Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

Elon Musk says Apple rejected an offer to buy Tesla on the cheap

By Mike Wheatley Dec 23, 2020

Elon Musk said today that Apple Inc. declined an offer to buy Tesla Inc. at a bargain-basement price during the company’s “darkest days.” Musk’s tweet, which came in response to reports that Apple is…

Cloud

Google blames last week’s outage on Google User ID Service error

By Mike Wheatley Dec 23, 2020

Google LLC said today that a simple “zero” error was responsible for taking its global authentication system offline and preventing users from accessing Gmail, YouTube and its cloud services for more than an hour…

Security

Tech firms unite to combat the growing threat of ransomware

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2020

Microsoft Corp., Citrix Systems Inc. and McAfee Corp. are heading up a coalition of security firms, tech companies and nonprofits that aim to combine their expertise, resources and tools to combat the growing threat…

IoT

Honeywell buys Sparta Systems for $1.3B to move into life sciences

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2020

Software industrial giant Honeywell Inc. said today it’s buying life sciences software company Sparta Systems Inc. for $1.3 billion in order to expand the reach of its Honeywell Forge platform. With annual revenue of…

Cloud

Cisco buys Dashbase to brings logs and events analytics to AppDynamics

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2020

Cisco Systems Inc. announced today it will acquire events and logs analytics startup Dashbase Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Dashbase, whose software is used by enterprises to pull in log data from various real-time…

IoT

VergeSense raises $12M to help companies create safer and more productive offices

By Mike Wheatley Dec 22, 2020

Workplace analytics provider VergeSense Inc. said today it has closed on a $12 million round of funding as it bids to help companies get back to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tola Capital led…

Infra

Verizon teams up with Deloitte on 5G mobile edge infrastructure

By Mike Wheatley Dec 21, 2020

Verizon Communications Inc. subsidiary Verizon Business said today it’s teaming up with the professional services consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. to offer 5G and mobile edge computing services to the manufacturing and retail industries.…

Apps

SoftBank launches its first special-purpose acquisition company

By Mike Wheatley Dec 21, 2020

As expected, SoftBank Group filed to launch a special-purpose acquisition company today, saying it plans to raise $525 million to invest in an unnamed technology company. The Japanese investment giant, which is known for…

Emerging Tech

Report: Apple aims to get its self-driving car on the road by 2024

By Mike Wheatley Dec 21, 2020

Apple Inc. is aiming to produce an electric car by 2024 and it may feature a “breakthrough” battery design that makes it cheaper to run and gives it longer range that existing vehicles of…

Cloud

Mimik and IBM team up to make edge computing resources more accessible

By Mike Wheatley Dec 21, 2020

Edge computing startup mimik Technology Inc. is collaborating with IBM Corp. to create edge-based computing resources that it says will help to accelerate automation and digital transformation in healthcare, manufacturing, retail and other industries.…

Mike Wheatley

Elon Musk says Apple rejected an offer to buy Tesla on the cheap

Google blames last week’s outage on Google User ID Service error

Tech firms unite to combat the growing threat of ransomware

Honeywell buys Sparta Systems for $1.3B to move into life sciences

SoftBank launches its first special-purpose acquisition company

Report: Apple aims to get its self-driving car on the road by 2024

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