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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 ...
“Cold Packet War” – Google China Showdown – Shuts Down China Redirects Traffic To Hong Kong
Today, Google shut down it’s China web site -google.cn. In a bold move Google is shutting it’s search and redirecting all traffic to Hong Kong at Google.com.hk. This is after months of threatening to bolt from China because of the hacking incident to Google and other US corporations. SiliconAngle’s Tom Foremski predicted this last week ...
For Sale: Palm. The Buyers: HP, Cisco, and Google?
Palm announced their quarterly results – bad really bad. Eric Savitz has a post on it with commentary from analysts. Palm stock had a brief run up yesterday at the bell and shortly afterward prior to the company’s call. Then the Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein opened his mouth – the stock plummeted. The news had ...
Cisco Says Its All About Security & Video – Announces Borderless Network Vision and New Switches
According to Forbes online, Cisco is announcing specifics on their Borderless Network vision with specifics on new switches. These specifics come one week after Cisco’s overblown router announcement that was supposed to change the Internet forever. We at SiliconAngle were reporting that Cisco was going to provide more ‘edge’ products as part of that big ...
EMC Does Deal with QLogic – Fibre Channel Switching Finding It’s Place In Datacenters – Data & Storage Networking
The convergence story is playing out on the main stage with the moves in the Fibre Channel market as reported by Network World this morning. EMC does deal with QLogic adding them to the list of approved EMC vetted solutions (thanks @stu from EMC for the clarification). EMC’s sales force will now be able to ...
Oracle Who? SAP Co-CEOs Slam Oracle – They Are The Old Way
Under a beautiful day in Silicon Valley while Jonathan Schwartz (ex Sun CEO) blogs away as a mere moral just weeks after Sun has been consumed by Oracle, SAP introduced the new five-week old partnership of co-chief executives Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott. Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott are sharing the role of CEO at ...
Twitter Data Suggests A New Class Of Web User – 80/20 Rule Applies
A report by Mashable that walks through data researched by Barracuda Networks Labs speaks volumes on what I call a new class of web user. The fanatic, engaged early adopter. We (SiliconAngle labs) were storing and analyzing twitter up until July 2009 until the project moved over to Bing. The reported data from Mashable is ...
Cisco Announced Router Upgrade – No New SetTop Box or Telepresence
As reported on Friday I was reporting a huge announcement from Cisco that was dubbed “The Internet will change forever” hype. If you want to track the live blogging of the announcement go here from Scott Raynovich. It was the general opinion of all journalists that this made Cisco look bad for overhyping this announcement. ...
Cisco Wants To Rule Your Living Room – Launching New High Speed Network With Set Top Box March 9
Update: Cisco Announces upgrade but no set top box and no telepresence. Three out of five of this report announced by Cisco. Reactions were not that favorable. Update (March 8 2010): Cisco’s Future Is Already Here — Looks like Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC, and Finistar are demonstrating trials on the eve of Cisco’s big announcement ...