Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

As its cloud growth eases, Amazon suffers a big miss on profit

By Robert Hof Jul 27, 2017

This time, the cloud didn’t save the day for Amazon.com Inc. Thanks to big spending on fulfilling e-commerce orders and on technology and original shows for its video operation, the tech giant saw its…

Apps

Facebook’s ad machine keeps rolling as profit jumps 71%

By Robert Hof Jul 26, 2017

It’s hard to find much that’s going to slow down Facebook Inc. — least of all in its second-quarter earnings announced today. Thanks to continuing strong mobile ad sales, now 87 percent of revenue,…

Apps

Moving beyond mentors: Google launches studio to help AI startups scale up

By Robert Hof Jul 26, 2017

Venture capital investors can’t get enough of startups focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning, with some $18.4 billion invested in AI startups since 2012. At the same time, it’s an especially tough field…

NEWS

As Seagate earnings come in way short, CEO Steve Luczo is out

By Robert Hof Jul 25, 2017

Longtime computer disk drive leader Seagate Technology PLC will have a new chief executive later this year after it badly missed quarterly earnings forecasts announced today. Surprised investors hammered the company’s shares, which are…

Big Data

Iguazio raises $33M to push its data analytics platform for the edge

By Robert Hof Jul 25, 2017

Not every company can move all its operations to the cloud, especially as myriad connected devices produce loads of data that’s slow and costly to ship back to central clouds for analyzing. That’s the…

Cloud

Alphabet beats earnings forecast despite EU fine, but investors aren’t impressed

By Robert Hof Jul 24, 2017

Alphabet Inc. handily beat quarterly earnings forecasts today despite taking an expected multibillion-dollar hit from an antitrust fine, but investors appear more worried about future challenges for the Internet giant. The parent company of…

Infra

As iPhone manufacturers sue Qualcomm, its earnings get slammed by Apple dispute

By Robert Hof Jul 19, 2017

As much as Apple Inc.’s iPhone has boosted Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s fortunes for years, it’s now coming back to bite the mobile chip making giant. That’s apparent in the chip maker’s fiscal third-quarter earnings reported…

Cloud

IBM beats profit estimate but revenue falls for 21st straight quarter

By Robert Hof Jul 18, 2017

Twenty-one straight quarters of declining revenue: No wonder investors are getting a little weary of IBM Corp.’s turnaround attempt, dubbed “tedious” by one analyst Monday. Today’s second-quarter earnings report didn’t change anybody’s mind. The…

Big Data

Zeta buys AI startup Boomtrain to boost marketing cloud

By Robert Hof Jul 18, 2017

Hoping to add another crucial piece to its cloud marketing services, Zeta Interactive Corp. today said it’s buying Boomtrain Inc., a five-year-old marketing technology startup that uses machine learning to send personalized brand notifications…

Infra

In an era of relentless data breaches, IBM focuses new mainframe on ‘pervasive’ encryption

By Robert Hof Jul 17, 2017

IBM Corp. will debut the newest in its decades-long series of mainframe computers for mainstream transaction processing Monday, this time focusing in particular on better protection of more data wherever it resides. The IBM…

Robert Hof

Moving beyond mentors: Google launches studio to help AI startups scale up

As Seagate earnings come in way short, CEO Steve Luczo is out

As iPhone manufacturers sue Qualcomm, its earnings get slammed by Apple dispute

Zeta buys AI startup Boomtrain to boost marketing cloud

In an era of relentless data breaches, IBM focuses new mainframe on ‘pervasive’ encryption

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