John Furrier

John Furrier is founder, co-CEO, of SiliconANGLE Media consisiting of SiliconANGLE.com. theCUBE.net, theCUBEresearch.com, and our AI Video Media Cloud. The combination of all these brands creates a new media company covering the intersection of computer science and social science. Furrier's vision is of a future that uses technology and data to create quality content and user experiences while creating and growing quality communities.

Simply put: To extract the signal from the noise! Our motto: we cover everything "where Computer Science meets Social Science". Furrier lives in Palo Alto, California.

Latest from John Furrier

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

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

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 in Silicon Valley. I had a chance to …

NoSQL Database Religion: Comparing Riak to Others

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Comparing database approaches is a religious thing so I have been looking at the different uses cases and solutions available. I’ll be reporting more on them here over the next few months. In the meantime I found a great post by the …

Social Network for Developers – GitHub Raises Monster Series A Round Funding $100m

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

GitHub, a site that was built by and for coders, has finally broken down and took their first round of venture financing. The total raised for GitHub was $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz. This investment is the largest to data for the …

Video Program: Impact of Big Data – Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore Keynote & Interview

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Geoffrey Moore of Mohr Davidow Ventures and author of many books including Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, and Inside the Fault Line, delivered the keynote at the Hadoop Summit 2012. Hadoop is the main platform for big data and Hortonworks was …

Google is Definitely in the Big Data Business and Will Be Big

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

At Google IO developer conference in San Francisco last month, Google introduced a slew of new products including Google Compute Engine. What wasn’t talked was Google’s big data play. Google is definitely in the Big Data business and Google will be the 800lb gorilla in …

News Analysis: Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Ray Wang at Consellation Research shares his analysis on the Oracle vs UsedSoft. The surprise July 3rd, 2012 judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union for UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp rules that “An author of software cannot …

What is Higgs Boson? A Breakthrough in Physics and Science – The Physics Nerd Holy Grail Found

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

In the science and physics world “The Holy Grail” was found today July 4th. The Higgs Boson The science world is a buzz over the discovery from CERN, Europe’s main particle-physics lab, of what is called the “missing piece” or element of the Standard …

Apple iPad Mini Coming Soon – Apple #Winning Against the Awesome Android Nexus 7 Tablet

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is planning on putting out a smaller iPad called the iPad Mini that will compete with the new Nexus Tablet 7 inch tablet. Which has been getting great reviews (see review here). The new iPad Mini …

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Latest from John Furrier

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

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

NoSQL Database Religion: Comparing Riak to Others

Social Network for Developers – GitHub Raises Monster Series A Round Funding $100m

Video Program: Impact of Big Data – Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore Keynote & Interview

Google is Definitely in the Big Data Business and Will Be Big

News Analysis: Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors

What is Higgs Boson? A Breakthrough in Physics and Science – The Physics Nerd Holy Grail Found

Apple iPad Mini Coming Soon – Apple #Winning Against the Awesome Android Nexus 7 Tablet

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