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Juniper Networks $50 Million Venture Fund – Convergence & Innovation
Update: This post I tweeted and highlighted the fact that AT&T and Apple had “signal bar” issues. See the section below In this new networking paradigm or Infrastructure 2.0 market (smart networks) the trend as highlighted by Apple iPhone and Google Android is putting massive pressure on service providers to deliver capacity and growth in ...
Marc Benioff Sees The Future – It’s Cloud Highlighted By The IPad
Marc Benioff sees the future and it’s the IPad powered by the cloud. Marc is pushing all time hype into the IPad mainly because the IPad is nothing more than a lightning rod for this new distributed computing model called cloud. He’s right about that for sure – I mean cloud. Is the future “the ...
Tim O’Reilly 2008 Interview on Internet Operating System
After reading the very good updated state of the internet operating system published by Tim O’Reilly yesterday I felt it was appropriate to share an older interview that I did with Tim. Here is a podcast that I did with Tim O’Reilly back in June 2008 – this was part of a series that I ...
Cisco Gets Antitrust Approvals for Pending Acquisition of TANDBERG – Promises Open Approach
Cisco got US Department of Justice (DOJ) and European Commision approval of their acquisition of Tandberg. Today’s announcement is due to the fact that the US DOJ will not challenge the proposed acquisition in light of the commitments Cisco has made to the European Commission. The transaction remains subject to ongoing regulatory review in Brazil; ...
New iPhone Versions Coming With Custom iPhone For Verizon
According to the Wall Street Journal today, Apple is planning on releasing a new iPhone this summer. In addition Apple is in secret developments with Verizon for a special built unit for only Verizon Wireless. Just last month Verizon Wireless announced a custom deal with Skype and now it’s Apple. We had our angle on ...
How the Internet Is Changing? Kill The Old Bring In The New
I was talking this morning to an entrepreneur about the new internet, web 2.0, and network trends specifically how online advertising is changing. Ironically, SiliconAngle contributor Alex Calic posted a “deep angle” on this very topic on how data is changing advertising on the web. Then I saw a tweet from Louis Gray who pointed ...
Bradley Horowitz Interview By Dave McClure on What Google is Doing With Apps and Enterprise
Dave McClure who I really like with his recent push of investing and unearthing all internet related trends and startups has a great interview with Bradley Horowitz, VP Product in the enterprise and applications at Google. Bradley is one a rare talent both an entrepreneur and big company guy now at Google. Before Yahoo Bradley ...
Facebook Snags Another Googler: Ad Exec David Fischer
Our friend Kara Swisher has another great scoop over at AllThingsD: David Fischer–who was VP of Global Online Sales & Operations for Google and more recently was heading up its local efforts–is taking a job at Facebook as VP of Advertising and Global Operations, according to sources. Both Google (GOOG) and Facebook just sent out ...
Foursquare Close To Closing Venture Round – Case Study in Venture Capital
Mike Arrington is reporting that Foursquare is about to close a monster round of financing. Foursquare raised a seed round of just over $1 million from some great seed investors including Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Rose, Alex Rainert, Ron Conway, Joshua Schachter, Chad Stoller, Sergio Salvatore I’ve been hearing the ...
Cold Packet War!! – It’s Official China is a Virtual Rogue State
Yesterday, I wrote about Google’s historic move to shut down mainland China search engine and redirect all traffic to Hong Kong. I liked the move by Google and predicted that they would be shut down. I wrote Google is making a great move here – in fact very historic. However, they are still at risk ...
