Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

Google’s healthcare business Verily lands $1B in new funding

By Mike Wheatley Jan 3, 2019

Verily Life Sciences LLC, a healthcare-focused company that’s owned by Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., is getting a big financial boost in the form of a $1 billion round of financing led by private…

Emerging Tech

Google’s experimental Fuchsia OS will be able to run Android apps

By Mike Wheatley Jan 3, 2019

Google LLC’s experimental operating system Fuchsia, which might one day replace Android on smartphones and the like, will be able to run existing Android software applications, should it ever see the light of day. That…

Big Data

Microsoft working on tool called Project Bali to give web users control over their data

By Mike Wheatley Jan 3, 2019

Researchers at Microsoft Corp. are working on a new privacy tool that would give users the ability to control what happens to the data that’s collected about them online. Called Project Bali, the tool…

Apps

Windows 10 passes Windows 7 to become world’s most popular desktop OS

By Mike Wheatley Jan 2, 2019

Microsoft Corp. has been given a boost as it kicks off the New Year with news that its Windows 10 operating system has finally surpassed Windows 7 in the desktop popularity stakes. That’s according…

Apps

Stock market tanks as Apple slashes iPhone sales forecast

By Mike Wheatley Jan 2, 2019

Updated: Apple Inc. today sent tremors through the tech industry and Wall Street after slashing its sales forecast for the first time in 17 years. The company said a faster-than-expected economic slowdown in China…

IoT

Google wins FCC approval to roll out Project Soli radar motion sensing technology

By Mike Wheatley Jan 1, 2019

Google LLC has won permission from U.S. government regulators to deploy its Project Soli radar motion sensing technology in the real world. The decision by the Federal Communications Commission late Monday means that Google…

Apps

Google Duo reportedly testing group calls, low-light features

By Mike Wheatley Dec 31, 2018

Google LLC may be working on new features for its Google Duo video calling application, which allows users to make calls in high definition even as it’s optimized for low-bandwidth connections. The new features,…

Policy

Google wins dismissal of lawsuit alleging facial recognition abuse

By Mike Wheatley Dec 30, 2018

A long-running lawsuit filed against Google LLC over its alleged abuse of its facial recognition systems was dismissed Saturday by a Chicago court. The plaintiffs in the case, which dates back to March 2016,…

Big Data

NEC to acquire Danish IT company KMD for $1.2B

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2018

Japan’s information technology systems company NEC Corp. said today it’s acquiring Denmark’s KMD Holding in a deal valued at 8 billion Danish Kroner ($1.22 billion). The deal, which is NEC’s second-largest acquisition ever, is…

Infra

Trump considers executive order to ban purchases from Huawei and ZTE

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump is taking another stab at Chinese technology firms Huawei Technology Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp. Trump is looking at issuing a new executive order that would ban U.S. wireless carriers…

Mike Wheatley

Google’s healthcare business Verily lands $1B in new funding

Google’s experimental Fuchsia OS will be able to run Android apps

Stock market tanks as Apple slashes iPhone sales forecast

Google wins FCC approval to roll out Project Soli radar motion sensing technology

Google wins dismissal of lawsuit alleging facial recognition abuse

NEC to acquire Danish IT company KMD for $1.2B

Trump considers executive order to ban purchases from Huawei and ZTE

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