Sean Michael Kerner

Cloud hosting vendor Rackspace reported its fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2013 results late Monday as CEO Lanham Napier announced his retirement from the company. Rackspace reported fourth quarter revenue of $408 million, which represents a 16 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was reported at $21 million for the quarter, for a 30 percent year-over-year […]

LinkedIn had its best year ever in 2013, as membership numbers swelled and mobile usage continued to gain. LinkedIn reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013 results late Thursday, as the online service topped 277 million members. For the quarter, revenue came in at $447.2 million, a 47 percent year-over-year increase. Net Income […]

Microblogging social networking cloud service Twitter publicly announced its earning for the first time late Wednesday, and the numbers offer great insight. During the earnings call, Twitter’s CEO was very optimistic about his company’s future and laid out his plans for growth in 2014. For the fourth quarter of 2013, Twitter reported revenue of $243 […]

Data is increasing going mobile. That’s not a surprise, but the volume and speed of growth might be a surprise to some. Cisco today released its annual Visual Networking Index for mobile data, and in the period covering 2013 to 2018 the expectation is for an 11x increase in mobile traffic. The Combined Annual Growth […]

It’s going to take a bit longer for users of the open-source Firefox web browser to get an overhauled user interface. Since early 2013, Mozilla developers have been teasing users with mockups and discussion about the new Australis Interface. At one point the plan was to have Australis debut in October as part of the […]

IBM reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013 results late Tuesday, showing continued declines in its hardware business, as software and cloud initiatives move the other way. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $27.7 billion, which is a five percent year-over-year decline. Net Income for the quarter was reported at $6.2 billion […]

What’s inside a cloud matters. That’s the message the Intel is now trying to promote with its new Powered by Intel Cloud Technology badge. The Powered by Intel Cloud Technology badge is similar in many respects to the Intel-Inside campaign that Intel ran for years on consumer PCs as a branding effort, emphasizing that what’s […]

Intel wants to be inside — everything. That’s the message coming from Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich. In a 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote delivered Monday night, Krzanich demonstrated an array of innovative technologies from Intel that firmly place the silicon giant at the forefront of the new wearable computing and mobile technology revolution. At […]

Oracle is once again growing its hardware business as growth prospects in the cloud also continue to show promise. Oracle reported its second quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Wednesday with revenue reported at $9.3 Billion for a two percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, Oracle President and CFO Safra Katz provided guidance for the third quarter […]

Michael Dell kicked off his company’s annual Dell World event today with a series of announcements about new cloud efforts and discussed the nature of innovation with SpaceX and Tesla founder, Elon Musk. Dell said that his company’s goals moving forward are to transform, inform, connect and protect customer IT environments. At the core of […]