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

Gmail gets tough on spam with ‘unsubscribe’ button

Unsubscribing from spam marketing emails can be a pain in the ass – no two ways about it. Although the more professionals email marketers often place an “unsubscribe” link buried somewhere in the small print at the end of their advertising spiel, this is often difficult to find. And of course, there’s the millions of ...

LinkedIn goes where no social network has gone before… To China

The likes of Facebook, Google and Twitter have famously struggled to gain a foothold in China, the world’s largest internet market, but there is one US social media network with a presence in that country. And now, it’s presence is set to get that much bigger with the launch of a beta version. LinkedIn, the ...

Tizen: Samsung’s secret weapon now unleashed

Samsung has just launched the Galaxy Gear 2, it’s second take on a so-called smartwatch that, to be honest, wasn’t particularly great the first time round. But Samsung doesn’t really care about that, because the Galaxy Gear 2 has been designed with a hidden agenda – the device is actually the testing ground for a ...

Mt. Gox’s Mark Karpeles resigns from the Bitcoin Foundation

Mt. Gox’s CEO Mark Karpeles has announced his resignation from the Bitcoin Foundation, in what some might interpret as yet another sign of the growing friction between the troubled Bitcoin exchange and the rest of the cryptocurrency community. Karpeles’ resignation was announced on the Bitcoin Foundation blog, and the story was first picked up by ...

Mt. Gox at Death’s Door? Bitcoin price slips below $100, before rebounding slightly

The problems continue to pile up for the beleaguered Mt. Gox, where the price of a single Bitcoin briefly plummeted to below $100 after the exchange claimed that “security issues” were the reason it’s unable to resume withdrawal capability to its customers as planned, reports CoinDesk. Mt. Gox posted a note on its website, stating ...

Nokia considers major acquistion of Juniper Networks

Nokia might have sold off its handset business to Microsoft, but the Finnish firm is still in business and now – flush with cash – is rumored to be considering the acquisition of network gear maker Juniper Networks in order to merge it with its Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) division, according to German website Manager ...

Google launches visual maps to help save the world’s trees

For all of its faults there’s no denying that Google likes to give a little bit back now and again, particularly in the form of humanitarian work. Now, it’s just begun a new effort to help us all keep an unflinching eye on the rampant deforestation in the world. Google has just launched a new ...

Glow wants your boss to help you get pregnant

Glow, the data science app that aims to help women get pregnant, has just gone and launched a new offering aimed at employers. Yes, that’s right, Glow thinks employers might want to help their workers have more babies, and to do so its come up with “Glow for Enterprise”, a program that aims to help ...

Microsoft Office is now ‘Online’

Just 24 hours after launching OneDrive as a replacement for SkyDrive, Microsoft has announced a major rebranding of its cloud-based productivity tools line up. Say hello to Office Online, Microsoft’s reinvented Office Web Apps, which has been redesigned so its easier to find, and comes with a bunch of new features to boot. The biggest ...

WhatsApp will open the door to Facebook’s next wave of expansion

So Facebook has just shelled out a jaw-dropping $19 billion on WhatsApp, a seemingly insane price when you think another popular messaging app called Viber was acquired for a ‘measly’ $900 millin by Japan’s Rakuten just one week ago. For sure, $19 billion is a massive amount of cash, but when you think about the ...