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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Changes in the Datacenter and Cloud – NewScale Allows Pioneers in Cloud to Work with IT

NewScale, a company that develops cloud services solutions, just last week announced record financial and customer results.  This week, NewScale is announcing the release of newScale 9, which enables IT organizations to provide to their customers a self-service ordering and lifecycle management for both desktop and data center services, across cloud, virtual and physical compute ...

Skype Has A Big Chance To Own The Social Web

I ran across this blog that had the story “Skype’s New Dawn” written by Jeremy Wagstaff a technology columnist, author and journalist, writing for The Wall Street Journal and the BBC.  What a great ‘angle’ on Skype. Jeremy writes: Pretty much everyone I know is on Skype—more so than Facebook—and their investment in it is ...

China Targets Bay Area Companies – Was Cisco Targeted? Did China Get The Goods on Cisco

As news about the China attacks continue to surface, numerous news reports confirm that Juniper was not attacked but instead just targeted.  The Wall Street Journal has a story that paints a different picture in China with respect to Google.  Here we have everyone weighing-in an attempt to “cloud the main issue “cyber-espionage”. This brings ...

HP Microsoft Poney Up $230 Million & Team Up To Drive Cloud Adoption

According to new reports Microsoft and HP are expanding their 25 year partnership. According to the briefing (which we were not part of) over the next three years, the two companies will invest $250 million to help customers and partners improve the customer experience for developing, deploying and managing today’s IT environments, and building next ...

War Against The West – Google China Situation

Here is a round up of some of the facts being reported around the web.  Obviously to me this is a war against the west. Google has gone above and beyond the call of duty to comply with the China marketplace requirements.  The China government is way out of bounds because its policies are too ...

Google Is Unstoppable – More Cloud More Web More Mobility – A Cloud Monopoly

Google is unstoppable.  The only thing that will stop Google is the government.  Google is innovating on so many fronts it’s unbelievable. Today, Google is announcing cloud storage on docs and spreadsheet. Google will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you’ll ...

#CES2010 RUMOR: AT&T and Microsoft Buying DIRECTV – Announcement at CES

According to an industry source AT&T along with support from Microsoft will announce at CES that they are buying DIRECTV.  I have not heard of an amount yet.  I am actively trying to confirm. Based upon a reliable industry source, AT&T will purchase DIRECTV with support from Microsoft.  Microsoft would be contributing money to secure ...

Google Phone Nexus One – A Pawn In The Mobile Chess Game

Google is introducing the Google gPhone or as the official names goes – The Google Nexus One.  Engadget has the definitive review while others are chiming in here, here, and here. Google is playing the open card by forcing fast innovation in a developer focused way – similar to what made Microsoft successful in the ...

Apple Tablet Coming – You Can Thank Not The iPhone But The iTouch And App Store

The Apple Tablet is coming. What is it you ask? It’s an oversized iTouch. It will be perfect for surfing the web in bed or on the couch. The Apple Tablet will be just perfect. Why? One reason: The Apple App Store. Apple has just released the massive number on the App Store -3 Billion ...

Confirmed: Apple To Buy Quattro Wireless

Last month Google bought AdMob for a whopping $750 million. Now information is swirling around about the Apple Tablet. How will Apple deal with publishers and advertisers? The answer according to multiple industry sources is to buy Quattro Wireless for this months big announcement in San Francisco. Apple is said to be buying Quattro for ...