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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

Yahoo’s Tumblr Acquisition a “Foregone Conclusion”

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Yahoo’s bid to acquire the blogging service Tumblr could be wrapped up as early as this Monday, according to reports at the weekend. Whilst neither Yahoo or Tumblr have made any official announcement, the deal is reportedly a “foregone conclusion”, according to …

Transport Plots A Course For The Industrial Internet

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

The United States is a vast and expansive country that’s become utterly dependent on its transportation infrastructure, including its roads, its railways and its flight paths. Its transport networks can be thought of as the oil that keeps the engine – the …

Twitter “Hate Map” Outs Racists And Homophobes In The US

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Twitter’s long been one of the favourite sources of information for researchers studying people’s trends and perceptions, and for good reason – with millions of users spread across the world sending out billions of tweets every single day, there are few more …

Julian Assange Claims US Cyber Spying Threatens Latin America

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Julian Assange has come out with yet another verbal attack on the US, this time warning that Latin American nations are at risk of losing their sovereignty due to their dependence on American telecommunications technologies and companies. The WikiLeaks founder issued his …

Yahoo Stays “Cool” On Tumblr Acquisition

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Yahoo’s biggest problem as it tries to reinvent itself into an entity capable of challenging Google and Facebook is that it simply isn’t a ‘cool’ brand anymore. Hence, the majority of its users are a bunch of old farts, as its chief …

How To Protect Your Yahoo Mail Against Hackers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Almost three weeks after we first reported on Yahoo’s inability to protect its customers from being hacked, it seems that the email provider is no closer to coming up with an effective solution – or even admitting that it has a problem …

Facebook Hacked Again: Only This Time, Anyone Can Do It

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

You might think that hacking Facebook accounts is something that only those with advanced technical skills would be able to do. After all, isn’t Facebook supposed to have all kinds of sophisticated security systems in place to protect user’s accounts? Yep, it …

Google’s Auto-Complete Just Ain’t Funny Anymore

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

It might come in handy for shaving precious seconds off the time it takes to type out our search queries, but Google’s auto-complete algorithm is proving to be pretty contentious from a legal point of view. Earlier this week, a German court …

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