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Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile.

Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach.

Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Facebook Redirect Error Takes Out Half Of The Internet

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

You probably didn’t notice it, but for a short period yesterday afternoon Facebook took out the entire internet. A temporary glitch caused anyone who tried to visit a third party website integrated with the social media site to be redirected back to …

Apple Shareholders Demand More Money As Stock Woes Pile Up

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Apple came under attack yesterday from one of its biggest shareholders over the $137 billion cash pile it’s accumulated over the last few years, in yet another sign of growing investor unrest over the company’s poor performance in recent months, reports the …

Intel Gets Inside SDN With Big Switch Networks

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Big Switch Networks, an early player in software-defined networking (SDN) that came out of stealth last year, has just received a $20 million cash infusion from Intel Capital in its latest venture capital funding round. This means that the world’s biggest chip …

DARPA Backs Python Big Data Projects With $3M Cash

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Texas-based startup Continuum Analytics has just received a $3 million cash injection courtesy of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to help it further its progress with using the Python programming language as a means of crunching Big Data. The cash …

Microsoft Slates Google Over Gmail Privacy

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has just launched a new salvo in its eternal struggle with Google, this time singling out its Gmail service for attack in a stinging new video commercial. We’ve seen these kinds of attacks before with Microsoft’s “Scroogled” advertising campaign, and once …

EU Plans To “Force” Companies To Report Cyberattacks

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Banks, hospitals, energy providers, cloud computing firms and others will all be forced to report any instance of a cyberattack, if a proposed new European law comes into play. According to an article in Techcrunch, the move would require all companies involved …

Kaspersky’s Antivirus Update Gone Wrong

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Kaspersky Labs has hit upon a novel way of keeping its users’ computers free of viruses and malware, simply by preventing them from being able to connect to the web at all. Millions of Kaspersky antivirus users were left bemused at being …

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