John Furrier

John Furrier is founder, co-CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of SiliconANGLE, a new media company covering the intersection of computer science and social science. Furrier is also the co-founder and CEO of CrowdChat a social media platform for large-scale group conversations over hashtags. In addition to SiliconANGLE John runs Broadband Developments a private incubator and investment firm for creating new startups. Furrier lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and four children.

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Marc Benioff Sees The Future – It’s Cloud Highlighted By The IPad

Marc Benioff sees the future and it’s the IPad powered by the cloud.  Marc is pushing all time hype into the IPad mainly because the IPad is nothing more than a lightning rod for this new distributed computing model called cloud.  He’s right about that for sure – I mean cloud. Is the future “the ...

Tim O’Reilly 2008 Interview on Internet Operating System

After reading the very good updated state of the internet operating system published by Tim O’Reilly yesterday I felt it was appropriate to share an older interview that I did with Tim. Here is a podcast that I did with Tim O’Reilly back in June 2008 – this was part of a series that I ...

Cisco Gets Antitrust Approvals for Pending Acquisition of TANDBERG – Promises Open Approach

Cisco got US Department of Justice (DOJ) and European Commision approval of their acquisition of Tandberg.  Today’s announcement is due to the fact that the US DOJ will not challenge the proposed acquisition in light of the commitments Cisco has made to the European Commission.  The transaction remains subject to ongoing regulatory review in Brazil; ...

New iPhone Versions Coming With Custom iPhone For Verizon

According to the Wall Street Journal today, Apple is planning on releasing a new iPhone this summer. In addition Apple is in secret developments with Verizon for a special built unit for only Verizon Wireless.  Just last month Verizon Wireless announced a custom deal with Skype and now it’s Apple.  We had our angle on ...

How the Internet Is Changing? Kill The Old Bring In The New

I was talking this morning to an entrepreneur about the new internet, web 2.0, and network trends specifically how online advertising is changing.  Ironically, SiliconAngle contributor Alex Calic posted a “deep angle” on this very topic on how data is changing advertising on the web. Then I saw a tweet from Louis Gray who pointed ...

Bradley Horowitz Interview By Dave McClure on What Google is Doing With Apps and Enterprise

Dave McClure who I really like with his recent push of investing and unearthing all internet related trends and startups has a great interview with Bradley Horowitz, VP Product in the enterprise and applications at Google. Bradley is one a rare talent both an entrepreneur and big company guy now at Google. Before Yahoo Bradley ...

Facebook Snags Another Googler: Ad Exec David Fischer

Our friend Kara Swisher has another great scoop over at AllThingsD: David Fischer–who was VP of Global Online Sales & Operations for Google and more recently was heading up its local efforts–is taking a job at Facebook as VP of Advertising and Global Operations, according to sources. Both Google (GOOG) and Facebook just sent out ...

Foursquare Close To Closing Venture Round – Case Study in Venture Capital

Mike Arrington is reporting that Foursquare is about to close a monster round of financing. Foursquare raised a seed round of just over $1 million from some great seed investors including Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Rose, Alex Rainert, Ron Conway, Joshua Schachter, Chad Stoller, Sergio Salvatore I’ve been hearing the ...

Cold Packet War!! – It’s Official China is a Virtual Rogue State

Yesterday, I wrote about Google’s historic move to shut down mainland China search engine and redirect all traffic to Hong Kong.  I liked the move by Google and predicted that they would be shut down. I wrote Google is making a great move here – in fact very historic.  However, they are still at risk ...

“Cold Packet War” – Google China Showdown – Shuts Down China Redirects Traffic To Hong Kong

Today, Google shut down it’s China web site -google.cn. In a bold move Google is shutting it’s search and redirecting all traffic to Hong Kong at Google.com.hk. This is after months of threatening to bolt from China because of the hacking incident to Google and other US corporations.  SiliconAngle’s Tom Foremski predicted this last week ...