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Alibaba Founding CEO + Board Drop Out, Make Room for New Talent
Jack Ma, a former English teacher, is one of the richest men in China. The 49 year old entrepreneur is the mastermind behind Alibaba Group, a company that operates six of the most popular sites in China including Alibaba.com, Taobao Marketplace and Yahoo! China. Reuters reports that Ma is resigning from his post to assume ...
Dell Follows HP in PC Recovery Tactics: Aggressive Spending in Product Development
According to a Taiwanese research firm, Dell overtook Acer as the third largest PC manufacturer by revenue in the fourth quarter. The spot was previously held by Acer, which experienced a 15 percent sales decline in the same period. “Citing Digitimes Research, Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) reported Sunday Acer notebook shipments fell by more than 15 ...
Brocade Taps Former Juniper COO as Chief Executive
Brocade abruptly appointed Lloyd Carney to the position CEO today. He is replacing Michael Klayko, who served as the networking solutions maker’s chief executive since 2005. “After a thorough and robust search process, the Board believes that Mr. Carney is the ideal leader to take Brocade to the next level,” said David House, the chairman ...
HP Creates Converged Cloud Unit for Agility, Support
Hewlett-Packard upgraded the status of its converged cloud business to a full-fledged unit, according to AllThingsD. The newly announced group will be headed by Saar Gallai, the current senior vice president and general manager of converged cloud. Gillai joined HP in 2010 as the CTO of its networking business after the company’s acquisition of 3Com, ...
The Two Types of Funded Startups that will Survive, or Crash in Our New Economy
We’ve survived the apocolypse and the fiscal cliff, but many still wonder what this new economy means for investments in the tech sector. Venture capitalism is one of our founder’s favorite topics, so if there’s a camera and a microphone around, SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier could talk about investments all day. He made an appearance on ...
A Look Back at HP’s Recent PC Strategy + Payoffs
At CES last week we got a chance to see exactly what’s behind the buzz in mobile: every major manufacturer launched at least one smartphone, tablet, phablet or some other mobile device with its own unique branding. But while the personal computer was not the center of attention by any stretch of the imagination, it ...
Two Decade Patent Reign for IBM, and a More Polite Watson
According to patent research firm IFI, IBM filed more patents than anyone else for the 20th year in a row. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued 253,155 patents in 2012, an all time high that beats the number of patents handed out in 2011 by a margin of 13 percent. IBM landed the top ...
FalconStor Pays $5M to Finally End Bribery Kerfuffle
Backup solutions vendor FalconStor had a run in with the law three years ago, when it was discovered that founding CEO ReiJane Huai and two other executives committed bribery to illegitimately obtain contracts for their firm. The client in question was JP Morgan. Over $300,000 in illicit compensation exchanged hands between ReiJane and his colleagues ...
HP Opens New Facility to Accelerate In-Memory Analytics
Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of a new Center of Excellence that develops best practices for HANA and the SAP Business Suite, a catalog of applications built on top of the analytics engine. “To succeed, organizations need to make fast, informed decisions by extracting large amounts of raw data from their systems to turn it into ...
Stats, Acquisitions and Security This Week in Big Data
No one is questioning that the analytics industry is growing like crazy, but the specific figures are up for dispute. To be more specific, IDC recently released a big data market report that predicted this segment will balloon to $24 billion by 2016 – less than half of what Wikibon forecasted in a study released ...