Kristen Nicole

Named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data, Kristen Nicole is currently a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. She got her start with 606tech, a Chicago blog she dedicated to the social media space, going on to become the lead writer and Field Editor at Mashable.

Kristen Nicole has also contributed to other publications, from TIME Techland to Forbes. Her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC.

Kristen Nicole published her first book, The Twitter Survival Guide, and is currently completing her second book on predictive analytics.

Latest from Kristen Nicole

Smart home market needs partnerships to manage niche gadgets : The Staples + Zonoff story

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

The home automation market is becoming a fragmented one, what with all the smart gadgets hitting store shelves and Kickstarter campaigns launched daily. Cheap components and pliable software provide endless niches to fill, catering to dozens of smart home needs and desires. …

Pricy WhatsApp goes to Facebook : Here’s 4 alternatives

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

Facebook will pay top dollar to survive this fickle world of social media software, and will pay even more to throttle the competition. After two years of speculating who would buy the instant-messenger service WhatsApp, it was Facebook that made an irrefutable …

LIVE chat today : Ask EMC President anything about the evolution from 2nd to 3rd infra platform | #AskBrianG

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

The modern data center is something we dream about, with industry innovators re-architecting IT infrastructure to become more efficient, and achieve economy of scale. For companies like EMC, the evolution path to the modern data center is a very real transition, impacting …

Real-time rules in Hadoop ecosystem : Splice Machine bags $15M, matures Big Data

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

Splice Machine, an up-and-coming analytics provider working to move Hadoop beyond batch processing, announced this week that it has raised $15 million in Series B financing from InterWest Partners. Existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) also participated in the round, which brings …

SiSense optimizes analytics platform for mobile | #BigDataSV

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

Today at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara, cloud analytics specialist SiSense unveiled a new version of its flagship offering that has been optimized for smartphones and tablets. With the number of mobile devices set to exceed the world’s population this year, …

Evolve or Die : Ask EMC President anything about the evolution from 2nd to 3rd infra platform | #AskBrianG

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

Can data management be as easy as Facebook? Alpine Data Labs thinks so | #BigDataSV

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

It’s a week of Big Data celebration with #BigDataSV kicking off today, and the Strata Conference taking place right across the street. As expected, a number of product announcements have hit the news stream this week, as Big Data players like Cloudera, …

Smart home startup advice : User interface design trends

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

A quick perusal of Kickstarter or Indigogo confirms, the smart home market is a thrilling place to be. Thanks to crowdfunding, quick-build smartphone apps and decreasing hardware costs, anyone can craft and launch a smart home service, connecting people and their abodes. …

Going to Strata? … Party with theCUBE @ #BigDataSV!

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

It’s Big Data season, and a love for analytics is in the air. If you’re attending Strata, take a break from the show floor and join friends and #theCUBE alum for drinks and hors d’oeuvres. #theCUBE Party @ #BigDataSV 2014 tops off three days of live …

There’s a new Home Brew Club for the data center | #OCPSummit

NEWS By KRISTEN NICOLE13 YEARS AGO

This has been dubbed the year of the cloud, and that represents a complete reengineering of the data center. SiliconANGLE founder and Editor in Chief John Furrier is leaving it to the alpha geeks to drive the innovation required to rethink the …

Kristen Nicole

Latest from Kristen Nicole

Smart home market needs partnerships to manage niche gadgets : The Staples + Zonoff story

Pricy WhatsApp goes to Facebook : Here’s 4 alternatives

LIVE chat today : Ask EMC President anything about the evolution from 2nd to 3rd infra platform | #AskBrianG

Real-time rules in Hadoop ecosystem : Splice Machine bags $15M, matures Big Data

Evolve or Die : Ask EMC President anything about the evolution from 2nd to 3rd infra platform | #AskBrianG

Can data management be as easy as Facebook? Alpine Data Labs thinks so | #BigDataSV

Smart home startup advice : User interface design trends

Going to Strata? … Party with theCUBE @ #BigDataSV!

There’s a new Home Brew Club for the data center | #OCPSummit

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