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iPhone 4 AntennaGate Head To Verizon – Verizon iPhone Will Have Issues
The much anticipated iPhone4 launch on Verizon is finally happening today. It’s great news for Apple and consumers, as the complaints have piled up on AT&T on coverage and signal. The ongoing impression over the past year in the tech business has been that Apple’s phone has a hard time making calls – in reference ...
Handling Big Data For Content Creators – Interview with Yoni Cohen Founder of Snowball vfx
This is a video from IBM talking about a customers success story from a innovator called Snowball Vfx. Snowball | VFX, industry innovator in video and animation takes advantage of IBM Real-time Compression to run their business more competitively. Handling data for media like video and special effects for animation is one of the biggest ...
Company Profile: "The SiliconANGLE" on Fusion-io
Fusion-io is one of those companies that comes around just once in a while that transforms the data center. I love this company. Why? Fusion-io has some of the smartest people in tech, their product is “running the table” on key wins, their CEO was on theCube, and the Woz works there. More importantly, Fusion-io ...
Why Dell’s Acquisition of Compellent is a Smart One
Editor’s Note: Last week the SiliconANGLE team met and decided to introduce a new format for our readers called “The SiliconANGLE.” Since our founding in the middle of 2009, there is one thing that SiliconANGLE has become known for – a unique angle on key news, trends, technologies, and companies. Now we are introducing “the ...
SalesForce.com Buys Heroku In Hopes To Be The Platform For Cloud Developers
Salesforce.com is plowing further into the cloud market recently announced its purchase of $212 million for Heroku, a cloud platform as a service, (PaaS) for $212 million in cash in an effort to expand into the fast growing social media and mobile space. M&A has been hot in storage, and now heating back up in ...
What Is A Rock Star Founder? Simple Answer: Keep Control After VC Series A
Paul Graham just posted one of his articles called “Founder Control”. I was eager to write this post, because as I have said before, the real rock star founders are the ones that can keep control of their company after their VC Series A. T he hall of fame founders are the ones that can ...
Mobile Advertising Booming – Google Apple & Millennial Media Top 3
I read an article from BusinessInsider by Dan Frommer today around the top mobile advertising platforms. We’ve been covering this sector over over a year and a half, years and in that time we have seen AdMob get bought by Google and Millennial rise to the top of the independent list. It’s a growing and ...
Chrome OS Coming Tomorrow? I Predicted It Two Years Ago
Google has a big announcement regarding Chrome planned for tomorrow, and SiliconANGLE will be there taking tons of photos and covering the action. I wrote a post two years ago when Chrome was launched. If my predictions come true, this will be a move toward a full on Chrome OS for netbooks and tablets. Google ...
VCE – VMware Cisco EMC Joint Venture Showing Traction With Customer Win
The joint venture Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition between VMware, Cisco, and EMC is showing some traction. Yesterday, Cisco announced today that NBN Co, the company set up by the federal government to design, build and operate Australia’s wholesale-only, high speed broadband network, has selected Cisco to lead the implementation of its data centre infrastructure. ...
NetApp Gaining Share Despite Hacker Stock Drop Scare Yesterday – Business is Good For NTAP
Yesterday, NetApp’s stock took a nose dive due to a reported unauthorized access to the earnings data. It was speculated by me that a hacker might have got the data. I still think something is up with that because there was certainly some buying going on with NetApp stock. As of today the stock is ...