John Furrier
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Hey Google, it’s 2010 and this is your wake up call. Buy Skype. If I were at Google corp dev I’d be running those numbers now. Get cracking Google. More on that below back to the news at hand. Today, Skype is …
Letter From Twitter’s Biz Stone – MicroUpdates From The CoFounder
Here is a letter from Twitter CoFounder Biz Stone. I’m calling it the ‘micro-updates’ to communicate to their community. This is a great sign on top of a good week where Twitter put the stake in the ground and firmly ratifies their …
Mobile Innovation = Data; Why Millennial Media Was SMART in Buying TapMetrics
Mobile World Congress (#mwc10) was a great trip last week. One thing was crystal clear mobile everything (networking gear, operators, developers, devices, and services) is all about applications. In previous years Mobile World Congress was about the mobile Internet, but this year …
Slideshare Founders Talk About Entrepreneurship
Jonathan Boutelle and Rashmi Sinha, founders of the presentation-sharing site SlideShare, describe the entrepreneurial process as a series of pivots. Boutelle explains it’s not just a jump, but an evolving growth of stages that leads to an idea that can start a …
Bang Bang: Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner HP Returns Fire With Deal with Qlogic
Update: Immediately following my report Cisco put out an official statement on the terminating their relationship with HP. Reason: conflicting visions. I got confirmation today from someone inside Cisco that an internal memo went out announcing that Cisco is dumping HP as …
Innovation Is Going Mobile – Skype and Verizon Change The Game
I’ve arrived at Mobile World Congress and the news has hit about Skype and Verizon teaming up for unlimited calls on Verizon’s smartphone. I’ll be seeing the Skype folks tomorrow for a briefing, but the news is awesome. Here is the news …
Breaking News: Juniper Network Throws Down Big "Judo" Move On Cisco and Opens Up to be “The Google of Networking”
Bang! Big move by Juniper. Juniper Networks is making a big move in the networking market and its’ mobile war with Cisco. Today, Juniper is announcing the formation of a software division business group, headed by executive vice president and general manager, …
Google Launches Competitor to Twitter Then Facebook – Called Google Buzz
Google announces Social Web product – Twitter Killer Then Facebook Killer. As you know we cover the social web in depth here at SiliconAngle and this announcement was something we were watching. Why? Because many were wondering how Google would respond to …
Mobile US Marketshare For December – Numbers Released by Comscore
Interesting numbers being reported by Comscore. In my favorite area Smartphones, in the US Apple and Google take a bite out of RIM (the Blakcberry). All players lost share except Apple. More impressive is the performance of Google. I expect Google to …
Mobile News: Juniper Getting Stronger In Mobile – Research Validates The Market
News was broke by the Wall Street Journal yesterday that Juniper is announcing will begin selling new wireless products for mobile carriers, responding to bigger rival Cisco Systems recent acquisition of Starent – of which I was critical. According to Reuters news, …