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

Official Skype Statement: We Did Not Block Fring – Fring Crashed On Their Own

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

I have been digging on this Skype thing with Fring. Apparently, Techcrunch is reporting that Skype blocked them and Fring has put out a release saying they were blocked by Skype. In checking around and now Skype officially responds and says that …

Big Data Clouds Are Here – EMC Acquires Greenplum A Move To Counter Oracle

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world’s leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of "big data" …

Skype Massive Expansion In Silicon Valley – Plans to Build Out More Innovation

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

Skype CEO Josh Silverman announces today in a blog post that Skype is coming to Silicon Valley. My town of Palo Alto will be their location of their new Silicon Valley office. According to Skype, the operations will be in Palo Alto …

HP Palm Analysis: HP Finalized Palm Acqusition – It’s All About SmartPhones and Edge Devices

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

Today, HP today announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash. Back in March SiliconAngle was the first to accurately report that HP would be buying Palm. We …

Foursquare Kisses All The Frogs And The Rise of Andreeseen Horowitz – A Venture Story

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

Foursquare just announced that they have secured $20 million in additional financing at a $95 million valuation, with Silicon Valley’s Andreessen Horowitz leading the new investment. Also stepping up in the round is previous investors Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. …

The New Service Providers Are Corporate Enterprises – Cloudera Goes Commercial For Enterprises

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

Hello Enterprise 2.0 World!! Mark the calendar – today the enterprise is moving to be the next service provider for consumers – the business user or worker. The biggest and fastest growing trend we are monitoring here on SiliconANGLE is the new …

Datacenters Are Cloudy – A New Network Infrastructure Model

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

The fundamental nature of data center computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data center agility and increasing the operational budgets and killing budgets required to change and grow. It’s …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

Official Skype Statement: We Did Not Block Fring – Fring Crashed On Their Own

HP Palm Analysis: HP Finalized Palm Acqusition – It’s All About SmartPhones and Edge Devices

Datacenters Are Cloudy – A New Network Infrastructure Model

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