Robert Hof

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

Latest from Robert Hof

Tiny brains everywhere, plague-fighting microbiomes and eight more hot tech trends

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Tiny brains will be embedded in everything, our bodies’ own microbes will prevent the next plague, and the Trump administration will sue Amazon.com Inc. and other tech giants for antitrust violations. Those are three of the hottest trends coming in technology in …

Nutanix beats quarterly forecasts this time, and its shares soar 12%

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

After Nutanix Inc.’s shares tanked 14 percent March 2 when it issued a weak outlook, the maker of computer virtualization and storage appliances and software had something to prove this quarter. In short, it did. The company reported a profit before certain …

Pure Storage shares surge as it beats profit and sales forecasts

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Flash storage provider Pure Storage Inc. beat back doubts about its growth today, reporting better-than-expected first fiscal-quarter profit and revenue thanks to stealing a march on traditional storage rivals and winning new business in cloud computing and analytics. The company reported a …

Google applies machine learning to help marketers better track ad impact

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Are my ads working? That’s the essential question that every company faces with its marketing. Today, Google Inc. is aiming to help them find out how their ads and other marketing are working with a new service unveiled today at its annual …

First Facebook, now Google wants to make virtual reality more social

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Playing catch-up with Facebook Inc., Google plans to make virtual reality and augmented reality more of a social experience in its next generation of headsets. The tech giant, which announced plans for its first standalone VR headsets Wednesday at its three-day I/O …

At I/O, Google debuts new Android O, AI chip, new Assistant and Photos features, VR headset

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Updated with news and analysis: When Google Inc. held its last I/O developer confab a year ago, it looked like the tech giant had fallen behind rivals such as Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and even Microsoft Corp. on many fronts, from intelligent …

Google launches Cloud Spanner globally distributed database into production

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Just three months after introducing its massive Cloud Spanner database in beta test, Google Inc. today made it generally available across the world. Described as the world’s largest database, Google’s Spanner is a relational database, the kind that stores data in familiar related rows and columns. …

Android, Assistant, AI and more: Here’s what to expect at Google I/O 2017 this week

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

When some 7,000 software developers descend on Google Inc.’s annual I/O conference starting Wednesday, they’ll be hoping to hear what the tech giant has coming next, from the upcoming Android O mobile operating software to new features for its Home smart speaker, …

With huge new graphics chip, Nvidia doubles down on AI and deep learning

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Nvidia Corp. rocketed to semiconductor fame with its graphics processing units that helped create the hottest gaming personal computers, but today its original market almost looked like an afterthought. The company introduced a powerful new chip at its GPU Technology Conference in …

Nvidia’s shares jump as AI and gaming drive graphics chip demand

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence and gaming once again boosted the fortunes of Nvidia Corp. as the maker of graphics chips reported better-than-expected results for the eighth quarter in a row. In its first fiscal quarter reported today, the company earned a profit of $507 …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Tiny brains everywhere, plague-fighting microbiomes and eight more hot tech trends

Pure Storage shares surge as it beats profit and sales forecasts

Google applies machine learning to help marketers better track ad impact

First Facebook, now Google wants to make virtual reality more social

At I/O, Google debuts new Android O, AI chip, new Assistant and Photos features, VR headset

Android, Assistant, AI and more: Here’s what to expect at Google I/O 2017 this week

With huge new graphics chip, Nvidia doubles down on AI and deep learning

Nvidia’s shares jump as AI and gaming drive graphics chip demand

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

GraphTalk 2026

AMD Advancing AI 2026

RAISE Summit 2026

Pure Accelerate 2026

FinOps X 2026

SIGN IN

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry