Robert Hof

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

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Google opens artificial intelligence research center in China

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC can’t operate its signature search engine in China, but that’s not stopping it from pursuing another tech initiative in the country: artificial intelligence. The search giant today said it’s opening a research center in China, several months after it was …

IBM courts developers with ready-to-use software packages for bots and more

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Hoping to get more software developers to use its cloud services, IBM Corp. today announced more than 100 packages of software code that can be used to create chatbots, application containers, blockchain applications and more. IBM noted that the proliferation of open-source …

Big-data firm Cloudera’s shares jump on strong earnings and outlook

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Updated After disappointing investors in the last couple of quarters, big-data pioneer Cloudera Inc. today managed to win some of them back with a favorable third-quarter earnings report. In its third quarter since going public in April, Cloudera reported a loss before …

Fetch Robotics picks up $25M in funding for collaborative warehouse robots

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Fetch Robotics Inc. is announcing early Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in a new funding aimed at meeting accelerating demand for its warehouse robots. The San Jose, California-based company is one of the leaders of a new army of “collaborative …

Zeta Global acquires commenting platform Disqus for $90M

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Marketing technology firm Zeta Global today said it’s buying social discussion platform Disqus Inc., in the largest of its 11 acquisitions to date. San Francisco-based Disqus provides a commenting system for 4 million websites and reaches 2 billion unique visitors a month, …

Re:Invent recap: Amazon bids to lead the next era of computing

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. came into its sixth annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas with a fairly dominant lead in the foundational cloud computing services that are sweeping across the information technology industry. If anything, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit exited the five-day show, …

‘Alexa, welcome to the office’: Amazon calls out voice as tech’s next big disruption

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Alexa is headed to the office. Her job: reinventing information technology at every business. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit today announced that its voice assistant, currently residing mostly on its Echo line of smart speakers in people’s kitchens and living rooms, will …

With a flurry of new services, Amazon aims to simplify the cloud

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Cloud computing was supposed to make corporate information technology a lot simpler, and in many ways it has — but as the cloud itself has exploded, so too has the complexity of managing all the pieces. That’s the problem Amazon Web Services …

Amazon’s cloud introduces ‘bare metal’ computing service

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Looking to keep ahead of rivals in cloud computing, Amazon Web Services Inc. late Tuesday announced so-called “bare-metal” server instances that provide customers with direct access to raw computing power. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud company offered its first bare metal server instances as …

Salesforce tops earnings forecasts, but investors wanted a more bullish outlook

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Buoyed by sales of its growing array of cloud-based customer management software, Salesforce.com Inc. topped forecasts for its third fiscal quarter but fell just shy of analysts’ earnings forecast for the current quarter. The outlook for fourth-quarter profits fell a penny or …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Google opens artificial intelligence research center in China

IBM courts developers with ready-to-use software packages for bots and more

Big-data firm Cloudera’s shares jump on strong earnings and outlook

Fetch Robotics picks up $25M in funding for collaborative warehouse robots

Zeta Global acquires commenting platform Disqus for $90M

With a flurry of new services, Amazon aims to simplify the cloud

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