Alex Williams, Author at SiliconANGLE

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5 Reasons Why the Google-Motorola Deal Has Big Business Written All Over It

By Alex Williams Aug 15, 2011

One thing stands out in the posts I’ve read so far about Google buying Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion purchase has big business written all over it. Google is making a huge play for…

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Radoop – It’s Like Yahoo Pipes for Hadoop

By Alex Williams Aug 11, 2011

The idea of Hadoop always sounds so cool. Distributed computing, big data – it’s like this imaginary sweets shop with candy canes floating amid puffy clouds. Not really. But the dream of Hadoop is…

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A Fragmented Mobile OS Market Means More Bets on HTML 5

By Alex Williams Aug 11, 2011

We are seeing developers make more bets on HTML 5. It’s in large part due to the features that can be built into apps with the programming language. But it is also about addressing…

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Elevation Partners Roger McNamee 10 Hypotheses For Tech Investing

By Alex Williams Aug 10, 2011

We got our hands on a presentation from Elevation Partners that we just had to share. The presentation by Elevation Co-Founder Roger McNamee goes through ten hypotheses for technology investing. I looked around a…

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Fred Wilson – With Due Respect, There Will Be Files in the Cloud

By Alex Williams Aug 10, 2011

Fred Wilson published a blog post today with the premise that there will be no files in the cloud. With due respect I am going to have to object to his premise. He follows…

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The @RiotCleanup Story: 2 Days, 86,000 Followers and 84,000 Mentions

By Alex Williams Aug 9, 2011

The story about the @RiotCleanup Twitter account is one of the few shines of light coming out of the terrible riots in the United Kingdom. I started tracking the account today. It has increased…

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Big Data and the London Riots – How an NPR Journalist Created a Telling Interactive Map

By Alex Williams Aug 9, 2011

I’ve been searching around today for what the data is saying about the London Riots. My sources: Twitter, Google and The Guardian DataBlog. The Guardian blog used open data for its riot coverage. Its…

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Lead Up to VMworld: Let’s Get Some Perspective, Here

By Alex Williams Aug 9, 2011

The first few major user conferences I attended gave me agita. I could cover the news well enough but it felt like there was this huge under swell that you could feel. It came…

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The Real-Time Equivalent for Agile – A Tweetdeck of a Different Scope

By Alex Williams Aug 8, 2011

What is the real-time equivalent for Agile – what would that look like? A different interface than Tweetedeck but the concept is the same. A service on top that gives a view of different…

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Why Did Apple and Facebook Go With Fusion-io? It’s All About the Data

By Alex Williams Aug 5, 2011

Fusion-io released its fourth quarter results yesterday and announced the acquisition of IO Turbine, a move that shows the never ending demand for better data performance. Here’s the problem. As Fusion-io sees it, virtualization…

Alex Williams

5 Reasons Why the Google-Motorola Deal Has Big Business Written All Over It

Radoop – It’s Like Yahoo Pipes for Hadoop

A Fragmented Mobile OS Market Means More Bets on HTML 5

Elevation Partners Roger McNamee 10 Hypotheses For Tech Investing

The @RiotCleanup Story: 2 Days, 86,000 Followers and 84,000 Mentions

Big Data and the London Riots – How an NPR Journalist Created a Telling Interactive Map

Lead Up to VMworld: Let’s Get Some Perspective, Here

The Real-Time Equivalent for Agile – A Tweetdeck of a Different Scope

Why Did Apple and Facebook Go With Fusion-io? It’s All About the Data

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