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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 ...
Google Is The Next Google – Google Announces Quarter Earnings – Very Impressive Results
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. “Google had an excellent quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Our core business grew very well, and our newer businesses — particularly display and mobile — continued to show significant momentum. Going forward, we remain committed to aggressive investment ...
Oracle to Buy Out The Virtualization Market Leader EMC & VMware – Maybe $50b Gets The Job Done
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that shares of EMC Corp. (EMC) jumped Thursday on speculation that Oracle Corp. (ORCL) may be considering acquiring the data storage systems company. EMC shares were up 4.88% to $21.29 in early trading, closing in on its 52-week high of $21.83. Oracle’s stock was down about 1.16%. EMC shares ...
IBM Stares Into The Future of Cloud and Storage – It’s About Storwize and Real Time Compression
As I prepare for the big Hadoop World conference in NYC (which IBM will not be participating at), I am reflecting on IBM’s storage event that they held yesterday in NYC. Is IBM positioned for the future of the enterprise where the storage paradigm is the linchpin for cloud? Hadoop World will feature presentations by ...
QLogic Crushing It With Convergence for the Enterprise Cloud
We are now living in a converged enterprise infrastructure change over. Firms that are going fully to converged infrastructure will be the leaders in the enterprise and service provider infrastructure. Two examples are HP and QLogic. Both HP and QLogic are pumping out some serious market leading products that address a relevant and fast growing ...
Confirmed: Not First SuperAngels Collusion Meeting; Limited Partners Backing Out; Entrepreneurs Getting Screwed
Mike Arrington broke a story about a secret meeting of some of the big names of new super angels trying to figure out how to create "buddy networks" around early stage deals. My immediate reaction was no way that would happen. But after digging around, turns out, it is true. I have predicted the train ...
Avaya Flare IPad Clone Video Offering Looking To Competing With Cisco and Apple – Android The Secret Weapon?
Today, Avaya, announced a set of enterprise video products and services. They are calling it Avaya Flare Experience. It was unclear from the company’s messaging on the pricing but the positioning is clear – it’s a direct strike at Cisco and Apple. Avaya’s video device (tablet and iPad clone) features an 11.6″ HD touch screen ...
SAP vs. Oracle – Bill McDermott explains how SAP is different
At the SAP press conference today, I asked Bill McDermott, Co-CEO of SAP, specifically how SAP is different from Oracle? SAP has been the leader in business software for nearly four decades and McDermott had a compelling answer. Specifically, he said that despite “others” spending more than $50B in acquisitions to get into our space ...