Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Gartner: Led by software, global tech spending will hit $3.8T in 2019

By Mike Wheatley Jan 28, 2019

Gartner Inc. today issued another forecast on global information technology spending, saying enterprises will splash out a combined $3.8 trillion on tech hardware, software and services in 2019. That would represent a 3.2 percent…

Policy

US charges Huawei with fraud and trade secret theft from American rivals

By Mike Wheatley Jan 28, 2019

China’s largest technology company, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., was slapped with criminal charges today by U.S. prosecutors who allege that it committed bank fraud to violate sanctions against doing business with Iran. The telecommunications…

AI

User engagement analytics firm Contentsquare raises $60M

By Mike Wheatley Jan 28, 2019

Contentsquare executives are rubbing their hands with anticipation after the company landed a hefty $60 million round of funding. Announced today, the Series C round was led by private equity firm Eurazeo, and it comes…

Cloud

SAP NS2 and Google team to deliver secure cloud services to the public sector

By Mike Wheatley Jan 24, 2019

SAP SE’s independent U.S. subsidiary SAP National Security Services Inc., which sells software and services for government infrastructure and national security agencies, said Thursday it has formed a new strategic partnership with Google LLC.…

Big Data

Western Digital earnings come up short, but stock eventually pops anyway

By Mike Wheatley Jan 24, 2019

Western Digital Corp.’s stock went on a roller-coaster ride late Thursday after the company posted disappointing fiscal second-quarter results that came in below expectations. The data storage firm reported earnings before certain costs such…

Cloud

Microsoft buys Citus Data to scale out its PostgreSQL services

By Mike Wheatley Jan 24, 2019

Microsoft Corp. looks to have made a useful acquisition today with Citus Data Inc., which builds products designed to make the PostgreSQL database faster and more scalable. PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database that comes…

Infra

Intel misses revenue targets, and with no new CEO, shares plunge

By Mike Wheatley Jan 24, 2019

Intel Corp. delivered a mixed bag as it reported its fourth-quarter financial results late Thursday, beating Wall Street’s expectations on earnings but missing targets with its revenue. The company also set new annual revenue…

Infra

Report: Intel to build massive manufacturing plant in Oregon for new chips

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2019

Intel Corp. could be about to break ground on an enormous extension of its D1X research and manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, paving the way for mass production of its next-generation seven-nanometer computer chips.…

AI

Facebook open-sources LASER encoder tech for natural language processing

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2019

Facebook Inc. has made another key contribution in its quest to accelerate the transfer of natural language processing applications to more languages. The social media giant today open-sourced a new PyTorch tool called LASER,…

Policy

Google led record-breaking tech industry lobbying blitz in 2018

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2019

Five of the biggest technology giants in the U.S. spent a combined $64.3 million on lobbying government officials in 2018, in a year that was notable for numerous congressional hearings, accusations of Russian interference…

Mike Wheatley

US charges Huawei with fraud and trade secret theft from American rivals

User engagement analytics firm Contentsquare raises $60M

Western Digital earnings come up short, but stock eventually pops anyway

Report: Intel to build massive manufacturing plant in Oregon for new chips

Facebook open-sources LASER encoder tech for natural language processing

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