Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile.

Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach.

Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Silk Road owner ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ accused of two new murder attempts

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Ross Ulbricht, AKA Dread Pirate Roberts, the man accused of being behind the infamous Silk Road online black market, has been charged with ordering an additional four murders on his enemies, according to a report in Forbes. This means that Ulbricht stands …

Stuxnet’s evil twin highlights the very real threat of cyber-warfare

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Knowledge of the deadly Stuxnet worm that wreaked havoc with Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has been public for more than three years now, but cybersecurity experts continue to stumble upon new revelations – with the latest one being that Stuxnet had an older, …

Future tech: Implantable brain chips could help unlock memories

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Imagine a world wherein you can just download information right into your brain? Just stick a jack into the back of your head, hit the ‘download’ button and away you go! It would be AWESOME, right? You could absorb the entire works …

Ballmer hits out against Xbox & Bing naysayers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Steve Ballmer is keenly aware that more than a few investors have the knives out for ‘under-performing’ divisions like the Xbox and Bing, but he’s determined to shut them up. In his last-ever shareholder meeting, the outgoing Microsoft CEO reiterated his belief …

Salesforce’s Benioff explains grand vision behind Salesforce1

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

If your electric toothbrush comes with GPS and Wi-Fi enabled, Salesforce wants to be the company that manages the data it creates, keeping your dentist informed about your teeth brushing habits. That is the vision behind Salesforce.com’s new strategy announced by CEO …

vBulletin forums hacked: Inj3ct0r Team tries to sell zero-day flaw

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

It’s come to light that the makers of the popular web forum software vBulletin have admitted a major security breach last Friday, which saw their network successfully hacked and breached, with the hackers gaining access to customers’ IDs and passwords. vBulletin said …

Death by Bitcoin: Say hello to the anonymous, crowd-funded Assassination Market

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Would you be prepared to kill for a small fortune in Bitcoin? Well, that’s the reward on offer over at a new website called the Assassination Market, a sick and twisted take on crowd-funding that lets people donate the cryptocurrency anonymously to …

Bitcoin value hits $649, you can blame it on China!

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin is spiraling out of control – the cryptocurrency soared to a record high of $649, before tailing off slightly to $640 at the time of writing, on the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange. This comes as the US Senate Committee on Homeland …

Salesforce swoops on the Internet of Things with Salesforce1

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

On Monday, Salesforce is set to announce its next-generation CRM platform called Salesforce1, which is envisaged as providing a way for software vendors, developers and customers to integrate third-party services like as Dropbox and Evernote with applications and sensors. Salesforce1 is a …

Google crushes Authors Guild in long-running book scanning dispute

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

For almost a decade, the Authors Guild has waged a bitter war against Google and its massive book search engine project, accusing it of violating copyrights on an industrial scale by scanning the pages of millions of books and uploading these to …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Silk Road owner ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ accused of two new murder attempts

Stuxnet’s evil twin highlights the very real threat of cyber-warfare

Future tech: Implantable brain chips could help unlock memories

Ballmer hits out against Xbox & Bing naysayers

Salesforce’s Benioff explains grand vision behind Salesforce1

vBulletin forums hacked: Inj3ct0r Team tries to sell zero-day flaw

Death by Bitcoin: Say hello to the anonymous, crowd-funded Assassination Market

Bitcoin value hits $649, you can blame it on China!

Salesforce swoops on the Internet of Things with Salesforce1

Google crushes Authors Guild in long-running book scanning dispute

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