When Global Knowledge signed up with Amazon.com to be an authorized trainer for the Amazon Web Services cloud business, the company had no idea of what was to come. While Global Knowledge provides training for some of the largest tech companies in the world, including Cisco Systems (CSCO), VMware (VMW) and Microsoft (MSFT), demand for education about AWS has dwarfed all others since the company began offering AWS instruction in November 2013.
Synchronoss Technologies stock reversed hard Thursday after the company’s 2015 revenue outlook for its growing cloud business worried investors. Before the open, the provider of mobile cloud data storage and mobile activation services posted Q4 earnings and sales well ahead of Wall Street targets. Shares rose more than 9% just after the open — then steadily fell for the next three hours before plateauing, ending the day down nearly 7%. A deeper
Action camera maker GoPro posted a stellar performance for the holiday shopping season, but its shares whipsawed in late trading Thursday on an executive resignation and disappointing first-quarter earnings guidance. GoPro (GPRO) stock jumped over 4% in after-hours trading immediately after the San Mateo, Calif.-based company reported better-than-expected Q4 results. But shares then turned south and were soon down 4% on news that Chief Operating