Page 6748 – SiliconANGLE

Startup Police Blotter: Betaworks Steals Digg for $500k – Digg Sells for Pennies on the Dollar

By John Furrier Jul 12, 2012

Betaworks should be on today’s police blotter under Grand Theft Startup. Wall Street Journal is reporting that the New York based incubator Betaworks has agreed to buy news-sharing website Digg in what is looking…

Twilio Changes the SMS Game

By Harmony Tapper Jul 12, 2012

Today Twilio announces their new Global SMS service now available to customers which has been the one feature that is most requested. Yesterday Twilio was only able to operate on a few dozen carriers,…

Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners calls NASDAQ & Morgan Stanley Criminals in Facebook IPO Debacle

By John Furrier Jul 12, 2012

Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners, appeared on Bloomberg TV’s “Money Moves” with Deirdre Bolton today and said that NASDAQ and Morgan Stanley conduct in Facebook IPO is “criminal” and exposed “extreme corruption.” Besides…

Cloudability Raises $8.7M To Put a Price Tag on Cloud Agility

By Matt Weinberger Jul 12, 2012

Cloudability, which helps customers track public cloud costs across service providers, has announced the close of an $8.7 million round of Series A funding, led by the Foundry Group. Other participants in this round include 500…

New Alliance in Big Data: Pentaho et al. Builds Out Analytics

By Maria Deutscher Jul 12, 2012

Three emerging names in the big data space announced an alliance this week that will combine their respective software and services to create a new solution for analyzing customer data. These three companies are…

Storage Startups Growing Fast Providing Gear for Cloud – Coraid and Nimble Standout

By John Furrier Jul 12, 2012

Want to find out about the future? Just meet the startups because they are inventing it right in front of our eyes. That is exactly what happend in the fast moving storage industry yesterday…

Join the Big Data Listening Party: Echo Nest Gets $17.3M Funding

By Mellisa Tolentino Jul 12, 2012

Echo Nest, the music intelligence platform, announced the closing of a $17.3 million financing round led by Norwest Venture Partners with the participation of prior investors Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Fringe Partners, Jim…

Best Buy Warns Users of Account Hacking Attempts, Advises Password Reset

By Isha Suri Jul 12, 2012

Looks like the retail giant Best Buy has detected some malicious attempts to access its customer accounts, which is why it has issued a warning to its customers advising them to change their account…

Dropped USB Sticks as a Malware Vector: DSM Does Cybersecurity Right

By Kyt Dotson Jul 12, 2012

The reason that some malware is called a Trojan is a play on the Trojan horse from the mythology about the ancient Greek siege of the city of Troy. Most Trojans are actually software…

Epic DirecTV Battle Continues, Now on the Internet

By Harmony Tapper Jul 12, 2012

In the ongoing epic battle between DirecTV and Viacom, it would appear that there is no limit to how far either side will go to prove their point while making the other side look…

all stories

Startup Police Blotter: Betaworks Steals Digg for $500k – Digg Sells for Pennies on the Dollar

Twilio Changes the SMS Game

Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners calls NASDAQ & Morgan Stanley Criminals in Facebook IPO Debacle

New Alliance in Big Data: Pentaho et al. Builds Out Analytics

Storage Startups Growing Fast Providing Gear for Cloud – Coraid and Nimble Standout

Best Buy Warns Users of Account Hacking Attempts, Advises Password Reset

Dropped USB Sticks as a Malware Vector: DSM Does Cybersecurity Right

Epic DirecTV Battle Continues, Now on the Internet

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

IBM's AI Operating Model 2026

Dell Technologies New York Symposium 2026

SEMICON West 2026

AI Data Pipeline Forum 2026

Infor Velocity Week 2026

Dell AI Data Platform Event: From Ambition to AI at Scale 2026

SIGN IN

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry