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Tom Brady suspended 4 games for switching from Samsung to iPhone 6 – Tom Brady’s Full Statement
NFL upheld their ruling for 4 games suspended against Tom Brady. Apparently the reason was Brady switched from a broken Samsung to new iPhone 6. Tom Brady responds publicly to the NFL and fans here: Full Statement from Tom Brady: I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the 4 game suspension against ...
AWS (Amazon Web Services) breakout moments with more on the horizon
Today, Fortune did a story on Andy Jassy the leader or Amazon Web Services or AWS. I wrote on Forbes in January the first profile on Jassy . In that post we discussed that the TAM (total addressable market) is in the “trillions”. The business world learned just how big AWS was in April, when Amazon ...
CrowdChat Conversations – Join the Conversation
There is a big opportunity around social business as brands shift their digital spend in order to target and engage consumers in the fastest growing consumer segment – “The Crowd”. Users want to Join the Conversation yet it’s very difficult to find the conversations. One trend that is growing organically is what is called ...
[Live Chat] Cognitive Computing & Big Data
Top industry discuss cognitive computing featuring industry expert Judith Hurwitz and friends @ajbowles @makaufman @jhurwitz @dvellante Join the Conversation around the new book “Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics” by Hurwitz, Kaufman & Bowles. Cognitive Computing Overview Modern analytics technologies are quite adept at analyzing and visualizing historical, structured data. Want to know how many widgets ...
Episode #2 #VCchat with RedPoint Ventures Scott Raney and Tomasz Tunguz
Join the conversation – Thursday April 30th at 9am PST #VCchat. CrowdChat.net/VCchat #VCchat is our monthly crowd sourced content series via CrowdChat about the trends in venture capital and entrepreneurship. #VCchat Episode #2 is with with industry pros from Redpoint Ventures partners Scott Raney and Tomasz Tunguz. Scott is a rising start in the VC community and ...
CrowdChat RSA Conference Preview #RSAC
Join John Furrier on Thursday, April 26, 2015 at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) for a special CrowdChat to preview the upcoming @RSAConference in SF. We will have great guests like security analyst Michael Osterman, Ironkey Security CMO Marina Donovan and entrepreneur and former Cisco and Arista Networks executive Doug Gourlay from Sky Port Systems. ...
CrowdChat learn about the Horizon for desktop and app Virtualization #HorizonChat
Join the conversation on April 15th at 9am pst to find out what’s new about VMware’s Horizon desktop and app virtualization. VMware’s Shawn Bass (@shawnbass) has had over 20 years of experience and is an expert in desktop and app virtualization. Tomorrow he will be co-hosting a #horizonchat Crowdchat alongside analyst Simon Bramfitt @simonbramfitt and ...
Docker nabs massive Series D financing of $95 million | #DockerMadness
Docker, Inc. announced a new $95 million funding round, marking another major endorsement for the fast-growing startup whose container technology is the latest craze in cloud development. This new round of funding was led by Insight Venture Partners, with new contributions from Coatue, Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. Existing investors Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Trinity ...
Illumio raises monster funding of $100 million for new security model
Illumio has raised $100 million in new financing for its potentially game-changing approach to data center and cloud security. The latest round was led by BlackRock Funds, Accel Partners and others including industry leaders John W. Thompson. The Series C round brings the security company’s total investment to more than $142 million in the past ...
IronKey CrowdChat #GoldenKey #RSA15
We held a crowd sourced conversation with a company called Ironkey which provides any enterprise or government looking to secure their data. According to Marina Donovan, IronKey offers the most secure flash drives and Windows To Go drives on the market. “Security is like locking your home – often you increase your home security when ...