Robert Hof

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

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

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 down about 16 percent in midday trading, to …

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

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 opportunity iguazio Systems Ltd. is chasing, aided by a …

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

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 search giant Google Inc. said today that it …

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

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 today, which took an expected hit from a …

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

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 computer and services giant reported a profit before …

Zeta buys AI startup Boomtrain to boost marketing cloud

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 to consumers. Zeta, a marketing technology company that …

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

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 z14 (pictured, with IBM distinguished engineer Karl Casserly, …

Baidu taps into latest Nvidia graphics chips for AI in the cloud and cars

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Nvidia Corp. and Baidu Inc. today announced they’re teaming up to bring the processing power of Nvidia’s latest graphics chips to artificial-intelligence services in the Chinese Internet giant’s services, in particular self-driving cars. The two companies said at Baidu’s annual Create conference …

Baidu updates benchmark for rating chips on deep learning

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Less than a year after debuting a way to measure how well various processor chips can train computers to learn using neural network models, Baidu Inc. today updated the benchmark tool to gauge how well the chips actually run those models for jobs such …

Google will stop scanning Gmail messages to target ads

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

In a move driven by its enterprise business operation, Google Inc. said today it will stop scanning messages in its free Gmail service to target ads later this year. In one of the more controversial aspects of its services, the search giant …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

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

Baidu updates benchmark for rating chips on deep learning

Google will stop scanning Gmail messages to target ads

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