Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research researchers yesterday announced that they have achieved a significant breakthrough by developing a speech recognition system that has transcribing capabilities on par with humans.Â
Nokia and ChinaMobile Ink $1.53 Billion Cloud Infrastructure Deal ChinaMobile has recently closed a deal with Nokia that will allow China’s largest telco to operate a cloud infrastructure network, with Nokia Networks China and ASB providing support services. The agreement
Last week, Microsoft and Facebook announced they’re building a 4,000 mile transatlantic cable from Virginia Beach to Bilboa Spain. The venture is called MAREA and it will be operated by Telxius, a Telefonica infrastructure subsidiary. The undersea cable is billed
M=Market Cap and S=2015 revenues In the early 1900’s, the business pioneers that changed the world were Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller. In the early 2000’s, their equivalent is The Mighty GAFAN+M Clan,
Netflix Malware and Phishing Scams Steal Users’ Passwords and Bank Details Researchers at Symantec discovered two unique attack campaigns targeting Netflix users. Researchers explained that malicious files are posing as Netflix software on compromised computers’ desktops. The files are downloaders
An Oppenheimer analyst stated that “Akamai would be a viable acquisition target for Microsoft as it looks to compete with AWS in the public cloud space.” One thing is for sure, if this were to happen, the excitement factor in
Sometimes the research results get interesting when conducting analysis on various metrics in the industry. Over the last few months, we’ve been talking about the big bad wolf called GAFAN+M. Shockingly, the market valuation for the GAFAN+M jumped about $500B
We’re starting a new blog post series called “The Ugly Truth”, and the purpose of each post is to ask and answer the most difficult question pertaining to our industry. The question is carefully selected, and it reflects the question
Matthew “Prince said he blushed when he first saw” the term sheet offered by Fidelity / Microsoft / Google / Qualcomm / Baidu pre-investment. If we were in his shoes, we would more than blush, we’d have a heart attack
Fresh off the heels of their recent Zero-Day attack, Microsoft is now facing yet another security breach, this time in the form of phishing. In a detailed report published by Trend Micro, the security software company deep dives into the
On the Azure CDN section of the website, there is one sentence that stands out, and it goes something like this “Azure CDN is built on a highly-scalable, reverse-proxy architecture with sophisticated DDoS identification and mitigation technologies to protect you”.
The cloud price wars continue between Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Recently, Google dropped their prices by a whopping 10% from $.07/hour to $.063/hour for the n1-standard-1 US configuration. Amazon and Microsoft will follow suit. In two weeks, one of the
Rackspace offers a robust suite of cloud services, including compute, storage, application and database hosting, load balancing, Colo, DNS, and a few more. They offer some of the products that Amazon and Microsoft offer, and all of the products that
Once upon a time, Rackspace was the leader in hosting and manage services. In 2013, they earned $1.53B in revenue, up from $1.3B in 2012, and $1B in 2011. Regardless of their revenue growth, Rackspace stock sank almost 50% in
