Enterprise
Microsoft’s underperformance has investors looking to cloud for growth
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Microsoft is in the middle of the artificial intelligence boom, but it’s been a while since investors have seen the rewards. The software giant’s stock price is up less […]
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Twilio shares pop 22% and head for biggest gain since Covid pandemic on growth forecast
Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler speaks at Twilio’s Signal event in Sao Paulo on Aug. 14, 2024. Courtesy: Twilio Twilio shares soared more than 20% on Friday and headed for their biggest gain since the early days of the Covid pandemic after the cloud communications software vendor issued an uplifting profit forecast for the coming years. The […]
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Zuckerberg sets Meta’s AI targets for the year, expects to spend $60 billion on growth
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday announced the company plans to invest around $60 to $65 billion in capital expenditure in 2025 as it continues […]
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Twilio stock surges after company issues optimistic 2027 profit forecast
Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler speaks at Twilio’s Signal event in Sao Paulo on Aug. 14, 2024. Courtesy: Twilio Cloud communications software maker Twilio on Thursday issued a hopeful profit forecast for the next few years. The company sees its adjusted operating margin widening to between 21% and 22% in 2027 as part of a three-year […]
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Microsoft’s business development chief Chris Young resigns
Christopher Young, executive vice president of business development at Microsoft Corp., speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. The GeekWire Summit brings together business, tech and community leaders for discussions about the future. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft‘s head of business development Chris Young, who […]
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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role in the artificial intelligence. Databricks works closely with Meta’s Llama […]
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Abnormal Security hires ex-ServiceNow exec as CFO as company starts prepping for IPO
Abnormal Security, a startup selling email security software to companies, said on Wednesday that it’s hired former ServiceNow finance executive Lisa Banks as chief financial officer as the company gears up to prepare for an IPO. Abnormal is going after a longstanding market, which includes incumbents Mimecast and Proofpoint, adding a layer of artificial intelligence […]
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Microsoft loses status as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House while SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman look on on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is expected to announce investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty […]
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Oracle shares jump 6% on involvement in AI infrastructure initiative that Trump will announce
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, center, watches Andy Murray of Great Britain against Alexander Zverev of Germany during their third round match on Day 9 of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on October 12, 2021 in Indian Wells, California. Clive Brunskill | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Oracle shares jumped […]
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Biden administration launches cybersecurity executive order
US President Joe Biden, left, and Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, speak on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal, bringing at least a temporary halt to the war […]
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