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  • On Creating Another Silicon Valley, And Why Iceland Shouldn’t…

    June 17, 2014

    Business
    #StartupIceland, GreenQLoud, Iceland, London, McDonalds, New Zealand, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Valley
     

    I’ve just spent a week in Iceland meeting with startups and presenting to the Startup Iceland conference. The conference is the brainchild of Bala Kamallakharan, a one-time banker and now investor in the Icelandic technology scene. Kamallakharan saw the…

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  • Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

    March 4, 2014

    Business
    box, dropbox, Facebook, Initial public offering, ipo, Silicon Valley, twitter, US Securities and Exchange Commission
     

    Anonymous application Secret is an awesome tool. It allows people who would never be able to put their name to a statement to tell others something they know. It enables whistle blowers to tell the world of injustices that…

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  • Salesforce Broadens its Mobile Platform Offering – Joining the Dots

    July 30, 2013

    Business
    Enterprise software, GitHub, Mobile application development, Mobile device, Mobile SDK 2.0, Open source, salesforce, Salesforce.com, Silicon Valley, Xamarin
     

    A few months ago Salesforce announced a new push into mobile development, offering its existing developer base a bunch of tools to allow them to fulfill their mobile development needs with salesforce. In doing so they moved into the…

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  • Tying Cloud Costs to Return – The Hunt for ROI

    July 2, 2013

    Business
    Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, Organization, Pivot, Return on investment, Silicon Valley, Software as a Service
     

    Cross posted from the Cloudability blog In difficult economic times, every manager within an organization is feeling the pressure to reduce budgets. Given this fact, it is unsurprising that customers are often looking to cloud cost savings as the…

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  • Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support

    November 27, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, Apprenda, cloud computing, Microsoft Windows, PaaS, Paul Miller, platform services, Silicon Valley
     

    Today is the first day of the Cloudbeat conference, an event that myself and Paul Miller have, for the second year, built the agenda for. CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said…

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  • Upcoming Event – The Cloud – IT evolution or business revolution?

    October 4, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, asp, Auckland, Business model, cloud computing, e-commerce, Information technology, Silicon Valley
     

    In a couple of weeks I’ll be in Auckland as a guest of Provoke. They’ve asked me to come up and take part in a session entitled “The Cloud – IT Evolution or Business Revolution”. It’s a topic near…

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  • Huddle Picks Up Massive Series C Round

    May 24, 2012

    Business
    Aaron Levie, Alastair Mitchell, Andy McLoughlin, dropbox, Huddle, Kia Motors, Silicon Valley, UK Government
     

    Exciting news this morning from Cloud content management and collaboration company Huddle. The UK founded but now US/UK headquartered company is this morning announcing a Series C funding round to the tune of $24M. The round takes Huddle’s funding…

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  • That Old Cloud Cost Chestnut Again…

    March 7, 2012

    Business
    Business, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, Pivot, Silicon Valley
     

    Recently over on GigaOm, Charlie Oppenheimer wrote an extensive article looking at the relative costs of cloud versus self-hosting. It’s an excellently written article but one which in my (not so) humble opinion is flawed. Oppenheimer worked his calculations…

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  • There’s a World Outside the US–Podio Delivers

    February 2, 2012

    Business
    Android, BRIC, IOS, Podio, Silicon Valley
     

    Living  on the other side of the world from the bay area, it’s sometimes  little frustrating just how inward looking Silicon Valley can be. Sometimes it feels like some technology vendors discount the 5 billion or so people who…

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  • On Wadhwa at defrag – Stereotypes Might be Easy, But They’re Not Robust

    November 17, 2010

    Business
    Defrag, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Silicon Valley, Vivek Wadhwa
     

    Here at Defrag today, Vivek Wadhwa spoke about innovation. Despite starting off as little more than a travelogue and a list of people Wadhwa has met, he went on to talk about the barriers to entrepreneurship. He made some…

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