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It’s Unanimous!! FTC Clears Google On AdMob Acquisition – FTC Agreed With Us
{Update: The largest independent mobile ad network Millennial Media put out their response. It’s from their CEO Paul Palmieri. } After months of speculation, debate, and analysis the FTC approves of the Google acquisition of Admob by unaninmous vote 5-0. SiliconANGLE was first to provide critical analysis of the FTCs argument that there was no competition. ...
Google Introduced Google TV – Apple Envy Continues But Focused On Developers
At Google’s world wide developer conference called Google I/O in San Francisco Google announced their new initiative into TV or Google TV. At SiliconANGLE we predicted this two years ago and now it’s a reality. Before we get into the details lets look at what this really represents – It’s Apple envy but competing in ...
Video Wrap Up: SAP Sapphire From The Cube
After a few days at SAP Sapphire we learned alot and had many guests. We will be flowing out videos over the next week. SAP is renewed in their focus across their organization. Here is the Wrap Up: SAP Sapphire 2010 from Orlando Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from SAPphire on Justin.tv
Video: Pat Gelsinger Announces SAP Partnership With EMC for Comprehensive Solution For Private Cloud
Pat Gelsinger, president of EMC, announced on SiliconANGLE’s “The Cube” at Sapphire that EMC has partnered with SAP to deliver a comprehensive enterprise solution. Storage and networking are becoming very critical in the new equation of the cloud computing paradigm. Pat goes on to talk about all this and more on SiliconANGLE’s The Cube at ...
Short Video Clip: Pat Gelsinger Talks About Intel vs EMC Culture – EMC is More Customer Focused
Pat Gelsinger, ex Intel 30 year vet now the President and COO of EMC, sat down with me and Dave Vellante at SAP Sapphire to talk tech and what EMC is doing at SAP Sapphire. Here in this clip Mark Rizzn Hopkins and Michael Sean Wright asked Pat to followup on Joe Tucci’s comments about ...
Analysis: Enterprise Wars – SAP Buys Sybase – Good Move For SAP
SAP’s $5.8B acquisition of Sybase is being touted by many in the news media as a desperate act by a firm in trouble who overpaid for a legacy asset. Here at SiliconAngle we’ve been following the disruptive trends and this deal makes sense. A new world has emerged (well documented here at SiliconANGLE.com) and it’s ...
Study Shows Private Clouds More Cost Effective Than Public Clouds
According to Wikibon, an industry analyst research firm, a new study reveals that private clouds are more cost effective than public clouds. This is interesting because the debate has been raging on about public and private clouds for months. Although the hype of public clouds have been high there hasn’t been much action in term ...
Cloud & Storage Blowout – Chowda, SiliconANGLE, The Cube, and EMC World – Shipping Up To Boston
UPDATE: John tweeted out just before he got onto the plane for Boston #emcworld Sox/Yankees Sunday at fenway. 2 tix to best comment my Chowda/TheCube post (http://bit.ly/aSSAAk) or RT it. To clarify, retweet out the line above, make sure you include the #EMCworld hashtag, and leave an impressive comment here on the site, and the ...
Death Of The Netbook? Apple Sells 1 Million iPads – 30% Estimated To Be 3G; New User Experience Very Compelling
Apple just announced that they have sold over 1 million iPads. I hope this data released by Apple and validated by consumers serves as a wake up call for Intel to start innovating fast because the much under-marketed Netbook initiatives are all but toast. Intel does have a consumer marketing team and they need to ...
Steve Jobs Memo: Thoughts on Flash (Why Apple Doesn’t Use Flash)
Apple put out a release by the CEO Steve Jobs on his thoughts on Flash. Basically it’s a slam on Adobe. Here are some of the highlights from Steve’s statement: Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big ...