Robert Hof

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

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With new VR and AR services, Facebook dives deeper into virtual worlds – and the real world

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

In an apparent concession that virtual and augmented reality are taking longer than expected to blossom, Facebook Inc. today announced a raft of more pragmatic VR and AR services and partnerships that it hopes will jumpstart both. For one, the company today …

Video collections and automated video ads are coming to Flipboard

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

In its first big foray into video, the news aggregation app and website Flipboard Inc. today launched video packages from major publishers and said it will let advertisers run industry-standard video ads. Although the company, which aggregates material from selected online publishers …

Amid new controversy, Mark Zuckerberg will lay out Facebook’s future at F8 developer conference

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc.’s annual F8 conference is usually a coming-out for new technologies from the social network. This year, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has some other concerns to deal with too. The conference for developers, which runs Tuesday and Wednesday in San Jose, …

MoneyTree Report: a glimmer of hope amid stagnant startup funding

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Venture capitalists are perennial optimists, so it’s no surprise that a new report on their activity due out early Wednesday manages to find a glimmer of hope among the stagnant numbers. According to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB …

Why venture capitalists are hitting the pause button on tech investment

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Tech investors and startups alike had hoped the new year would bring a revival in venture investments and initial public offerings that began slowing down last year. No such luck. According to two new reports this week, and likely a third report …

Google and partners to build undersea Internet cable from Australia to Asia

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Nobody’s doing fewer Internet searches or watching fewer YouTube videos. So it’s no surprise that Google Inc., like other big Internet companies such as Facebook Inc., is laying more and more fiber optic cables under the world’s oceans to handle the ever-increasing …

Snowflake raises $100M funding round to grow its cloud data warehouse

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Hoping to expand its efforts to vault past traditional data warehouses in the era of big data and the cloud, Snowflake Computing Inc. today announced a massive $100 million late-stage funding round from a half-dozen new and existing investors. The Series D …

With new website, Google opens up about how it does open source

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. never misses an opportunity to tout its open-source chops, pointing out that it has contributed many technologies for public use. Today, it’s launching a new website to showcase those efforts — and maybe serve as a guide for other companies …

As big deals and backlog grow, Red Hat delivers a turnaround quarter

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Thanks to a growing number of million-dollar-plus deals and a fatter order backlog, Red Hat Inc. today reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue growth and issued a brighter outlook for the current quarter. The results for the open-source software pioneer’s quarter ended Feb. 28 …

Nvidia graphics chips accelerate their ascent to the cloud

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Nvidia Corp. started out making graphics chips for gaming, and years ago it leveraged the processing power of those chips to sell into data centers as they became the go-to silicon to power the branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning. Now, …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Video collections and automated video ads are coming to Flipboard

Amid new controversy, Mark Zuckerberg will lay out Facebook’s future at F8 developer conference

MoneyTree Report: a glimmer of hope amid stagnant startup funding

Why venture capitalists are hitting the pause button on tech investment

Google and partners to build undersea Internet cable from Australia to Asia

With new website, Google opens up about how it does open source

Nvidia graphics chips accelerate their ascent to the cloud

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