Robert Hof

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

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RingCentral takes new swing at unifying all our communications

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

With the traditional office phone at death’s door for years, many companies have tried to bring voice together with email and innumerable other messaging and collaboration apps. Today RingCentral Inc. is taking another crack at it. The 18-year-old cloud communications and collaboration …

Andrew Ng leaves chief scientist post at Baidu to take AI beyond tech

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Andrew Ng, the onetime co-creator of the Google Brain research project who joined Baidu Inc. as its chief scientist in 2014, today said he’s leaving the Chinese tech giant to pursue his own work in artificial intelligence beyond the tech industry. “Baidu’s …

MetaX wields blockchain in bold bid to clean up digital advertising

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

It’s no secret that digital advertising is riddled with fraudsters and scammers who do everything from running phantom ads never viewed by a human being to injecting malware-laden ads into websites. That’s the problem that a startup called MetaX hopes to solve using …

Cloud computing growth lifts Oracle’s profits, and its shares

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Rapid growth in cloud computing revenues helped lift Oracle Corp.’s fortunes in its third fiscal quarter reported today, as its profits easily beat forecasts on a 2 percent rise in revenues. The Silicon Valley software giant reported a profit of 69 cents …

Tech IPO train starts speeding up as Yext and Okta file for offerings

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

The long drought in technology initial public offerings looks to be easing as two more companies today filed registration papers to sell shares. New York-based Yext Inc., which makes software to help businesses manage their digital presence in online maps, directories and …

With a flurry of new cloud services, Google checks off more enterprise boxes

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. today unveiled an almost numbing array of new cloud security, data analytics and collaboration services in a continuing drive to convince big companies that they need to make the tech giant’s cloud computing services a core part of their operations. …

At Google’s cloud conference kickoff, it was all about the customers

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Some 10,000 people came to Google’s annual Cloud Next conference for software developers and partners today in San Francisco to hear about new technologies. They didn’t get much of that. Instead, the tech giant spent much of a more than two-hour keynote …

Can Google’s cloud finally win a place in the enterprise?

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

When Google Inc. opens its three-day Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, its top executives will be showing off new services, partnerships and customers of its cloud computing service in hopes of stealing a march on the cloud’s reigning leaders, Amazon.com Inc. and …

In conversation with Amit Zavery: Oracle makes the case for its cloud

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. barely shows up on most lists of the biggest cloud computing providers. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure dominate, and even Google Inc.’s and IBM Corp.’s clouds far behind the leaders are ahead of Oracle’s. Oracle is hardly alone in …

Nutanix shares plunge on weaker-than-expected forecast

INFRA By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Investors hammered Nutanix Inc.’s shares today as the maker of enterprise computer virtualization and storage appliances and software beat analysts’ quarterly expectations but issued a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. The company reported a fiscal-second quarter loss before certain costs such …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Andrew Ng leaves chief scientist post at Baidu to take AI beyond tech

MetaX wields blockchain in bold bid to clean up digital advertising

Tech IPO train starts speeding up as Yext and Okta file for offerings

Can Google’s cloud finally win a place in the enterprise?

Nutanix shares plunge on weaker-than-expected forecast

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