Enterprise
How Google plans to use 100% carbon-free energy in its data centers by 2030
Google’s data centers around the world use about twice as much electricity as the city of San Francisco. In total, Google used 15.5 terawatt hours of electricity in 2020 and the majority of that goes to its data centers. (It hasn’t made 2021 figures available.) The amount of energy Google uses is growing as overall […]
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Box’s buzz has long since passed but the stock is trading near a record while cloud peers suffer
Box CEO Aaron Levie speaking at BoxWorks in 2018 Box In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. At age 37, Aaron Levie has been at the same job for almost half his life. He’s the CEO of collaboration software vendor Box, a […]
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Fintech stocks Toast, Affirm drop on analyst concerns about ‘longer-term growth trajectories’
The Toast, Inc. IPO at the New York Stock Exchange, on September 22, 2021. Source: NYSE Shares of Toast and Affirm dropped on Tuesday after analysts at MoffettNathanson said “longer-term growth trajectories are likely to disappoint” at the two fintech companies. Toast, a point-of-sale software provider for restaurants, was down 11% as of Tuesday afternoon […]
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Microsoft wants to help business customers simplify those annoying software updates
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during the Windows 10 Devices event in New York on Oct. 6, 2015. Microsoft Corp. introduced its first-ever laptop, three Lumia phones and a Surface Pro 4 tablet, the first indication of the company’s revamped hardware strategy three months after saying it would scale back plans […]
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Meta says employees no longer need Covid boosters to come to U.S. offices
Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Facebook parent Meta Platforms will stop insisting that employees have Covid booster shots in order to come to its facilities in the U.S., a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC on Friday. Technology companies have begun the process of luring their workers back to their corporate campuses. Meta, as well as Microsoft, […]
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How Atlassian’s dual-CEO structure has helped the Australian software company thrive
Atlassian’s founders and co-CEOs, Scott Farquhar, left, and Mike Cannon-Brookes. Atlassian In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. In early March, collaboration software maker Atlassian published a blog post titled, “Atlassian stands with Ukraine,” laying out the company’s plans to support employees […]
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Federal judge approves Activision Blizzard sexual harassment settlement
From left, Brian Grazer, founder of Imagine Entertainment, and Bobby Kotick, chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard, arrive at the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2019, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images A federal judge has approved video game publisher Activision Blizzard’s settlement with the U.S. Equal […]
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Pentagon expects to award up to $9 billion in cloud contracts in December
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference in Tbilisi, Georgia October 18, 2021. Irakli Gedenidze | Reuters The U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday that it plans to award as much as $9 billion in contracts for cloud infrastructure services in December, about eight months later than it expected. The Joint Warfighter Cloud […]
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SEC charges Twilio engineers with insider trading during early days of pandemic
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged three software engineers at cloud software vendor Twilio and several of their friends and family members with involvement in an insider trading scheme. Between March and May 2020, as cloud tools were gaining use due to the surge in remote work, Twilio engineers Lokesh Lagudu, Chotu Pulagam […]
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Huawei posts first-ever yearly revenue decline as U.S. sanctions continue to bite, but profit surges
Huawei reported its first yearly revenue decline on record in 2021 as U.S. sanctions continued to hurt the company. But the Chinese technology giant’s income surged last year as it focused on boosting profitability. “Despite a revenue decline in 2021, our ability to make a profit and generate cash flows is increasing, and we are […]
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