Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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Crypto crash: Despite a strong quarter, Nvidia shares fall on disappointing forecast

Nvidia Corp. has been flying high for years thanks to big demand for its graphics chips in gaming, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, but that means even a small dip in altitude can upset investors. That’s what happened today, when the Santa Clara, California-based company reported its fiscal second-quarter results and said revenue from cryptomining systems ...

Google adds in-app messaging and more to its Firebase mobile platform

Ever since Google LLC bought the Firebase mobile app database service in 2014, it has been adding more capabilities to make it a full-fledged development platform for creating mobile and web apps that can then run on, for example, Google’s cloud computing platform. Today, it’s announcing new capabilities aimed at making Firebase more useful not ...

Cisco shares jump 6% on yet another quarter of revenue growth

Updated: Cisco Systems Inc. showed a little more traction today in its attempt to become more of a subscription- and software-driven business as revenue grew year-over-year for the third straight quarter.   The computer networking giant said fiscal fourth-quarter revenue rose 6 percent, to $12.8 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet had reckoned $12.77 billion, in ...

Lawsuit accuses Oracle of misleading investors on cloud computing growth

Almost five months after Oracle Corp. surprised investors with more disappointing growth in its cloud computing services, a lawsuit filed Friday claims executives lied about the nature of that growth. The suit, filed by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP on behalf of the City of Sunrise [Florida] Firefighters’ Pension Fund, alleges that executives issued “false and misleading” press ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT

Google reportedly talking with partners to bring its cloud to China

It’s no secret that Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has been angling to get the company back into China, and now those efforts may extend to its cloud services. According to anonymous sources cited in a report Friday afternoon by Bloomberg, the company is in talks with internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., cloud and ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT

Amazon beats profit forecast thanks to expense control and – what else? – cloud computing

Once again, cloud computing as well as strength in core retail operations helped lift Amazon.com Inc.’s profits in its latest quarter above the already heady forecasts of Wall Street. The retail and cloud computing giant today reported a second-quarter net profit of $2.5 billion, or $5.07 per share, up from just $197 million a year ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT

In conversation: AWS serverless chief Tim Wagner peers at the future of cloud computing

As the lead story of SiliconANGLE’s Cloud Special Report makes apparent, serverless computing is the next big disruption the cloud is bringing to computing, freeing software developers from the hassle of managing hardware, software and networking technologies. Essentially, serverless technology executes software functions automatically based upon an event triggered by a human or by a program, ...

Despite $5B EU fine, Alphabet smashes earnings forecasts

To no one’s surprise, Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc. today reported that its advertising business continues to roll, but a $5 billion fine recently imposed by the European Union wiped out a large chunk of its net profit. Moreover, Google’s “other revenues” besides advertising, the large majority of which are its cloud computing operations as ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT

Special report: What’s on the horizon for cloud computing

Cloud computing is only a dozen years old, at least in its modern sense, but as software eats the world, there’s little doubt anymore that it’s the blazing center of information technology. Think about it: Sure, you love your iPhone, but it’s a slick little brick without thousands of apps to run on it. And ...

Google opens its cloud marketplace to outside Kubernetes applications

The open-source Kubernetes software has made it possible to automate the management of applications in containers, a way of running software unchanged across different kinds of computers and clouds. But initially deploying apps on clusters of computers running Kubernetes still requires a lot of manual work. That’s what Google LLC is aiming to start fixing ...