New data center construction by some of the biggest names on the technology landscape could mean boom times ahead for Arista Networks (ANET), a provider of hardware and software for next-generation data centers. Thus concludes Brent Bracelin, an analyst for Pacific Crest Securities, who cites new data center in the works for Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL) as one reason to be optimistic for the maker of cloud
Advertisers are boosting their local mobile ad spending as more consumers scour the Web for information using their smartphone or mobile device, says research firm eMarketer. That’s underscored by gains in U.S. mobile Internet search ad revenue attained by the Big Four in that sector — Web portals Google (GOOGL) and Yahoo (YHOO), along with YP, the private held company formerly known as Yellow Pages, and Yelp (YELP). In 2015, U.S. search ad
Search giant Google (GOOGL) and its “Moonshot” Google X team learned big lessons during the development of some high-profile projects, Google X head Astro Teller told tech pros attending Google’s I/O annual developer’s conference on Friday. During a session titled “Helping Moonshots Survive Contact With The Real World,” Teller recalled lessons learned by workers at Google X, the search leader’s ambitious and hush-hush research facility, as they