All posts by Jeff Berman

Box CEO: Shield’s a ‘Core Catalyst’ for Suite Adoption

Box saw continued strong demand for its Box Shield security controls and intelligent threat detection capabilities in the fourth quarter (ended Jan. 31), according to company CEO A... More

Salesforce’s Latest Acquisition is Vlocity for $1.3B

Salesforce is acquiring Vlocity, a provider of cloud and mobile software built natively on the Salesforce platform, for about $1.33 billion in cash net of Salesforce's ownership in... More

Croogloo: Connecting Film, TV Production Operations

Combining the best practices of supply chain science, tech, and production operations, Montreal-based Croogloo has a bold goal: help Studios and Crew cut production days, using dat... More

Akamai: API Attacks by Cybercriminals are on the Rise

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are increasingly being targeted in hostile takeover attempts, according to Akamai Technologies. “We have a really consistent amount o... More

Dish CEO: Sling TV Remains ‘Well-Positioned’ in Crowded OTT Market

Dish Network sees its Sling TV over-the-top (OTT) streaming service as being “well positioned to perform in the dynamic marketplace, but we also need to execute,” according to ... More

Cognizant CFO: Expect More Investments Like Code Zero

Cognizant plans to continue making partnership investments along the lines of its recently announced acquisitions of Atlanta-based Code Zero Consulting and the French operations of... More

Adobe CFO: Company Continues to See Growth Opportunity in Digital Marketing

Adobe continues to eye digital marketing growth in its Experience Cloud business segment, according to Adobe CFO John Murphy. Adobe sees a total addressable market (TAM) from th... More

Google Cloud CEO Touts Company’s Aggressive Growth Strategy

Google has an aggressive cloud computing growth strategy in which it’s accelerating digital transformation by offering the best infrastructure, platform and industry-specific sol... More

‘Parasite’ Gets Major Post-Oscars Demand Bump

Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” has seen a noticeable increase in demand on FandangoNOW, Walmart's Vudu and Apple's iTunes streaming services, in optical disc sales and in theatric... More

Akamai CEO: Continued Cloud Security Solutions Strength Drove Q4 Growth

Akamai’s Cloud Security Solutions business provided a major boost for the company’s results in its fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31), according to CEO Tom Leighton. The company... More

Deluxe GM: ‘Balanced Fusion’ of Talent, Technology Needed to Meet Today’s Challenges

Deluxe is using new technology and tools to help meet new post-production challenges. That and a huge, distributed workforce, made up of more than 6,000 translators, scripting edit... More

Starzplay Streaming Service Provided Lionsgate with a Q3 Boost

Lionsgate continued to see strength from its Starzplay international subscription video on demand (SVOD) and other over-the-top (OTT) streaming services in the third quarter (ended... More

DXC Execs: Company Made Progress with New Strategy in Q3

DXC Technology saw promising signs in the third quarter (ended Dec. 31) as progress was made on its new business strategy, according to company executives. “I'm pleased with t... More

AWS Innovations and Results Strong Again in Q4, Amazon Says

Strong Amazon Web Services (AWS) results helped Amazon report stronger results than a year ago in the fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31), during which the company unveiled multiple new... More

Microsoft Q2 Results Helped by Continued Azure Momentum

Continued Azure innovation and business momentum played a key role in the strong results that Microsoft reported Jan. 29 for its second quarter (ended Dec. 31). Revenue in Micro... More

MicroStrategy Expects HyperIntelligence Adoption to Keep Growing in 2020

MicroStrategy continued to see strong demand for its HyperIntelligence advanced “zero-click” analytics in the fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31) and expects adoption to continue ex... More

SAP Execs Eye AI Opportunities, Tout Cloud Strength in Q4

SAP executives Jan. 28 pointed to the growth opportunities they see in artificial intelligence, while touting the strength in the firm’s cloud business that provided it with a si... More

Analysts: Peacock Holds Promise for Comcast

Comcast’s upcoming Peacock streaming service, along with the broadcasting rights it has for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and its high-margin and growing data business all pr... More

BeBop, Teradici Tackle the Ins and Outs of Cloud and Remote Editing

Remote editing and cloud editing are what all media companies want to be able to do thanks to all the flexibility they provide and, in the 2020s, everyone will need that flexibilit... More