Robert Hof

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

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GitLab files to go public as both revenue and losses surge

APPS By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

GitLab Inc., which provides a cloud service to enable software developers to share code and collaborate on projects, today announced plans to go public with an initial offering of stock. The San Francisco-based company, which counts among its competitors Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub and …

Box reports higher revenue growth as it faces investor showdown

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

As Box Inc. battles an activist investor’s demands for changes to the company, its earnings report today may provide a bit of ammunition for the content management firm to keep control ahead of its Sept. 9 annual meeting when investors will essentially …

Despite strong cloud growth, Amazon shares fall on revenue shortfall and lower guidance

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

Despite higher-than-expected cloud computing revenue growth, Amazon.com Inc. saw its shares fall about 7% in after-hours trading on a second-quarter revenue shortfall and lower-than-expected guidance for the current quarter. For much of the past year, the pandemic helped Amazon.com Inc. reach new …

Facebook beats earnings estimates but stock falls on growth slowdown warning

APPS By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today easily beat estimates for its second-quarter results, but a warning that growth would slow in coming quarters knocked its stock down in after-hours trading. The company said it earned a net profit of $10.4 billion, or $3.61 a share, …

Ad spending and Google Cloud accelerate Alphabet’s earnings once again

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

The economy’s fitful emergence from the pandemic drove a big upside surprise in second-quarter earnings at Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc., thanks to advertising on search results and YouTube — as well as an acceleration in cloud computing revenue and a big …

Digging under the covers of AWS’ Timestream database with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. has become famous, or perhaps infamous, for the constant introduction of new cloud computing services, so many that customers often have trouble keeping track of them all — and databases are no exception. One of the newest among …

At RSA Conference, CEO Rohit Ghai reveals what’s coming next in cybersecurity

SECURITY By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

As the annual RSA Conference gets underway Monday morning in digital form, it will be a coming-out of sorts for RSA Security LLC, the venerable cybersecurity company that owns the conference. As RSA continues its disengagement from Dell Technologies Inc., which sold …

Amazon smashes earnings forecast as cloud revenue hits $54B annual run rate

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. boomed last year thanks to COVID-19 spurring both a consumer rush to buy online and a business imperative to move operations to the cloud — and not even the easing of the pandemic in some parts of the world has …

Facebook profit nearly doubles as it crushes revenue forecast

APPS By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

Benefiting from the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook Inc. today reported its first-quarter profit nearly doubled on much better-than-expected revenue. The social networking giant, which also counts Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram among its properties, said it earned a first-quarter profit of …

What pandemic? Alphabet earnings soar on ad spending jump, with a cloud kicker

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF5 YEARS AGO

Cloud computing again helped drive much higher-than-expected revenue in Alphabet Inc.’s first-quarter results reported today, but advertising really stole the show this time. The parent company of Google LLC earned a profit of $17.9 billion, or $26.29 a share. That was up …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

GitLab files to go public as both revenue and losses surge

At RSA Conference, CEO Rohit Ghai reveals what’s coming next in cybersecurity

Facebook profit nearly doubles as it crushes revenue forecast

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