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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

The Chinese Just Found Out About Bitcoin

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

A couple of months ago the Bitcoin community went silly with excitement as its value rose spectacularly against the US dollar, reaching the heady heights of around $250 for one Bitcoin, only to crash back down to around $80 within a couple …

Skype for Android Goes ‘Metro’ With New Update

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Skype has just updated its Android app, and the new software feels an awful lot like Windows Phone. We’ve seen Microsoft attempt to take advantage of its Skype ownership before, most obviously when it merged Skype accounts with its own, and today’s …

Big Data’s Getting Bigger in Asia

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

What with many of Asia’s countries still not quite having reached first-world status yet, many companies in the region can be a bit slow to adopt new technologies. Yet there’s one innovation that Asian firms can’t seem to jump on fast enough …

ICANN To Require Verification to Register New Web Domains

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, has announced plans to make domain registrars more accountable for those who sign up and register internet domains. WHOIS, the public domain name database of all …

Snowden’s Latest PRISM Leak No Big Surprise

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Ed Snowden was up to his old tricks last weekend with yet another bunch of documents being leaked to The Guardian and the Washington Post. There were two themes to this weekend’s leaks, centering on how the US intelligence community is actively …

How People Will Drive the Industrial Internet Revolution

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Computers are regarded as ‘intelligent’ machines, but this intelligence only comes from human operators telling them what to do. Now, we’re seeing a new wave of innovation that’s transforming all kinds of machines – not just computers – into ‘intelligent’ devices that …

EFF & FBI Face-Off Over NGI Facial Recognition Database

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice, accusing them of ignoring its repeated requests for more information pertaining to their upcoming Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database. The …

Adobe Snaps Up Neolane As Marketing Tech Battle Lines Are Drawn

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Adobe has just splashed out $600 million in cash to acquire the French marketing automation firm Neolane, best known for its “conversational marketing” technology. It’s products are pretty nifty, allowing marketers to integrate data from multiple online and offline channels, so they …

“Atlantis” Online Black Market Flaunts Itself On YouTube

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Most of us have heard of these so-called ‘underground’ websites like the Silk Road lurking amidst the “dark web”, where it’s supposedly possible to buy anything from drugs to guns and even assassins for hire, but actually locating them is an altogether …

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