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Metaswitch Has New CEO Kevin DeNuccio – A Networking Industry Veteran
Metaswitch Networks today signaled its ambition to become a major telecommunications vendor, with the appointment of successful industry executive Kevin DeNuccio as chief executive officer. Timing is great in that Cisco is in the news with a recent earnings release pumpping up the crowd saying that market is ready for a comeback and today with ...
Juniper Fires At Cisco – Juniper Posts Some Killer Speeds for Core Routing
Juniper Networks (JNPR) is announcing some product news around their high end product that delivers 250Gbps and up to 4 Tbps total capacity to release the pressure for providers experiencing rapid grow in their networks. Today, Juniper Networks is announcing a new generation of silicon that enables customers to quickly, efficiently and non-disruptively upgrade existing ...
Massive Retrenchment and Salesmanship Give Cisco Earnings Bounce
After what some in Silicon Valley have been calling a ” Cisco Lock Down” – term used to describe the rabid focus to reduce expenses, travel restrictions to visit customers, systematic layoff of employees, and countless of restructuring, Cisco is getting a bounce with their latest earnings report – thanks to good operations and sales. ...
Attention Journalism Entrepreneurs: Twitter is Changing the Nature of News Media and Business
I’ve written on countless of times (and being correct of course) that Twitter (and social media) is massively disrupting many industry ecosystems. Today, NY Times writes a great post that completely validates the impact of the social web in their featured story on Twitter by Nick Bilton. Rather than trying to articulate (like many times ...
Google Nexus Closes Gap on IPhone with MultiTouch Capability
Google is announcing new over the air updates to Google Nexus One phones (aka gPhone). Engadget is reporting that Google is also providing multitouch capability – a much sought after feature of the iPhone and now tablets – iPad. I’ve blogged about the 5 reasons why I think the iPad will be successful here. This ...
Dan Rosensweig Takes CEO at Chegg or IPO Bound Chegg That Is
Dan Rosensweig, the former COO of Yahoo and recently the CEO and president of the Guitar Hero division of Activision Blizzard, is taking the CEO job at Chegg as reported by Kara (Ms. Exclusive) Swisher at AllThingsD.com. What Does This Mean? – IPO Bound Chegg Dan Rosensweig was hired to take Chegg public. Chegg is ...
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 ...