Qualcomm came out this morning with a bid to takeover Veoneer in a move to rapidly expand the company’s growing automotive practice.
Amazon Exploring Crypto? The Cryptocurrency and Blockchain World Goes Crazy
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on what appears to be indicative of Amazon exploring crypto. A recent job listing by Amazon and what this could mean for the innovative global retailer and cloud provider has the cryptocurrency and Blockchainworld going a bit crazy. As the global landscape for money transforms, nations states issue digital currencies and Bitcoin continues its path to wider adoption, it’s interesting to consider when and how Amazon will respond.
Poly’s Q1 FY2022 Earnings Reflect Trend Toward Hybrid Work Bodes Well, But There’s Work Ahead
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the Q1 FY2022 earnings results for Poly. With remote work driving the need for high quality audio and video solutions, Poly is well positioned to continue to ride the pandemic dynamic and continue its growth trajectory, provided supply chain issues continue to throw a wrench their way.
Mainframe Ecosystem Mobilizes for Common Good with Congress, Micro Focus, and Broadcom Providing Encouraging News
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on an interesting week in the mainframe space. Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) looks to get support for the Grace Hopper Code for Us Act in the House to fund higher ed training for IT jobs and addressing the shortage of professionals with a background in older coding languages needed to maintain and modernize critical government IT systems. Micro Focus plays a significant role in that initiative, and Broadcom looks to transform the mainframe landscape through Open Source with The Linux Foundation, Open Mainframe Project. Very interesting times ahead for the mainframe industry.
AT&T Preps for 5G Coming to Life at Warner Media Innovation Lab Event
AT&T preps for 5G coming to life at recent WarnerMedia Innovation Lab Event. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a look at some newly announced partnerships coming out of the recent 5G push at a media event at the WarnerMedia Innovation Lab event in NYC.
SAS Announces Plan to go Public Seeking Talent and Transformation
SAS Institute, best known as SAS Software announced a plan to go public by 2024 in search of greater talent and a long-term succession plan.
AMD Q2 2021 Earnings: The 99% Solution?
AMD has released its Q2 2021 financial results, solidly beating consensus estimates with revenue of $3.85 billion (versus $3.62 billion expected) and earnings of $0.63 (versus $0.54 expected). This is the fourth consecutive quarter of record revenues including a 99 percent Y/Y increase from Q2 2020.
Twilio Growth Accelerates in Q2 Growing 67% on Strong Demand
Twilio saw its best quarterly growth in more than two years as demand for customer engagement tools continues to surge.
Citrix Pivots Attention to ARR and That’s a Good Thing!
Citrix saw its critics come out after a down revenue quarter and slowing growth, but it has a brighter future if it can make its ARR pivot.
Amazon Q2 Is Very Good Even Though Some Suggest Otherwise
The market reaction to Amazon: Only in these times would 27% growth for a company doing over a $100 billion a quarter be frowned upon.