Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Fusion-io Preps for IPO; Though Not Quite Ripe, Facebook Already a Data-Center Customer

By Kyt Dotson Mar 9, 2011

As big-time innovators in solid-state storage as it combines with distributed storage models, Fusion-io has been pushing the cloud-envelope on multiple fronts. Since their emergence into the scene as a start-up in 2006, they’ve…

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Stack Overflow Injects $12 Million, Mutates Into Stack Exchange

By Kyt Dotson Mar 9, 2011

The extremely popular questions-and-answers site, Stack Overflow, has just announced that they’ve finished a Series B funding round netting $6 million. This comes after an initial round of $6 million during May of last…

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Craigconnects: The Power of Crowdsourcing and Social Media Meets Nonprofits

By Kyt Dotson Mar 8, 2011

Craig Newmark—better known to the Internet at large as Craig of Craigslist—would like your attention and energy. He’s starting a social-media philanthropy venture to demonstrate and guide his efforts towards buttressing nonprofit organizations that…

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Adobe Meets Apple Head On with HTML5, Releases Flash Converter

By Kyt Dotson Mar 8, 2011

Apple has been at war with Flash for some time now—in fact, it’s persona non grata on iOS devices in lieu of hardware-accelerated, Johnny-come-lately HTML5. As a result, Adobe’s Flash gets left in the…

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Microsoft’s Defense for Nokia Deal Could Hurt Bottom Line

By Kyt Dotson Mar 8, 2011

The news is rolling in about a gigantic exchange of money from Microsoft to Nokia as part of the newly minted deal between the two corporations that would spread the Windows Phone 7 operating…

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Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million

By Kyt Dotson Mar 7, 2011

Adding to their long line of acquisitions, Google has just purchased the UK-based comparison shopping site BeatThatQuote.com. The purchase price has been set at £37.7 million (about $6.1 million.) The site allows consumers rate…

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PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit

By Kyt Dotson Mar 7, 2011

We’ve seen the Microsoft Kinect become the center of a mindstorm of innovation involving gesture controls, animation, and numerous other applications in the homebrew hacker sphere—and, of course, the framework for building on top…

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Skype Revenue Up 20% in 2010; Now Looking to Advertising on Road to Next Year’s IPO

By Kyt Dotson Mar 7, 2011

It’s been news for a while that Skype intends to make their initial public offering soon. Until recently, “soon” meant this year, but the company’s newly appointed CEO, Tony Bates, would like to wait…

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Blekko Human Curation Search Engine Releases Publisher Tools

By Kyt Dotson Mar 4, 2011

The search company, Blekko, launched back in November with a promising solution to search spam and the indefinable quality of information in search engines such as authority and site reliability. They have even spoken…

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Move.Me: Sony’s Very Own Motion Capture SDK

By Kyt Dotson Mar 3, 2011

Last month, Microsoft found time to release an SDK for the Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral—after a gigantic amount of hooplah when people discovered how imminently hackable the device is—and it’s been leaving other contenders…

Kyt Dotson

Adobe Meets Apple Head On with HTML5, Releases Flash Converter

Microsoft’s Defense for Nokia Deal Could Hurt Bottom Line

Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million

PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit

Skype Revenue Up 20% in 2010; Now Looking to Advertising on Road to Next Year’s IPO

Move.Me: Sony’s Very Own Motion Capture SDK

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