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

Google’s Buying Waze For $1B To Spite Facebook & Apple

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

If you haven’t had the pleasure of using the navigation/traffic jam app Waze, you probably will do soon, one way or another. That’s because Google is said to be on the verge of buying the Israeli startup for a massive $1 billion+. …

NSA Spying Denials Prove That Google is Truly Evil

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Google has finally been exposed as the deceitful, two-faced entity it really is, and now it’s desperately trying to spin the revelations of the NSA’ s pervasive spying program to its advantage. The company that loves to portray itself as the defender …

Trust In Twitter: They Won’t Grass You Up To The NSA… Yet

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Looking at the list of nine US tech firms that are alleged to be participating in the NSA’s vast surveillance gathering program PRISM, there’s one notable omission – Twitter is not on the list. Actually, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that Twitter …

Lenovo Chief Targets Push in Servers, Storage and Smartphones

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

The world’s second biggest PC maker Lenovo is setting its sights on the server, storage and smartphone business as it looks to expand its horizons in the post-PC era. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Lenovo’s CEO Yang …

NSA Secretly Mining Data From Google, Apple, Facebook & Others

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

It’s worse than we thought. Just 24 hours after it first exposed how the NSA was secretly tapping phone call metadata from Verizon, The Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post have revealed the existence of a massive, warrantless government surveillance program known …

Smart TVs: Not So Clever When It Comes To Security

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Smart TVs have earned their name due to the superb functionality they offer, being able to browse the web, stream video content, sync with other devices, play games, and even hang out and chat on social media sites. But when it comes …

Yahoo To Acquire Foursquare? Here’s a Few Reasons Why It Might Happen

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Could Foursquare be the next acquisition on Yahoo’s shopping list? Maybe, maybe not, but All Things D’s Kara Swisher has just made an extremely convincing case that CEO Marissa Mayer is at least thinking about buying up the location-based social network. Now …

NSA’s Secret Verizon Data-Mining Operation Exposed

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Under highly classified orders from a secret court, Verizon has been passing on the phone call records of every single one of its customers to the US National Security Agency (NSA), UK newspaper The Guardian reported on Wednesday. Several weeks ago the …

Microsoft Shuts Down World’s “Most Aggressive Botnet”

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Working alongside the FBI, Microsoft has taken aim at one of the cyberworld’s most notorious botnets, which is said to have made its hacker controllers as much as half a billion dollars in the last 18 months. Microsoft’s operation focused on a …

FreedomPop’s “Free” Mobile Service: It Probably Isn’t That Good…

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Phone bills – Arrgh! Aren’t you just sick of them? If, like me, you are, then you might just be interested to hear about the new offer from FreedomPop, which offers “free” mobile broadband services in certain areas. Now, the little upstart …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

NSA Spying Denials Prove That Google is Truly Evil

Trust In Twitter: They Won’t Grass You Up To The NSA… Yet

Lenovo Chief Targets Push in Servers, Storage and Smartphones

NSA Secretly Mining Data From Google, Apple, Facebook & Others

Smart TVs: Not So Clever When It Comes To Security

Yahoo To Acquire Foursquare? Here’s a Few Reasons Why It Might Happen

NSA’s Secret Verizon Data-Mining Operation Exposed

Microsoft Shuts Down World’s “Most Aggressive Botnet”

FreedomPop’s “Free” Mobile Service: It Probably Isn’t That Good…

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