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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 ...
“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 ...