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Mellisa Tolentino

Mellisa Tolentino started at SiliconANGLE covering the mobile and social scene. Over the years, her scope expanded to Bitcoin as well as the Internet of Things. SiliconANGLE gave Mellisa her break in writing and it has been an adventure ever since. She’s from the sunny country of Philippines where people always greet you with the warmest smile. If she’s not busy writing, she loves reading, watching TV series and movies, but what she enjoys the most is playing or just chilling on the couch with with her three dogs Ceecee, Ginger, and Rocky.

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

$6M DataSift Funding to be Invested in Twitter

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Real-time information is the hottest thing in the market nowadays.  It can make or break you, especially if you use real-time data for business purposes.  So where do people get their real-time info?  Believe it or not, Twitter.  Yes, we already know …

Copyright Alerts: The Solution To End Piracy?

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Software, movies, music, applications, games… You name it, and you can find it on the web, oftentimes for free.  You’d think that in this day and age, big companies earn gazillions of dollars with their web and media products, but in reality …

QLogic: Soon to Announce Q1 Fiscal Year 2012

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Over the past few months, QLogic has been on a roll.  Though the company is mostly known for fibre and infrastructure, they turned heads when they came up with the convergence of cloud computing and communication.   But as the saying goes, ‘don’t …

LulzSec Legacy: Hackers Released 17k E-mails and Passwords

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Almost 17,000 e-mails and passwords were released by the Connexion Hack Team, which they stated to have acquired randomly.  The group did not release information indicating from which sites they obtained their list. Dear Internetz, We are the Connexion Hack Team. We are here to …

Business Has No Business on Google+

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

News broke earlier about the removal of non-user profiles (i.e. businesses, universities, NGO, teams, brands, organizations, etc.) in Google+ until a specialized service has been officially released. The company has asked businesses to hold off on creating consumer profiles for now, and …

eBay Goes Deep into Mobile Payments, Acquires Zong

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Currently, everyone is glued to their smartphones.  Not just to keep in touch with others, but also to do things like online shopping.  Most of us have either our credit/debit cards or PayPal to use for our online shopping, but there are …

HTC Goes Gaga for Graphics

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Can you still remember what it was like playing video games about 15-20 years ago?  Yeah, when pixelated characters were dominating your TV screen.  Today’s graphics have greatly evolved into characters that are so lifelike you’d have to sometimes ask if it’s …

Hack Attacks are Equal Opportunity Assaults

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Attacks from hackers seem to be progressing along the same lines as modern technology.  Over the past few months, more companies are being hacked either to gather account information or just to create chaos.  Remember when Sony’s Playstation Network was attacked, leaving …

Pillar Acquisition: A Major Bust?

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Days after Oracle released a statement saying that the company will not be making any acquisitions anytime soon due to the fact that Oracle is focusing more on internal growth rather than acquisitions, they purchased Pillar Data Systems – a private technology …

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