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Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Quits Yahoo – End of An Era Again
Jerry Yang stepped down from the board of Yahoo and severed all ties with Yahoo the company that he founded. As the young Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg rises taller everyday, the legend Jerry Yang sails into the sunset. This must be painful for Jerry since Yahoo could have bought Facebook for $700m only a few ...
Millennial Media Overtakes Apple in Mobile Ad Sales
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has lost the #2 market position in mobile ad sales to Millennial Media – the largest independent and now #2 in mobile ad sales. Bloomberg is also reporting the story. Last year according to IDC data, Apple shared the top spot in the mobile display ad market with ...
Breaking: HP to Open Source WebOS – Code Base and Continued Investment – A Good Move
HP CEO Meg Whitman is announcing that HP has officially open sourced WebOS. HP will contribute all the WebOS code base, Enyo framework, and continued investment into the WebOS technology platform. HP still has to make a decision on which approach to take. The Sun Microsystem approach (top down – corporate focused) or that of ...
Marc Andreessen and Andreessen Horowitz Deny Any Involvement In Yahoo Takeover
Here is the statement from Marc Andreessen on the speculation that he was in the running to take over the operating role of Yahoo. From Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz: Over the last several weeks, there have been erroneous reports in the press that my partner Jeff Jordan and/or I might ...
IBM Buys Cloud Analytics Firm, Nirvanix’ Cloud Gets “Immortalized”
Big moves continue to be made in the fast growing cloud space—a market projected to be over $20B in four years. Just this morning IBM announced that it’s spending $440M to acquire cloud-based analytics software maker DemandTech. The acquisition of DemandTec will extend IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based price, promotion and other merchandising ...
Cloud Storage is Hot; HP Bundles Box.net (Gigabyte scale) and Nirvanix Takes Hybrid Clouds to Hawaii (Petabyte scale)
Cloud Storage is hot and we are seeing big news today with HP and Nirvanix. These two announcements Box and Nirvanix highlight the contrast between two cloud storage startups Box (consumer) and Nirvanix (enterprise) cloud storage — the difference is one is at gigabyte-scale (Box.net) and other is at petabyte-scale (Nirvanix). On the high end ...
Cisco: Undervalued and on the Move Again on the Strength of the Core Data Center Business
At the peak of the dot.com boom Cisco became the world’s most valuable company at roughly $550B. Investors couldn’t get enough Cisco and drove its market cap skyward to 5X where it is today– just under $100B as of this writing. Subsequent to that bubble bursting, enterprise tech has been a mixed bag with stalwarts ...
Nirvanix Wins Massive 8 Petabyte Private Cloud Deal from USC – Validates Cloud Storage
The last 30 days for Nirvanix have been on fire—first the big-scale OEM deal with IBM Global Services, then the announcement that Cerner Healthcare was deploying a 3 petabyte private cloud and today news hits that the University of Southern California (Go Pac 12) has shifted 8 Petabytes of unstructured data to a Nirvanix private ...
Thoughts On Google Atmosphere – CIO ANGLE – SalesForce.com Should Be Scared Not Facebook
Thoughts from Atmosphere at Google – +SiliconANGLE Google Atmosphere event at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California is the company’s big enterprise CIO event. This is the event where Google parades out their top executives and promotes that they indeed know what they are talking about in the enterprise. Google is a growing enterprise vendor ...
Google Offering 24×7 Support for Enterprise Business Customers
Google announced today at Atmosphere, the CIO summit, 24×7 support for their business customers. Amit Singh announced the deal while promoting the Google success in the enterprise. Google’s mission is all about cloud, mobile, and social and they want to bring the mobile social cloud to all enterprises says Amit Singh. Core areas for Google ...
