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.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Google saved itself $3.7B in taxes in 2016 thanks to Irish legal loophole

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC reportedly saved itself $3.7 billion in taxes in 2016 after shifting around 16 billion euros between its accounts in Ireland, the Netherlands and Bermuda. The company exploited a couple of well-known legal loopholes in those countries that allow it to …

Microsoft submits patent for Phone Dock compatible with Apple’s iPhone

APPS By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. could be about to target the iPhone accessories market after submitting a patent application for a new peripheral device that’s intended to make phone calls easier for personal computer users. The MS PowerUser website says the patent was filed back …

Germany’s strict new social media hate speech law goes into effect

APPS By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Starting today, Germany plans to enforce a new law that compels social media companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to remove posts containing “hate speech” within a specific time frame or face fines of up to €50 million (around $58 …

Alibaba Cloud uses AI to combat congestion at Beijing’s busy international airport

EMERGING TECH By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

While most American tech firms are shutting down for Christmas, it’s business as usual in China, where Alibaba Cloud, the public cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology aimed at curbing delays in Beijing’s international …

Twitter adds a new enterprise software link for chatbots and customer service

APPS By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc. on Tuesday announced it’s making an enterprise version of its Account Activity application programming interface available to software developers. The new API will allow developers to build more sophisticated applications for businesses that want to engage with customers through chatbots, …

DocuSign acquires Appuri for its machine learning expertise

APPS By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

E-signature and digital transaction company DocuSign Inc. today agreed a deal to buy the technology assets and hire most of the staff from a machine learning startup called Appuri Inc. The terms of the deal, which will see DocuSign obtain rights to Appuri’s …

Google has built a machine learning model that can decide if images are pleasing to the human eye

EMERGING TECH By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Researchers at Google LLC are taking image recognition to the next level with an experimental machine learning model that can rank photos according to their aesthetic appeal. The new model, called Neural Image Assessment, is designed to assess which images humans are …

HyTrust touts new data discovery tool to secure virtualized environments

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Cloud computing security firm HyTrust Inc. is bolstering its portfolio with a new offering that enables enterprises to identify their most sensitive data and put safeguards in place to ensure it’s protected. The company said its new CloudAdvisor product is designed to …

Maana lands $28M funding to go after industrial data analytics

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Maana Inc. today said it has raised a $28 million late-stage funding round to expand its effort to win the data analytics market for the oil and gas industry. New investors China International Capital Corp., Eight Square Capital, Accenture Ventures and Sino Capital …

Amazon Web Services opens its first cloud region in France

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. is wrapping up a busy end of year with the opening of a new region in France. The AWS EU (Paris) Region is the company’s fourth region in Europe, alongside existing regions in Germany, Ireland …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Google saved itself $3.7B in taxes in 2016 thanks to Irish legal loophole

Microsoft submits patent for Phone Dock compatible with Apple’s iPhone

Twitter adds a new enterprise software link for chatbots and customer service

DocuSign acquires Appuri for its machine learning expertise

Google has built a machine learning model that can decide if images are pleasing to the human eye

Maana lands $28M funding to go after industrial data analytics

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