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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

Talkdesk nabs $15M to spin up cloud-based call centers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

The telephone might be rather old as far as technology standards go, but there’s no doubt it’s still one of our favorite ways to communicate with companies, especially when we require a fast response. Which might explain when San Francisco-based Talkdesk Inc. …

Facebook kicks satellite plans into touch

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Facebook has reportedly given up on a project to launch an Internet-delivering satellite into orbit, according to a report in The Information. Amir Efrati writes that the previously unknown project (outside of Facebook) would have set the social media giant back a …

Apple makes a Swift shift to open-source

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple is open-sourcing its Swift programming language in a bid to make it more pervasive. The Swift language’s compiler and iOS, OS X and Linux libraries will be made available under an open-source license by the end of the year, said Craig …

Teradata adopts Presto for Hadoop SQL queries

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics firm Teradata Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind the open-source Presto project, which provides an SQL query engine for interactive queries. This could be a very big deal. Presto was, like so many open-source projects, born as an …

Microsoft opens first Transparency Center in Europe

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has opened the doors to a new “Transparency Center” in Brussels, allowing European governments to review the source code of its software to ensure it doesn’t contain any “backdoors” that might allow U.S. intelligence agencies to snoop on their data. The center, …

Cockroach Labs gets $6.25M to build a more resilient database

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Cockroach Labs, the startup behind the funky-sounding CockroachDB database, last week announced its first round of funding, a series A totaling $6.25 million. The round was led by Benchmark, whose lead investor Peter Fenton joins the board of Cockroach Labs as part …

BlueData adds support for Hadoop on Docker containers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data infrastructure firm BlueData Software Inc. has said it’s adding support for Docker containers on its BlueData EPIC platform. The move means that organizations will be able to deploy popular Big Data tools like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark quickly and …

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