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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Salesforce Essentials adds new communication channels for SMBs

Customer relationship management software giant Salesforce.com Inc. is giving small and medium-sized businesses new ways to communicate with their customers with its Salesforce Essentials product. Salesforce Essentials is a more lightweight version of the company’s main product, designed especially for SMBs. The new capabilities include integrations with popular social media channels such as Facebook Messenger ...

Amazon debuts a new cost optimization tool for its EC2 service

Amazon Web Services Inc. today rolled out a handy new feature for customers who may be concerned about overspending on its cloud infrastructure services. The new feature is called EC2 Resource Optimization Recommendations, which, as the name suggests, helps users to optimize the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud resources they use. It may not be the ...

ServiceNow slumps as subscription revenue comes up short

Wall Street darling ServiceNow Inc. hit a bump in the road today as its second-quarter subscription revenue and outlook for the next quarter fell short of analysts’ expectations. The company did at least beat estimates on profit and total revenue. The company, which sells information technology service management software, posted earnings before certain costs such ...

Morpheus Data adds Kubernetes service to its cloud management platform

Cloud management company Morpheus Data LLC updated its platform today with new capabilities that make it easier to build, deploy and manage Kubernetes-based container applications. Morpheus Data provides management capabilities for various private and public cloud platforms. Its platform is primarily designed for companies that operate “hybrid” strategies, where they have workloads running across multiple cloud ...

Microsoft wants to ‘open-source’ data sharing among companies

Microsoft Corp. today proposed a number of data-sharing agreements for companies that want to share information across different computing systems and services. At present, sharing of information is a bit of a messy business because of a lack of consistent and standardized terms and licensing agreements, Microsoft said. To try to fix the problem, the ...

DOJ launches yet another antitrust probe into big tech firms

The U.S. Justice Department is launching yet another probe into big technology companies to determine if the most dominant firms, including Google LLC, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., are stifling competition in the industry. The investigation comes at a time when the U.S. tech industry is already facing intense scrutiny, with regulators both at home ...

Google refines its AI-based chatbot tools to improve speech recognition

Google LLC today announced some updates to the artificial intelligence technology that powers its Contact Center AI service. Based on Google’s Dialogflow and Cloud Speech-to-Text tools, that service enables companies to create virtual agents that can handle many basic customer requests and assist their human customer service teams. Google’s Dialogflow is a cloud-based service based on ...

Networking software startup Arrcus raises $30M in Series B round

Software-defined networking startup Arrcus Inc. said today that it has raised $30 million in a new funding round that brings its total capital to raised to $49 million. The oversubscribed Series B round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst and Clear Ventures. Arrcus emerged from stealth mode last ...

IBM open-sources AI algorithms to help advance cancer research

IBM Corp. has open-sourced three artificial intelligence projects focused on cancer research. In a blog post today, IBM researchers Matteo Manica and Joris Cadow, who work with the company’s Computational Systems Biology group in Zurich, noted that cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with an estimated 18.1 million new cases diagnosed in 2018 ...

Docker announces general availability of Docker Enterprise 3.0

Docker Inc. said today that the new version of its flagship container application development platform is now generally available. Docker Enterprise 3.0, which entered beta in April, is an enterprise-grade version of the company’s open-source tools, which enable developers to build container-based software applications. Containerized apps are popular with developers because they can run on ...