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

Big Data Black Hole Looms As Consumers Say “No” To Tracking

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Given the chance to select a “do not track” feature on your computer or mobile device, would you willingly allow companies to gather data about you? Most likely, if the option to turn off data tracking was right there in front of …

Lenovo & HP React To Dell Buyout, Forget to Mention Microsoft

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

The announcement that Dell is planning to revert to its status as a private company has drawn contrasting reactions from two of the firm’s main rivals. On the one hand, we have the world’s top PC maker HP claiming that Dell faces …

Big Data F*** Ups: What CIOs Need To Know

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Enterprise is sometimes pretty quick on the uptake, as illustrated by the fact that the vast majority of organizations have given Big Data projects a very high priority in recent months. Businesses and their CIOs understand that gaining insights from Big Data …

Microsoft: “We’re Just Getting Started” With Windows 8

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Don’t believe all the naysayers claiming that Windows 8 is struggling to win over consumers – the new operating system is doing just fine, according to Microsoft. We’ve heard this line before, with Microsoft ever quick to point out that sales of …

Building Big Data: Will a Super Wi-Fi Network Kill Off Mobile Carriers?

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is working on an extraordinarily ambitious plan to create “Super Wi-Fi networks” that are so incredibly powerful they could reach every corner of the nation, allowing people to make calls and access the internet from anywhere, completely …

Facebook Ads Become Ever-So-Slightly More Transparent

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Given the way that Facebook seems to change things up every other week, you would be forgiven for never knowing where you stand on privacy issues. Facebook collects masses of data about you, but very rarely does it tell you what it …

Oracle Acquires Network Solutions Provider Acme Packet In $1.9 Billion Deal

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Oracle will bolster its communications portfolio with the acquisition of Acme Packet, which makes networking gear for data, voice and unified communications services, in a deal reportedly worth some $1.9 billion cash. The company announced that it will acquire Acme Packet for …

Strange Big Data: Can We Really Predict Everything?

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Anyone who knows anything about Big Data understands that, at the end of the day, it all boils down to guesswork. The reason we accumulate so much data, and store it, and try to glean insights from it, is so we can …

Is Google Being Racist?

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

A new study of Google’s search engine has found that searches for names typically associated with black people are far more likely to throw up ads relating to criminal activity, leading one Harvard professor to suggest that the search engine could be …

Super Bowl on Twitter & Facebook: Power Outage and Beyonce Steal the Show

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY14 YEARS AGO

Facebook and Twitter saw more than their fair share of action during yesterday’s Super Bowl, and not surprisingly the power outage that left the Superdome in the dark was among the ‘biggest trending’ topics on both social media sites. Super Bowl on …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Big Data Black Hole Looms As Consumers Say “No” To Tracking

Lenovo & HP React To Dell Buyout, Forget to Mention Microsoft

Big Data F*** Ups: What CIOs Need To Know

Microsoft: “We’re Just Getting Started” With Windows 8

Building Big Data: Will a Super Wi-Fi Network Kill Off Mobile Carriers?

Facebook Ads Become Ever-So-Slightly More Transparent

Oracle Acquires Network Solutions Provider Acme Packet In $1.9 Billion Deal

Strange Big Data: Can We Really Predict Everything?

Is Google Being Racist?

Super Bowl on Twitter & Facebook: Power Outage and Beyonce Steal the Show

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