John Furrier

John Furrier is founder, co-CEO, of SiliconANGLE Media consisiting of SiliconANGLE.com. theCUBE.net, theCUBEresearch.com, and our AI Video Media Cloud. The combination of all these brands creates a new media company covering the intersection of computer science and social science. Furrier's vision is of a future that uses technology and data to create quality content and user experiences while creating and growing quality communities. Simply put: To extract the signal from the noise! Our motto: we cover everything "where Computer Science meets Social Science". Furrier lives in Palo Alto, California.

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Twitter Analytics Lead Kevin Weil Inside theCube – An Interview at Hadoop World 2010

This is a transcription of analytics lead for Twitter Kevin Weil, at HadoopWorld 2010. conducted by Wikibon.com Co-Founder David Vellante and SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier live broadcast at Hadoop World on SiliconAngle.tv. Because this is a transcript and not intended as an article, speakers are identified by their initials. JF: So you gave a talk, ...

Christine Herron Leaves First Round Capital Joins Intel Capital

Christine Herron a venture capitalist at First Round Capital is leaving to join Intel Capital according to her tweets and blog post. She is moving on from her "first round" as a venture capitalist to her "second stint" at Intel Capital. Her main charter will be to drive the Intel consumer and Internet deals from ...

Cloud Collision – Trends in Storage Which Will Drive More Cloud & Mobile Adoption and Better User Experience

I’ve been deep in the storage and cloud world for the past year tracking some of the hottest trends with market leaders like EMC, Fusionio, Compellent, Falconstor, HP, IBM, and others. One thing is clear: storage is sexy and hot. Some recent news got my attention and prompted me to write about some of the ...

HP Slate and HP Converged Networks Poised For The Future

HP is not stopping it’s plans to be a leader in technology even among all the tainted press received from the tainted Mark Hurd era.  HP is bringing the consumer and converged networking story together. HP has at last revealed its long-awaited Slate, an 8.9-inch tablet with capacitive multi-touch and running Windows 7. This is ...

President Obama Silicon Valley Visit – Obama Friends Marissa Mayer For Fundraiser – No Evil Please

Palo Alto streets will be closed tonight from 5-8pm in preparation for tonight’s scheduled fundraising visit by President Barack Obama to the home of Google executive Marissa Mayer. Marissa lives right around the corner from me so I might do a fly by. I’ve been to Marissa’s house before as she is known for throwing ...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers KPCB $250 Million Social Venture Fund

Today, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) today announced the formation of their new sFund, a new $250 million initiative to invest in entrepreneurs inventing social applications and services. KPCB is flexing its muscle in Silicon Valley off the success of the $100 million iFund to finance iPhone application development, which was later increased to ...

Video Interview: Bank of America on Big Data and the second industrial revolution – Transcript

This is a transcription of an interview of Abhishek Mehta, managing director for big data and analytics for Bank of America on SiliconAngle.tv in which he discusses the disruptive nature of big data, which is 95% unstructured, the primacy of data in all businsses and how we are entering the second great industrial revolution with ...

Mobile Forces Drive The Apple iPhone verses Android War – Steve Jobs Is Worried – New Products & Money Are Critical

Apple is planning a big press event this morning.  Over the past few days Apple has shown the world that their franchise on the new web is dominating.   Apple’s financial performance is staggering. Apple’s performance is about the present and the future.   It was reported via asymco.com that 60 percent of Apple’s sales are from ...

PR Consolidation: Lewis PR Buys PageOne PR – Good Move For PageOne

It was announced on the PageOne PR that LewisPR acquired them.  Price was not disclosed.  PageOne PR is in the trenches with VC backed companies and global brands like Cisco and SAP.  I also know about them because they also do PR for Cloudera.  PageOne PR was founded by Lonn Johnston and Craig Oda. PageOne ...

Seagate Going Private – Did They Miss The Solid State Market For Storage

According to Reuters report today, Seagate Technology said that it was approached by another company interested in taking it private. On the going private news Seagate shares surged over 20 percent. Here is a snippet from Reuters story The hard drive manufacturer also said it retained Morgan Stanley & Co Inc and Perella Weinberg Partners ...