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John Furrier on Venture Capital: Menlo Ventures $20 million dollar fund
Menlo Ventures Launches $20 Million Early Stage/Talent Fund Shervin Pershevar announced on stage at the AOL TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference that he and Menlo Ventures has started a $20 million fund. The fund will be called the Menlo Talent Fund. Shervin and his team at Menlo Ventures will invest $200,000 in early stage startups. According ...
The Lessons of the iPad and the TouchPad
So HP today discovered what happens when you make an affordable tablet: you sell out. This is exactly what I preached about the iPad back when it was still a rumor waiting to happen in my negative-leaning editorial: while many pundits were preaching that the gargantuan costs of a single iPad were a “non-life changing ...
Is VCE a Flailing Startup? A Study of Snark in New Media
The UK Register’s Chris Mellor wrote a short hit piece last week on VCE’s Vblock, entitled “Vblocks bleed out EMC money, VCE = virtual cash erosion.” True to Register form, the cleverest thing about the entire post is the title, but as both Wikibon analysts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman noted this week, not only ...
Dell and Cloudera: A Serious Validation Point for Hadoop – It’s Not a Science Experiment Anymore
Big news in the world of big data today: Dell and Cloudera made a joint announcement this morning that they’ll be partnering up to create an all-in-one solution for the deployment and support of Apache Hadoop for enterprise environments. We covered this earlier today on ServicesAngle. Here’s my take on it. This is Big News ...
Mobile Ad Network InMobi Manufacturing Momentum
[Disclosure: Millennial Media is a sponsor of the SiliconANGLE network, where I am Editor-In-Chief. Millennial Media did not sponsor this post, nor did they contribute to the information in this post in any way. –mrh] Techcrunch’s Robin Wauters today wrote up a press release from mobile ad network InMobi talking about a new hire at the ...
EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci to Step Down; Gelsinger or Goulden to Succeed
In news that came as a bit of a surprise for those who closely follow EMC’s Joe Tucci, news is making the rounds the last couple of weeks in the pages of Bloomberg and the EE|Times that the CEO is stepping down some time next year. Speaking at a conference in New York last month, ...
The Infamous Josh Harris Attempts Yet Another Entrepreneurial Comeback
Some time back, I reviewed Ondi Timoner’s epic documentary of the rise and fall of Josh Harris entitled We Live in Public. In much the same way that Pirates of Silicon Valley or Hackers should be required viewing for any self-respecting nerd, anyone who considers themselves a survivor of the Dot Com Bust should be ...
MySpace’s Tom Anderson Comments on G+
The days when Tom Anderson, the iconic first friend on everyone’s MySpace account, was active on his own service have long past. Most of Tom’s old co-workers have headed over to Facebook, but Tom himself seems to enjoy what Google+ is doing for the Google ecosystem. Earlier today, he took the time to post a somewhat ...
Dell Streak Goes On Sale in China
I had an opportunity to play with the Dell Streaks recently at the Dell Storage Forum event SiliconANGLE live broadcast from earlier this summer. Very responsive interface as compared to many other Android devices in that price range. Dell will release the Streak 10 Pro tablet in the Chinese market later this Summer. the tablet ...
#theCube Summer Tour Continues with #DellSF11 and #HPDiscover
This week is one of the most busy news weeks we’ve ever expected, at least for the range of topics we tend to cover here at SiliconANGLE. Not only is most of #theCube team on the road covering HP Discover and Dell Storage Forum, this is also the week the news from Apple’s WWDC hits ...
