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Entrepreneurs Vote on Best VCs – Powered By TheFunded.com
Saw this list at PEHub.com – worthy of publishing. TheFunded.com put out a list of the top 50 most popular venture capitalists. It’s a good benchmark of which VCs are in the flow of deals and activity. In essence it’s the top 50 most engaging VCs in terms of popularity as voted on by entrepreneurs. ...
Cloud Startup Makara Hopes To Make Deploying Apps Easy and Fast
One of the biggest issues for developers is moving their apps to the cloud. Many companies like RackSpace (@rackcloud) and Amazon are trying to figure out ways to on-board developers to the cloud. Today, Makara, a cloud startup, is coming out of stealth mode to target developers to provide a way to seemlessly move thier ...
Upclose Video of Steve Jobs – Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg Video
In this great on the ground video you can get some candid clips of Steve being Steve. After you get over the Kara and Walt fawning over themselves there is a great section on Steve and nice wrap up in the end. I really love these clips from Kara. Nice job Kara and Walt. Enjoy.
Top 5 Reasons Why the Apple iPad Will Succeed BIG
Myself and a few of our members/contributors were talking about the success probability of the iPad. We think that it will be big. For 5 key reason (with a few bonus reasons) The Apple Tablet iPad will succeed mainly for the following 5 reasons: 1. As a result of the Apple stores, almost any product ...
Apple iPad Announcement – Apple iPad #iPad #Apple #SteveJobs
Apple releases information on iPad. The facts about the Apple iPad and Apple’s official release. After listening to Steve Jobs this morning (post is here), it is clear that their vision of technology meeting liberal arts is some of the most relevant product vision that I’ve seen in a decade. Of course the Apple vision ...
Breaking: Apple Tablet IPad – Apple is Biggest Mobile Device Company
It’s official! The Apple Tablet is here – It’s called the iPad. Apple Computer has launched their biggest new product since the iPhone and it’s the Apple Tablet according to all kinds of media hype. They sold our 250 millionth iPod Last quarter they had 250 million visitors to their stores App store: over 140,000 ...
Did Sun Founders Failed In The End? – Scott McNealy’s Final Memo
Update: I’ve been getting tons of emails privately from SUN fans, employees, and ex employees. SUN deserves the credit for many great things. I’m critical because I admired SUN for the brilliance and contribution. They had their miss steps that cause the current situation. In the end they contributed to the computer and software engineering ...
Cisco The Apple of Networking? NOT – The Polycom Juniper Partnership Implications
Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal broke a story that Polycom was teaming up with Juniper Networks to deliver a different approach to video conferencing (aka teleprence) as compared with Cisco’s highly touted and proprietary high end video conferencing solution dubbed Telepresence. Juniper and Polycom say the global market for visual communication managed services ...
Google Q4 Earnings Not Bad At All – Google is Still Unstoppable
Google (GOOG) reported Q4 earnings today. They reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, up 17% vs the fourth quarter of 2008. Earnings for the quarter came in at $1.97 billion, up from $348 million for the same quarter of 2008. Earnings per share were $6.13, up from $1.21 a ...
Changes in the Datacenter and Cloud – NewScale Allows Pioneers in Cloud to Work with IT
NewScale, a company that develops cloud services solutions, just last week announced record financial and customer results. This week, NewScale is announcing the release of newScale 9, which enables IT organizations to provide to their customers a self-service ordering and lifecycle management for both desktop and data center services, across cloud, virtual and physical compute ...