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HP Earnings Shows CEO Whitman Turning Things Around
Hewlett-Packard announced earnings that is looking like the turnaround is happening. CEO Meg Whitman is pushing her plan forward. On Thursday, the company turned in increase in the quarterly earnings which shows investors that the company’s ship is turning in the right direction or at least back on track to solid fundamentals. This marks the ...
Breaking news: Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion
An SEC filing discovered on Facebook says that the social network is buying WhatsApp for $19 billion, which includes retention bonuses. Facebook’s press release is here. WhatsApp has built a leading and rapidly growing real-time mobile messaging service, with: . Over 450 million people using the service each month; 70 percent of those people active on ...
HP puts senior execs in Cloud group : Bethany Mayer in charge
According the leaked memo, Hewlett-Packard is reassigning Bethany Mayer, who was heading up HP Networking, to a new role as SVP/GM of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) (definition: Wikibon) a strategic portion of the new cloud initiative formally run by Saar Gillai now by Martin Fink (all three are Cube Alumni guests). I’ve interviewed Bethany many times – ...
Opinion: Twitter’s Just Did Smart Thing – Focus on User Experience Not Timeline Impressions #twtr
Yesterday, in Twitter’s historical first earnings call, I live tweeted @dickc Dick Costello comments. Of all his comments, my favorite was when he said “Twitter is global public, real-time, conversation, distributed, and unfiltered.” As a side note, I’m fairly certain that SiliconANGLE was the only outlet live tweeting Twitter’s earnings call. There is an management expression ...
CrowdChat: the crowd gives Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a thumbs up #techathlete
Microsoft had a moment of history appointing their third CEO, Satya Nadella. The crowd commentary was in full force and we captured it “on the record” via the new CrowdChat app which is in beta preview. In a flash mob #microsoft crowd chat held today from 9 am to 3 pm PST on CrowdChat.net/Microsoft, the ...
Breaking News: Satya Nadella named Microsoft CEO; Gates steps down as chairman, steps up to mentor insider CEO
Microsoft Corp. announced today that it has picked Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Also effective immediately, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will step down from their positions as Chairman of the Board and CEO respectively. Bill Gates is allocating a third of his time to ...
The crowd roared at #SB48 + the commercials list
Missed all the ads during the SuperBowl? Twitter put together a nice list of ads that can be viewed and voted on for favorites in something Twitter calls #adscrimmage. The notion of voting on the #hashtag? Very Crowdchat like. During the SuperBowl the crowd roared more than 24.9 million times on Twitter. These were tweets ...
BREAKING NEWS: Google SVP of Chrome & Apps Sundar Pichai now front runner for Microsoft CEO job
{Update Feb 4th, 2014: Microsoft has selected Satya Nadella as CEO; Bill Gates steps down as Chairman; Steve Ballmer relinquishes post as CEO.} BREAKING: SiliconANGLE has confirmed that Sundar Pichai is the top choice for the CEO position of Microsoft according to sources close to the hiring team. According to sources, negotiations are in full ...
Apple’s Q1 results: record 51M iPhones sold, dividend approved
Apple posted their first quarter results: iPhone sales hit a new record high for any single quarter. The company sold 51 million iPhones, compared to 47.8 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 26 million iPads during the quarter, another all-time quarterly record, compared to 22.9 million in the year-ago quarter. The company also sold ...
Microsoft earnings blow everyone away; press angry because Ballmer was right
Microsoft has no CEO and they are killing it in business performance. Looks like Steve Ballmer was right: the company isn’t in bad shape. Maybe it was the dumb press that called for his head. Steve had a smile on his face today as Microsoft Corp. announced revenue of $24.52 billion for the quarter ending ...
