Last week activist investor Starboard delivered a public letter rebuking the company for what it perceives as under performance. Today the firm, which owns 8% of Box stock, making it […]
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Nick Lippis Contributor Nick Lippis is an authority on advanced IP networks and their benefits to business objectives. He is the co-founder and co-chair of ONUG, which sponsors biannual meetings […]
As UiPath closes above its final private valuation, CFO Ashim Gupta discusses his company’s path to market
After an upward revision, UiPath priced its IPO last night at $56 per share, a few dollars above its raised target range. The above-range price meant that the unicorn put […]
IBM breaks latest revenue losing streak as cloud revenue shows modest growth
For IBM, much of the last 8 years simply posting positive revenue growth was a challenge. In fact, the company had a period between 2013 and 2018 when it experienced […]
Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it?
TechCrunch has spilled much digital ink tracking the fate of VMware since it was brought to Dell’s orbit thanks to the latter company’s epic purchase of EMC in 2016 for […]
Should Dell have pursued a more aggressive debt-reduction move with VMware?
When Dell announced it was spinning out VMware yesterday, the move itself wasn’t surprising; there had been public speculation for some time. But Dell could have gone a number of […]
Industry experts bullish on $500M KKR investment in Box, but stock market remains skeptical
When Box announced it was getting a $500 million investment from private equity firm KKR this morning, it was hard not to see it as a positive move for the […]
Microsoft outage knocks sites and services offline
Microsoft is experiencing a major outage, so that’s why you can’t get any work done. Besides its homepage, Microsoft services are down, log-in pages aren’t loading, and even the company’s […]
Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform
Last October as Slack was preparing for its virtual Frontiers conference, the company began thinking about different ways people could communicate on the platform. While it had built its name […]
Salesforce updates includes sales info overlay for Zoom meetings
The pandemic has clearly had an impact on the way we work, and this is especially true for salespeople. Salesforce introduced a number updates to Sales Cloud this morning including […]