Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

NEWS

Big Data leader Hortonworks’ shares plunge 25 percent on Q2 sales miss

By Robert Hof Aug 4, 2016

Big Data is still producing big losses for Hortonworks Inc. as lower-than-expected revenues caused its stock to plunge more than 25 percent in trading today after the market close. The company’s president since 2012,…

NEWS

Facebook doubles down on hardware with shiny new prototyping lab, Area 404

By Robert Hof Aug 3, 2016

Facebook is opening a 22,000-square-foot hardware labs at its Menlo Park, CA headquarters, in sign of the social network's intention to make hardware as well as software.

Big Data

Attic Labs debuts a new kind of database for a Big Data world

By Robert Hof Aug 2, 2016

San Francisco startup Attic Labs today is announcing Noms, a new kind of decentralized, open-source database.

NEWS

Google beats Q2 earnings forecasts thanks to mobile, YouTube – and cloud

By Robert Hof Jul 28, 2016

Google today delivered second-quarter earnings that easily beat expectations on both profits and revenues.

NEWS

SoftLayer founder Lance Crosby launches StackPath: Internet security-as-a-service

By Robert Hof Jul 25, 2016

StackPath, the new startup from SoftLayer founder Lance Crosby, launches today with the first of a broad suite of Internet security services.

NEWS

Wave Computing rolls out plans for fast deep-learning computers

By Robert Hof Jul 21, 2016

Deep learning neural networks, software programs that attempt to emulate the way the brain’s neocortex works, have led to striking improvements recently in speech and image recognition and even game playing. But progress in…

NEWS

Intel, Qualcomm beat earnings forecasts, but investors like only one of them

By Robert Hof Jul 20, 2016

Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., the two chip companies known for their respective dominance of personal computers and mobile devices, both reported higher-than-expected earnings. But the results prompted strikingly different reactions from investors.…

NEWS

Dialpad dials up the volume on its enterprise communications platform

By Robert Hof Jul 20, 2016

Dialpad is announcing a raft of new features for its business communications platform to move deeper into the enterprise.

NEWS

EMC shareholders bless $60 billion Dell buyout. Next up: China’s regulators

By Robert Hof Jul 19, 2016

To no one’s surprise, shareholders of EMC Corp. today approved Dell Inc.’s $60 billion acquisition offer for the computer storage company.

NEWS

EMC, VMware beat earnings forecasts ahead of Dell acquisition vote

By Robert Hof Jul 18, 2016

On the eve of a shareholder vote on Dell Inc.’s proposed $60 billion acquisition of EMC Corp., both the storage company and especially its VMware Inc. computing virtualization unit reported better-than-expected second-quarter results. The…

Robert Hof

Big Data leader Hortonworks’ shares plunge 25 percent on Q2 sales miss

Facebook doubles down on hardware with shiny new prototyping lab, Area 404

Attic Labs debuts a new kind of database for a Big Data world

Google beats Q2 earnings forecasts thanks to mobile, YouTube – and cloud

SoftLayer founder Lance Crosby launches StackPath: Internet security-as-a-service

Wave Computing rolls out plans for fast deep-learning computers

Dialpad dials up the volume on its enterprise communications platform

EMC shareholders bless $60 billion Dell buyout. Next up: China’s regulators

EMC, VMware beat earnings forecasts ahead of Dell acquisition vote

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