Kristen Nicole
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I have a friend that’s always on the lookout for a new job. She’s become a professional at resumes. What’s she after? The job of her life, much like a mission to find love. And as I observe her ever-evolving quest from …
Google+ is a Religious Experience: Guy Kawasaki’s New Book Goes to Print
By Saroj Kar and Kristen Nicole If you haven’t joined Google+, it’s time to get started. Guy Kawasaki has launched his latest eBook – What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us, in which he compares the new social network to …
The Trilogy for Discovering the Next Big Thing: Q&A with Delphix CEO Jed Yueh
Virtualization has been a hot button lately, a topic we all but ran into the ground during VMworld last week. The annual event, hosted by virtualization company VMware, focused on the “right here and now” of virtualized services, another instance of the …
Evernote and 1DollarScan Bring E-Reading to the Personal Cloud
Digital scanning service, 1DollarScan, announced their full integration with Evernote, the service that lets users save and remember everything. The integration makes 1DollarScan the first of its kind to have full integration with a major web brand, and both companies can benefit …
Getting Ready for VMworld 2012
Things are getting busy in the SiliconAngle newsroom as we gear up for VMworld next week (August 27-30), one of the biggest events we cover annually. There’s building expectations around VMworld 2012, as EMC and VMware combine forces for a flash-focused storage …
Data as the Common Language: CEO Series with MuleSoft’s Greg Schott
The world has seen a huge shift in the way software is created and utilized. No longer does a company need an in-house team devoted to building software–an entire industry has emerged around SaaS, offering turnkey solutions that address a growing pool …
Springpad and Snooth Make Fine Foodie Pairings
The beauty of curation is the context that builds around your collections, and it’s a social development made popular by the likes of Pinterest, Evernote and to some extent Facebook. One company was built with contextualized curation in mind is Springpad, launching …
Cloud’s Biggest Impact on Mobile? SOASTA CEO Shares His Vision
It’s easy to overlook the things that run in the background, like the backstage crew pulling strings and flashing lights that make experiencing a stage performance worthwhile. But those back-running systems are a necessity even in the Internet era, where readiness can …
How Can Pinterest, the Fastest-Growing Site Ever, Become a Data-Driven Business?
Pinterest is the new phenomenon of the Web. Statistics show that Pinterest generates four times more revenue per click than Twitter, and increases revenue by 27 percent more per click than Facebook. Undoubtedly, the success of Pinterest may be due to fact …
Tapping the 1 Percent of Twitter Data: FirstRain CEO Penny Herscher Gets It
There is such a thing as the global intelligence stream, and it’s empowering consumers as much as it’s providing valuable data sets to marketers and corporations. It’s a new kind of give-and-take that’s blossoming around consumer-corporate interactions, but it’s probably the first …