Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Facebook Owes You Nothing
Richard McManus and Robert Scoble have been poking around at the edges of this most recent Facebook privacy scandal. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the whole thing in a sentence: If you used Facebook in 2010 or earlier, you may have used your profile wall as a way to message your ...
VMworld 2012 Starts Next Week! [schedule]
As Kristen noted this morning, VMworld is nearly upon us, and we on #theCube team have made our final preparations, renders, notes, and most importantly, schedules for our third year of coverage at the event. We have a stellar lineup of guests this year, and the line-up is filled to the rafters with superstars. We ...
Big Data: The Good, Bad and Ugly
It isn’t often that a confluence of news stories leads to an editorial epiphany, as it has this week. Good epiphanies are hard to find; I’m lucky if I get one or two a year. This week, as most weeks go, gave us a heaping helping of stories on Big Data (after all, I’ve just ...
Instagram is Facebook’s $1b Bribe to Valley VCs
Look, I’ve always derided pundits in the past for being trigger-happy on the “we’re in a bubble” talk, but when you objectively look at the tech sector today and two major acquisitions making headlines, you have to be blind not to notice that everyone’s drinking the same Kool-Aid. We had a major debate about the ...
Siri’s Closest Competition May Come from Detroit, Not Redmond
I make no secret of the fact that I’m a fan of AI and robotics on this blog. I have only a few dozen feeds in my collection, though, that are totally devoted to the topic of AI, semantics and robotics, unfortunately, because there are very few folks out there that totally throw themselves into ...
Automattic Finally Monetizes (Seven Years Too Late)
Earlier today at John Battelle’s Web 2.0 Summit, Federated Media and Automattic issued a joint announcement that they were now able to offer publishers on WordPress.com’s free blogging service the ability to run advertising on their blogs. This is a break in tradition for Federated Media, since as an organization, they’ve never wanted to even ...
Steve Jobs, the Cloud, and Amazing Dedication to Vision
So, as you have already heard by now, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died. I spent the evening with John Furrier and Kien Tran after closing out #theCube’s last broadcast day at Oracle OpenWorld this week and listened to the many stories about Jobs and Apple two avid fans had to tell. I came back ...
Bethany Mayer Named SVP and GM of HP Networking Business
Earlier today, Hewlett-Packard named Bethany Mayer senior vice president and general manager of its networking business as the technology company continued to shuffle its management. Last month, HP fired Leo Apotheker after 11 months as its chief executive and appointed former eBay Inc. (EBAY) chief Meg Whitman in his place. More than 10 executive vice ...
#TheCUBE at Oracle OpenWorld 2011
SiliconANGLE presents #TheCube, broadcasting live from Oracle OpenWorld at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. Join us for in-depth analysis brought to you by the SiliconANGLE/Wikibon team. Full coverage will air from 10:30AM PT – 4PM PT – Monday through Wednesday (October 3 – 5). Where to watch: LIVE broadcast on SiliconANGLE.tv (replays of all videos will be made available on ...
John Furrier on Venture Capital: Freestyle Capital Closes Early Stage $27 million dollar venture fund
Freestyle Capital Exploding on The Scene Closes $27m Fund, More Exits Coming Two respected tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel officially announced their early-stage VC firm Freestyle Capital. Although Dan Primack of Fortune Term Sheet blog reported that Freestyle’s fund been public for sometime, it appears the Freestyle team wanted to announce exclusively at ...
