Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

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In era of cloud giants, venture capitalists still want to invest in enterprise startups

By Robert Hof Nov 8, 2016

Despite the inexorable advance of cloud computing giants into data centes and enterprise technologies, venture capitalists are still betting that startups in storage, networking, databases and other enterprise products have plenty of opportunity to…

NEWS

Hortonworks shares jump as revenues top forecasts

By Robert Hof Nov 3, 2016

Big data leader Hortonworks Inc. managed to win back at least some investors’ confidence today with third-quarter earnings that beat revenue expectations despite a somewhat higher-than-forecast loss. The company, whose software helps companies collect…

Apps

Mobile ads drive soaring Facebook earnings, but investors worry about 2017

By Robert Hof Nov 2, 2016

Facebook Inc. again crushed Wall Street earnings estimates today, thanks to all those video ads you’re watching on your smartphone. But investors worry if the good times will last. The social network reported yet…

Apps

Marc Andreessen joins board of cloud communications startup Dialpad

By Robert Hof Nov 1, 2016

You probably haven’t heard of Dialpad Inc. Marc Andreessen intends to change that. The well-known venture capitalist and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz today joined the board of Dialpad, a San Francisco-based startup that’s…

Apps

Who needs text chat? HipChat debuts link to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant

By Robert Hof Nov 1, 2016

Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo, the smart speaker with a Star Trek-style intelligent voice assistant called Alexa, is still something of a novelty for consumers to ask about the weather forecast or order products. Now it’s…

Cloud

Despite surging cloud business, Amazon’s profits miss forecasts

By Robert Hof Oct 27, 2016

Despite continuing strength in the cloud computing business that has buoyed profits for the past year or more, Amazon.com Inc. today reported third-quarter profits that missed analysts’ expectations. The Seattle-based online retailer and cloud…

Cloud

Google beats earnings forecasts on mobile ads, YouTube and a wisp of cloud

By Robert Hof Oct 27, 2016

Bolstered by ads on smartphones and YouTube, Google Inc. parent company Alphabet Inc. posted a 23 percent jump in profits on a similar rise in revenues for its third quarter. The company said it…

Apps

Apple shares drop despite better-than-expected iPhone sales, Q1 outlook

By Robert Hof Oct 25, 2016

Despite slowing sales of iPhones as consumers waited for new models, Apple Inc. today reported better-than-expected sales of the devices and forecast current-quarter results higher than Wall Street is forecasting. Still, it’s clear that…

Apps

Microsoft shares hit all-time high as cloud revenues soar

By Robert Hof Oct 20, 2016

Microsoft Corp.’s cloud computing revenues shot up 116 percent, providing a big boost to fiscal first quarter earnings, the company reported today. Shares of Microsoft rose nearly 6 percent to reach an all-time high of…

Featured People

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: ‘Great opportunities’ and great challenges for women in tech

By Robert Hof Oct 19, 2016

Women have made great strides working their way into technical positions at companies, but there’s still a very long way to go before they reach parity with men, especially in leadership positions. All that…

Robert Hof

In era of cloud giants, venture capitalists still want to invest in enterprise startups

Hortonworks shares jump as revenues top forecasts

Mobile ads drive soaring Facebook earnings, but investors worry about 2017

Marc Andreessen joins board of cloud communications startup Dialpad

Who needs text chat? HipChat debuts link to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant

Apple shares drop despite better-than-expected iPhone sales, Q1 outlook

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: ‘Great opportunities’ and great challenges for women in tech

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