Category: Alan Weissberger
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Prelude to TiECon: TiE Silicon Valley Announces TiE50 2011 Winners
The Indus Entreprenneurs (TiE) Silicon Valley chapter today announced the winners of the TiE50 Awards, which will be presented at TiEcon 2011, May 13 – 14th, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. TiE 50, the 3rd annual awards program to recognize the “Top 50 Startup Companies”, will be a prominent part…
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Paul Allen on Microsoft Then and Now – Interview at CHM in Mt. View, CA
On April 25th, “idea man” Paul Allen discussed his life and work at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mt View, CA. In 1975, Mr. Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. He is currently the chairman of Vulcan Inc. and founder of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. He was interviewed by multimedia journalist, Jose…
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Amazon’s EC2 Outage Proves Cloud Failure Recovery is a Myth!
Amazon’s Cloud Computing failures began early Thursday morning and continue into Friday April 22nd. Affected web sites included Quora.com, Reddit.com, GroupMe.com and Scvngr.com, which all posted messages to their visitors about the issue. Most of those web sites have been inaccessible for hours, and others were only partly operational. Companies use Amazon’s cloud-based service (known…
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NSN in Talks to Sell Majority Stake after Motorola & Huawei Settle Dispute
Trade Secret Dispute Settled Clears Sale of Motorola Networks to NSN: The settlement of the legal dispute between Motorola and Huawei paves the way for Motorola to complete the sale of its network equipment business to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The acquisition, which had originally been expected to be completed late last year, was delayed…
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Will Level 3 with GC Be Able to Compete in the Business Services Market?
Level 3 Communications Inc. announced today that it would buy Global Crossing (GC) in an all stock-for-stock transaction valued at US$1.9 billion (after assumed debt). As part of the deal, which is expected to close by year end, Level 3 will assume $1.1 billion of GC’s debt. The two companies had combined 2010 revenues of…
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Three Different Scenarios for Delivering Cloud Based Communications as a Service
“Communications as a Service” or CaaS can include any type of communications delivered as a service based on a subscription model. That is, Voice over IP (VoIP), instant messaging (IM), email, chat, web, audio and videoconference services. It might also include telco network operations and management in the cloud. Yet the term CaaS now means…