong SaaS growth
Enterprise search provider Elastic NV saw its stock lose more than 4% in after-hours trading today despite posting strong quarterly financial results that beat expectations and raising its full-year guidance. The company reported a fiscal third-quarter loss before certain costs such as …
Pure Storage and NetApp beat expectations thanks to strong cloud storage growth
Pure Storage Inc. and NetApp Inc. both had a surprise in store for shareholders today, posting quarterly financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations despite ongoing weakness in their primary data center storage hardware market. Pure Storage, which is best known for …
Nvidia logs record revenue thanks to data center and gaming businesses
Computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. pulled out all the stops as it delivered strong fiscal fourth-quarter financial results today, posting record revenue in its main Data Center and Gaming business segments. The strong gains ensured that Nvidia topped Wall Street’s expectations by …
Google Kubernetes Engine goes serverless with new Autopilot Mode
Google LLC said today that it’s bringing some more automation to its popular Google Kubernetes Engine service to relieve some of the headaches around infrastructure management and let users focus more on their workloads. GKE is a cloud-based management and orchestration service …