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Social Media CEO Nightmare – Netflix Getting Caught in the Net of Anti Innovation
{Update: See at end of the post} The SEC is locking its’ sight on possibly suing Netflix Reed Hastings over some innocuous post on Facebook. Netflix disclosed on Thursday that the SEC put Netflix and CEO Reed Hastings on notice for a so called Wells notices. This a formal notice that the SEC may file civil lawsuits ...
Cloudera Scores Massive $65m Series E Funding – Can They Keep Soaring?
Cloudera, announced that they just closed $65 million series E financing. Majority of the funding will be use to try to continue to expand their lead in the Hadoop market that they pioneered. The working capital will be used to expand their sales and marketing capability and international footprint. According to Cloudera they are ...
Oracle Hires Cloud Startup CEO Scott Genereux to Boost Global Infrastructure Strategy
According to updates posted on LinkedIn, Oracle has hired enterprise cloud storage veteran and cube alumni Scott Genereux as its Senior Vice President of Global Hardware Strategy, Planning and Product Management. Genereux was previously CEO of Nirvanix growing cloud startup. This appears to be a new role, where Genereux will be responsible for all strategy ...
HP’s Big Infrastructure Announcements at HP Discover Germany Software Defined Datacenter
HP Storage team just introduced at their European HP Discover (#hpdiscover) event what they call as their biggest announcement ever. Here is our Breaking Analysis of their approach that we just posted. HP announced the following new product and solutions. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage Effortless Tier 1 Storage with Midrange Affordability HP StoreAll Storage ...
HP Official Response to Mike Lynch Letter to Board – “Stand Down Liar”
HP just issued a response to Mike Lynch’s open letter to the board. HP is saying stand down you fool we’ll see you in court. This is their response to Mike Lynch’s aggressive PR campaign to try to sway public opinion against HP to deflect the “crap” that surrounds his reputation. Here is the ...
Exclusive: Autonomy Missed Revenue by 90% – The Big, Bad Data – Crime of the Century
HP has confirmed to me that their $8.8 billion write-down related to Autonomy has a big time accounting scandal tied to it and Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch. According to a source, the Autonomy accounting scandal caused Autonomy to miss their first quarter numbers by 90% after HP paid $11 billion. What happened? When ...
SiliconANGLE Wikibon Release New Social Analytic Data on Software Defined Networking Vertical
SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are releasing our new Social Analytics Insights product called TrendConnect, an original realtime vertical market data service. Today, we are releasing our second report on Software Defined Networking or SDN. SDN Social Analytics – Key Findings Business value in the enterprise data center over the next decade will increasingly come from software ...
Mozilla is Free That’s Why It’s Awesome
Support Mozilla!! A Twitter friend of mine John Barbagallo @jbarbagallo just tweeted … “Mozilla ain’t in it for the money…which is why they’re awesome.” This on the heals of the recent release of the Mozilla annual financial report for 2011 as well as the annual “State of Mozilla” report by the organization’s Chair Mitchell Baker as reported today. Google ...
MongoDB 10gen Gets Endorsement & Strategic Investment from Intel Capital and Red Hat
Big Data is smoking hot. Today, 10gen the company behind the commercialization of MongoDB, announced a strategic investment from Intel Capital and Red Hat. MongoDB is part of the database wars we are seeing in the Big Data space. SiliconANGLE and Wikibon have released research that show that Mongo is growing more popular than Hadoop. ...
RED FLAG for Facebook – Groping for Business Model ??
Facebook is an amazing application. used by almost 1 billion people. It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Facebook and also a critic of their lack of scalable business model. Regarding the business model question for consumer companies, I have said publicly many times that you can’t change the user experience to force a ...