Robert Hof

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

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‘You are locked in, baby’: Oracle’s Larry Ellison redoubles attack on Amazon Web Services

In his customary combative style, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison today spent more than an hour slamming Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing as inferior on several fronts to the software giant’s own cloud. Ellison (above), who had already thrown pointed barbs at Amazon Web Services Sunday evening in his first keynote at Oracle’s OpenWorld customer and partner ...

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd predicts sweeping, costly move to the cloud

Some 80 percent of information technology budgets by 2025 will be spent on cloud computing, not traditional IT products, and the number of corporate-owned data centers will drop by 80 percent by then. That’s according to Oracle Corp. co-Chief Executive Mark Hurd, who issued a series of sweeping predictions about the impact of cloud computing ...

Oracle’s Larry Ellison unveils new cloud services at OpenWorld: ‘Amazon’s lead is over’

It’s no secret that Oracle Corp. was late to cloud computing, which founder and Chairman Larry Ellison in 2009 infamously called “complete gibberish.” Now, the company is looking to banish any doubts that it’s all-in on the cloud. On Monday, the database and business software giant will introduce, among many other new services, both an ...

Oracle’s earnings fall short despite jump in cloud revenues

Oracle's cloud computing revenues rocketed higher in its latest quarter, but continued declines in licensed business software put a lid on earnings.

Top venture investors still betting on startups in AI, self-driving cars

Venture capitalists continue to see opportunities in markets such as AI and self-driving cars for startups.

Intel sells majority stake in McAfee to private equity firm TPG

Intel today said it will sell a majority stake in its McAfee security unit to the private equity firm TPG for $3.1 billion in cash.

Intel buys Movidius to boost machine vision, deep learning

Intel aims to boost its efforts to make all manner of devices from drones to virtual reality headsets able to see better with the acquisition of machine vision processor chip maker Movidius.

China’s Baidu to open-source its deep learning AI platform

China's Baidu Thursday will offer its cutting-edge deep learning AI software as open source.

Meet Project Storm, Facebook’s SWAT team for disaster-proofing data centers

Facebook today revealed details of how it tries to keep data centers resilient after natural disasters through a SWAT team called Project Storm.

Salesforce.com’s shares drop following light earnings outlook

Salesforce.com reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings, but a weaker-than-expected third-quarter outlook tanked shares in after-hours trading.