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What Is A Rock Star Founder? Simple Answer: Keep Control After VC Series A
Paul Graham just posted one of his articles called “Founder Control”. I was eager to write this post, because as I have said before, the real rock star founders are the ones that can keep control of their company after their VC Series A. T he hall of fame founders are the ones that can ...
Mobile Advertising Booming – Google Apple & Millennial Media Top 3
I read an article from BusinessInsider by Dan Frommer today around the top mobile advertising platforms. We’ve been covering this sector over over a year and a half, years and in that time we have seen AdMob get bought by Google and Millennial rise to the top of the independent list. It’s a growing and ...
Chrome OS Coming Tomorrow? I Predicted It Two Years Ago
Google has a big announcement regarding Chrome planned for tomorrow, and SiliconANGLE will be there taking tons of photos and covering the action. I wrote a post two years ago when Chrome was launched. If my predictions come true, this will be a move toward a full on Chrome OS for netbooks and tablets. Google ...
VCE – VMware Cisco EMC Joint Venture Showing Traction With Customer Win
The joint venture Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition between VMware, Cisco, and EMC is showing some traction. Yesterday, Cisco announced today that NBN Co, the company set up by the federal government to design, build and operate Australia’s wholesale-only, high speed broadband network, has selected Cisco to lead the implementation of its data centre infrastructure. ...
NetApp Gaining Share Despite Hacker Stock Drop Scare Yesterday – Business is Good For NTAP
Yesterday, NetApp’s stock took a nose dive due to a reported unauthorized access to the earnings data. It was speculated by me that a hacker might have got the data. I still think something is up with that because there was certainly some buying going on with NetApp stock. As of today the stock is ...
SAP VMware Cisco EMC (VCE) – Vblock SAP Excellence Center Lab Day in Silicon Valley
I will be visiting the SAP Customer Excellence Center in Silicon Valley to followup on the work that VMware, Cisco, and EMC are doing with their joint venture VCE or VCE Coalition (previously known as Acadia). I’ll be talking to executives and customers who are pushing the envelope in this new world of cloud and ...
Did Hacker Get NetApp Earnings Early? NetApp Earnings Mistake Causes Stock To Plummet on Unauthorized Access
NetApp stock was suspended on the Nasdaq after the earnings were released early by some unauthorized access. Normally companies release after the bell, but in NetApp’s case it was suspect because it was released early. It looks like a hacker might have accessed the companies web site to get the numbers early. If this is ...
$2 Billion Later, EMC Buys Isilon.
EMC is buying Isilon to continue it’s position as #1 in storage virtualization. Under terms of the agreement, EMC will pay $33.85 per share in cash in exchange for each share of Isilon for an aggregate purchase price of about $2.25 billion, net of Isilon’s existing cash balance. The boards of directors of both EMC ...
Avaya Goes With QLogic – Convergence Leader QLogic Continues String of Design Wins
QLogic, a leader in the new converged data center, is on a roll with performance leadership ,and now with more design wins. Today, QLogic is announcing a deal with Avaya to team up with the new converged switch on a chip called the “Bullet”. The QLogic Bullet—a converged networking switch-on-a-chip, continues to shatter through competitive ...
Sex Lies and HP
Written By Adam Lashinsky, Editor Fortune Magazine There’s more to the story of Jodie Fisher, Mark Hurd, and now Gloria Allred’s role in the HP case, than has been reported. But it would probably take a legal action on the order of a shareholder lawsuit to find out what we don’t already know. In the ...
