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HP Board Shakeup – Ray Lane Steps Down as Chairman Two Others Step Down
After HP’s recent shareholder meeting and recent downgrade by Goldman Sachs, HP announced changes to the Company’s board of directors. According to HP, Raymond Lane has decided to step down as chairman of the board, to be replaced on an interim basis by Ralph V. Whitworth. The board is commencing a search for a permanent ...
Most Disruptive Technology of the Next Five Years Will Be….. #pc13
What will be the next big thing and what will “enable” this disruption. I will try to explore this in Boston this week. Here are my notes as prep for what I think will be the ingredients of the next big thing. I’d like to hear any feedback. Thanks. I am moderating a panel of venture ...
What If Angel Investment Market Crashes?
By Kevin Dick, Founder Right Side Capital Management. In my last post, I showed how diversification helps an angel portfolio get closer to the true underlying return of the market. Based on the AIPP’s historical sample of angel-backed startups that meet my RSCM‘s investment criteria, we saw that 70 investments would have given you a ...
Red Hat Earnings 4th Quarter – Doing Ok But Not Great
This afternoon, Red Hat announced its fourth quarter results and fiscal year 2013 results. Highlights include: Fourth quarter revenue of $348 million, up 17% year-over-year; full fiscal year revenue of $1.33 billion, up 17% year-over-year Fourth quarter subscription revenue of $303 million, up 19% year-over-year; full fiscal year subscription revenue of $1.15 billion, up 19% ...
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Storage 2012 – Boring + Irrelevant. The Sad Tech Version of Nielsen?
Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for midrange and high-end storage arrays is out, and according to a blog post from Wikibon’s chief analyst Dave Vellante, it’s a mashup of different protocols, formats, sizes and shapes. In a word describing this report – Boring. Ok one more word – Irrelevant. Here’s the issue in my opinion – ...
Data: Silicon Valley Startup Scene Getting Squeezed at the Series A Level Says Fenwick & West Law Firm
Fenwick and West, a Silicon Valley law firm, put out data from 2012 that describes the state of the seed financing landscape. This is the firm’s third survey and it is mainly focused on Internet, software, and media startups. Read : Seed Financing Survey 2012 Of the companies funded in 2011, 27 percent had ...
Apple Security Hole Exposes Users – Apple Adds Two Step Verification or Two Factor Authentication
A new security vulnerability affects Apple users that allows anyone who has your email address and date of birth (DOB) to reset your password. While Apple was adding two-factor authentication, it saw a vulnerability that opens a huge security hole if you don’t upgrade. In an apparent good deed gone sideways Apple opened up a security hole while trying to add ...
Jeff Hammerbacher Chief Data Scientist Wants To Change the World – Charlie Rose Interview
At SiliconANGLE we coined a term “tech athlete” a person who consistently demonstrates excellence at all levels. Jeff Hammerbacher is a “tech athlete”. In real life he was a real athlete going to Harvard to play baseball and then on to be the founder of Facebook’s data science operation. Today, Jeff Hammerbacher, is the Cloudera ...
Breaking Analysis : Oracle Earnings #Fail + Stock Drop – Sales Under Assault from Open Source
Oracle announced a rather poor quarter yesterday, blaming poor sales tactics for a really bad third-quarter software sales. And things are only going to get worse, with Oracle saying it will lose more ground this quarter. Investors were left wondering, while its stock has dropped since the trade floor opened this morning. According to a report ...
Breaking Analysis: HP Increases Dividend – Showing Wall Street Confidence
Hewlett-Packard today announced that the HP board of directors has authorized a 10 percent increase in the amount of its regular quarterly dividend, to $0.1452 per share. The increase in the amount of the dividend will be effective when the HP board of directors declares HP’s next dividend, which is expected to occur in May. ...