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Dear Mark Zuckerberg Open Letter Slam By Young and Up & Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell
Dalton Caldwell @DaltonC is the founder of App.net, a social platform that is pivoting after Facebook offered to buy it or kill it. Dalton is the creator of imeem, a social music site that was acquired by MySpace. I first met Dalton seven years ago when he was one of my first guys that I did ...
Breaking Analysis: Google Acquires Wildfire – Who Says Social Media Bubble is Popping
Google announced that it is acquiring Wildfire a social media infrastructure provider. Google’s product manager Jason Miller says that social presence can complement all marketing campaigns—search, display, video, mobile, offline ads and more. Note: Conversation on @techmeme is taking place. Here is my Breaking Analysis. Google taking Wildfire off the table is a strategic move ...
Breaking Analysis: Tintri Bags $25 Million in Fresh Financing To Get Into Virtual Storage Fray
Storage startup Tintri just bagged another round of financing – $25 million round of fresh financing to expand it’s network attached storage appliance for virtualized environments. Tintri a was funded by Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and General Partners Pete Sonsini. The new round was led by Menlo Ventures and Lightspeed Partners. The ...
Breaking: Analysis: VMware Buys Nicira For $1.26B in Cash
Big news in what SiliconANGLE has been calling the biggest disruption in generations – Converged Infrastructure. VMware is buying privately held Nicira Inc for about $1.26B in cash to expand its network virtualization portfolio. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2012. VMware just recently announced that Pat Gelsinger will ...
DeveloperANGLE: AllThingsHadoop Podcast with Cube Alum Arun Murthy on Hadoop
The allthingshadoop blog had a great podcast and blog post with Hortonworks cofounder Arun Murthy, a SiliconANGLE.tv Cube Alum. Here is the podcast: Episode #8 of the Podcast is a talk with Arun C. Murthy. Main areas they talked about — Hortonworks HDP1, the first release from Hortonworks, Apache Hadoop 2.0,NextGen MapReduce (YARN) and HDFS Federations. Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) ...
Industry Analysts Got It Wrong on VMware CEO Transition From Paul Maritz to Pat Gelsinger
I’ve been covering and watching the (mostly negative) commentary over the last couple of days about the change in leadership at VMware from other blogs and specifically the analyst sector. I really have to wonder, who are these so called experts? Do they even understand the markets and companies that they report on? SiliconANGLE’s team has ...
Paul Maritz Out as CEO – Pat Gelsinger in CEO of VMware – Video: What Pat Gelsinger Would Do At VMware
Update: Here is what I’ve confirmed so far: 1) Maritz was not ousted as CEO and this was his decision according to sources close to Maritz, and 2) Maritz will not be the CEO of any spin out. The story is now breaking that Paul Maritz is stepping down as CEO of VMware and Pat ...
Developers: The Hubris of Front End Developers
I ran into a good post that was talking about the hottest trend in tech developer world. Wooing front end developers. The post I am referring to was written by Allan Cheung a front end developer at Square. A colleague pointed me to an interesting article by a senior Yahoo front-end engineer. It goes through what companies ...
Startup Police Blotter: Betaworks Steals Digg for $500k – Digg Sells for Pennies on the Dollar
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 like a yard sale for $500,000. Here is what the WSJ reported: Under the deal, which Digg confirmed closed Thursday, Betaworks ...
Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners calls NASDAQ & Morgan Stanley Criminals in Facebook IPO Debacle
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 the smashing the Facebook IPO Roger actually has some great advice. Specifically, Mobile computing is changing the web in a big ...
