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Confirmed: Juniper Networks Lays Off – At Least 300 Gone Amidst Restructuring it’s 3% not 4% of Workforce
Update: Juniper did confirm layoffs (see update below). According to Forbes story last week by Eric Savitz titled Juniper: Will Slowing Business Trigger Big Layoffs? Juniper is going to layoff a portion of its staff. The Forbes story reports that Juniper’s performance is hurting enough to spark layoff speculation. According to a source inside Juniper, ...
Message to Meg Whitman: How to Boost Public Confidence in HP in 3 Strategic Steps; Extra Credit: Punch Oracle in the Face
Dear Meg (and Ray Lane), I wanted to share my near-term recommendations for HP to quickly re-establish its credibility with investors, analysts and large enterprise customers: 1) Fix The Autonomy Deal: First and foremost, activate the termination clause for the recently announced abomination of an acquisition known as Autonomy. I know that it’s pretty much ...
Facebook F8 – Welcome to the New LinkedFaceTweet+
[This is a guest post by Vanessa Camones, CEO and Founder of theMIX agency, a digital marketing consulting agency. get updates via her FB timeline or tweet @vanessacamones]- JF On the first day of Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, the world’s biggest social network presented a nonstop barrage of new features on top of ...
Menlo Ventures Launches $20 Million Early Stage/Talent Fund
Shervin Pershevar announced on stage at the AOL TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference that he and Menlo Ventures has started a $20 million fund. The fund will be called the Menlo Talent Fund. Shervin and his team at Menlo Ventures will invest $200,000 in early stage startups. According to the news Menlo will turn around a ...
Freestyle Capital Exploding on The Scene Closes $27m Fund, More Exits Coming
Two respected tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel officially announced their early-stage VC firm Freestyle Capital. Although Dan Primack of Fortune Term Sheet blog reported that Freestyle’s fund been public for sometime, it appears the Freestyle team wanted to announce exclusively at the Techcrunch event. Freestyle’s two founders are entrepreneurs and have been together ...
SiliconANGLE/Wikibon #1 in Real Time Original Content at VMworld 2011
Something hit me today when I was watching the Techcrunch implosion and talking to LinkedIn trying to get SiliconANGLE in their daily news paper feed. SiliconANGLE is #1 in original content at tech events we cover, and is rising fast in the original content tech media business. So I wanted to share with Dan Ross ...
Will VMware’s New Cloud Plans Cripple OpenStack?
In the new era of where overnight the wrong strategy decision can sink a company (even established legendary ones), cloud platform and developer decisions are most important. VMware and others are moving fast in announcing and delivering real cloud platforms, products, and services. Since its’ founding OpenStack has gotten lots of attention from industry companies ...
Announcing SiliconANGLE.tv VMworld Live #theCUBE Schedule – 8 hrs/day x 4 days of Live Video Coverage of #VMworld 2011
I am excited to share with you the full schedule for our live video program at VMworld 2011 where we will be on the scene with blanket broadcast coverage. SiliconANGLE.tv Productions with VMware, SiliconANGLE.com, and Wikibon.org bring to you an unprecedented and comprehensive 4 days of live in-depth coverage from VMWorld Live via #theCUBE – ...
End of An Era: Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO – Tim Cook Steps in
Steve Jobs and Apple computer announced today that he is stepping down as CEO of Apple Computer. Here is Steve Jobs’ personal letter to his fans and friends. Apple Computer, the company Jobs with longtime friend Steve Wozniak changed the world of personal computing forever, laying the groundwork for Apple to become the innovative leader ...
Steve Jobs Quits As Apple CEO – The Steve Jobs Resignation Letter
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO on Wednesday. Here is his resignation letter. To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you ...