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Linksys Group at Cisco Sold to Belkin
Cisco System dumped their Linksys group in deal with Belkin. It was announced that Belkin entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit which included Linksys. Belkin intends to maintain the Linksys brand and will offer support for Linksys products as part of this transaction. All valid warranties will be honored by Belkin ...
Swipp Startup Announces New Social Network For Sharing
Today, Swipp a Silicon Valley startup announces their social network application platform called Swipp. Swipp is a standalone application and underlying platform that is being launched in 45 countries simultaneously. This should give the new application a good start. Swipp founders told me that they are thinking big. They hope Swipp will become a billion dollar ...
Fusion-io Launched New Hyperscale Flash Product to Scale Data Centers for Enterprises, Not Just Facebook
Two years ago I wrote about Facebook’s infrastructure would be the model for infrastructure of all enterprise information technology environments. That post was an effort to explain (at the time) why SiliconANGLE was bullish on Fusion-io when the general market was confused. It is now what we coined as Software-led Infrastructure (SLI). I wrote about ...
Facebook Launches Social Search – Called Graph Search
Update: I just spoke with Mark Zuckerberg right after the event and asked him what the tech was involved in this new big search plan. He told me that Facebook built their own system, called Unicorn, and it will have two strategies for this front end to handle the queries and natural language as well ...
Cloud Trends: Can Amazon Shed the Low End Image of Shadow IT in the Enterprise
Research study report from the team at Wikibon.org goes in-depth on Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) plans to attack the enterprise market. Can Amazon win in the enterprise? SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are on the case. Here is a detailed report from Wikibon.org – a must read if you are looking at Amazon in the enterprise market ...
How Many Angel Investments? This is Moneyball of VC Trend
{Guest Post: This is a guest post from Kevin Dick , cofounder of Right Side Capital Management, an emerging algorithmic early stage “moneyball” venture capital firm. Kevin has two degrees from Stanford and has been a founder of multiple successful tech startups.} As regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of the AIPP data set collected by Rob ...
Breaking: EMC Ventures Executive Shawn Douglass Joins ServiceMesh as CTO
Changes at EMC Ventures are happening big time. We saw Pat Gelsinger put his stamp on EMC now VMware. Paul Maritz was sitting at EMC ventures cooking up his next “meal” – the Pivotal Initiative. Of course there was the big Nicira acqusition by EMC VMware. Lots happening there at EMC VMware et al. Now ...
In Memory of Aaron Swartz: Take a Step Back – The Aaron Swartz Raw Nerve Essays
To understand Aaron Swartz is to read his last few essays. I found Aaron Swartz’s series of essays called RawNerve. I am reposting his first entry called Take a step back which this repost of his original post that introduced the his new series, Raw Nerve from this past year. The full series is here: Raw ...
Aaron Greenspan is Creating Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants
Death of Aaron Swartz is causing outpouring of feelings (see story) never seen in decades and even the family is establishing foul play (see story). Now we are seeing financial support from the community of internet citizens. Aaron Greenspan, the entrepreneur and writer of the Lost Chapter an essay that tells the real story about ...
Family of Reddit Cofounder Aaron Swartz Says Massachusetts and MIT Contributed to his Death
The family of Internet freedom fighter and social activist hero Aaron Swartz put out an official statement. Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing. Aaron’s death is not simply a personal ...