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Social Gold Rush and Why Global Brands Need to be Ready- Pinterest is only the beginning
{Guest Post: John Bara, CMO, of Thismoment.com, the leading social marketing firms for top brands.} Palo Alto these days definitely has the aura of a gold rush. After the slowdown of the past few years, there is a noticeable uptick in the economy and of course the buzz around Facebook and the social gold rush ...
Nirvanix Takes on HDD Crisis with Global Cloud Services
Responding to the ongoing HDD shortage caused by the massive floods in Thailand—which is causing customers to pay top dollar for disk storage systems and face extended wait times while HDD manufacturers reap the profits—hypergrowth cloud storage startup Nirvanix today announced that its fully armed and ready to address the HDD crisis by helping customers ...
Big Data Is PC-Like Revolution – Biggest Shift In Decades
I was recently asked about why I’m so into big data. As SiliconANGLE prepares to do our live SiliconANGLE.tv show at #stratconf with The CUBE, I wanted to share a post that I made on Google + this morning in response to this article on quantum computing. Data is the biggest thing to hit the ...
HP LeftHand Exec Bails for Nirvanix Cloud
Fast growing cloud storage startup Nirvanix this morning announced that Dave Barr, HP’s ace engineering director for the LeftHand Storage Group—a $350M business—had left the company to join Nirvanix. This is a very interesting move as it marks the second HP storage exec to leave the company in the past 2 weeks. The first departure ...
Big Data Market $50 Billion by 2017 – HP Vertica comes out #1 – According to Wikibon Research
Want to know who is making money in Big Data. Want to know Market Size? Now a report just released by research firm Wikibon details it all. Wikibon.org, the leader in big data, cloud, and converged infrastructure research, just put out the first ever research report on the size of the Big Data market with ...
Guest Post: Unshackling Your Data-driven Web Apps
Written by Ines Sombra, Data Engineer, Engine Yard It is so easy to start a fight. Ask your friends whose legacy is more timeless: the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. If you’re watching a soccer game, declare that Cristiano Ronaldo is highly overrated. Or, if you’re at a database conference, tell those relational database types that ...
Micron Technology CEO Steve Appleton 51 Dies In Tragic Plane Crash
Steve Appleton, the chairman and CEO of Micron Technology died today in a small plane crash. Appleton, a professional stunt plane pilot and former motocross racer, was the only one in the plane when it crashed. Micron Technology is a global maker of DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory. The company’s stock (MU) which trades ...
Super Bowl 2012 or Social Bowl 2012? Social Means Business for the World’s Largest Brands.
Super Bowl time is here! Is it a football game or a social event? Brady or Manning? Pats or Giants? Who will win? Some people say who cares…I’m all about the party and the Super Bowl ads. Clearly, large global brands have decided that social means business, and the Super Bowl will become the Social ...
Facebook IPO is Filed – It’s Official – Billions in Revenue and Profit
Facebook has filed for it’s initial public offering – link to S1 here. Facebook filing shows massive revenue in 2011 of $3 billion with net income of $1 billion. At the end of 2011 they had just a hair under $4 billion in the bank. Not too shabby for Facebook. See my coverage here and ...
Facebook Filing Tomorrow for $5 Billion IPO not $10 Billion – Morgan Stanley Leads IPO
Facebook is expected to file their IPO paperwork tomorrow with authorities for a $5 billion initial public offering. The social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, has chosen Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter with four others playing a role. Others include Goldman Sacks, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, and JP Morgan. Facebook ...