Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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.

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Yandex Surpasses Bing In Search Engine Wars

By Mike Wheatley Feb 11, 2013

Bing just got bitch-slapped. Despite Microsoft’s very best efforts in attempting to claw back Google’s overwhelming lead in web search, stepping up its “Scroogled” campaign and integrating Bing apps with its new Office platform,…

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RIOT: The Big Data Social Tracking Tool From Hell

By Mike Wheatley Feb 11, 2013

Another day, another surveillance tool that falls into our laps. Only this one seems to be getting a few more pairs of knickers in a twist than usual, because not only can it track…

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Egypt Plans To Dump Microsoft & Go All-Out With Open-Source

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2013

One of the problems with Microsoft is that, while most experts agree it offers the best suite of business tools and the most dependable operating system around, its gear isn’t exactly what you’d call…

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George Gets Bush-Hacked: Nude Self-Portraits + Family Secrets Exposed

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2013

A number of email accounts belonging to former US President George W. Bush and several of his family members and close friends have been hacked, with a huge amount of sensitive information and private…

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Facebook Redirect Error Takes Out Half Of The Internet

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2013

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…

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Apple Shareholders Demand More Money As Stock Woes Pile Up

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2013

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…

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Intel Gets Inside SDN With Big Switch Networks

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2013

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…

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DARPA Backs Python Big Data Projects With $3M Cash

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2013

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…

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Death Star Strikes Back! Project Revived on Kickstarter

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2013

Remember how disappointed we all were to learn that the proposed Death Star project had been denied funding by the White House? Well, the idea has just been given a new breath of life,…

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Microsoft Slates Google Over Gmail Privacy

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2013

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…

Mike Wheatley

Yandex Surpasses Bing In Search Engine Wars

Egypt Plans To Dump Microsoft & Go All-Out With Open-Source

George Gets Bush-Hacked: Nude Self-Portraits + Family Secrets Exposed

Facebook Redirect Error Takes Out Half Of The Internet

Apple Shareholders Demand More Money As Stock Woes Pile Up

Intel Gets Inside SDN With Big Switch Networks

DARPA Backs Python Big Data Projects With $3M Cash

Death Star Strikes Back! Project Revived on Kickstarter

Microsoft Slates Google Over Gmail Privacy

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