Alastair Goldfisher
Nearly 70 cloud-related startups raised more than $500 million capital this year; some say that the cloud will continue to grow in the next few years, thanks to the enterprise
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For the last several months I’ve beaten the drum over cloud computing and the dozens of startups in the sector raising money. Today, another cloud-related company has joined the chorus. San Francisco-based Lookout Mobile Security, which has built a cloud-based threat network to protect mobile phone users from security threats, announced that it raised a $19.5 […]
Next year, look for Facebook to make plenty of small acquisitions to beef up its engineering expertise, like it did with Hot Potato and Drop.io this fall. That was the message from Michael Brown, corporate development manager at Facebook, who said last week that the social networking company would look at doing maybe 15 acquisitions […]
Forget social gaming and social media. You can even dismiss the iPad, mobile apps, Facebook and Apple altogether. For my money, the story of 2010 was defined by the year of the cloud. All you have to do is take a look at how the cloud has gone mainstream, with the Microsoft TV commercial that […]
It’s that time of the year again. Onset Ventures, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based VC firm, is set to mail out today its 16th annual holiday card. The handcrafted cards from the firm are known for their spoofing, and this year’s version is no different, as it pokes fun at Farmville and social gaming. Past Xmas […]
If you’re tired of talking about the cloud, social media and mobile apps, you might want to work the word “curation” into the conversation. As in, “Curation could become a hot sector in 2011.” At least that’s what Pearltrees is hoping. The Paris, France-based company provides social curation tools, which is a sort of advanced […]
What do Ashkon Davaran (the San Francisco Giants viral video guy) and venture capitalist Larry Marcus have in common? Both were part of the divergent crowd at SF MusicTech Summit, the annual gathering of technologists and musicians, held yesterday at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. At the conference, Marcus, managing director at Walden Venture […]
When it comes to tech execs who have impacted the music industry, Steve Jobs comes to mind for iTunes and the iPod and how they changed the way consumers buy, store and listen to music. Ravi Rajapakse doesn’t have a closet full of black mock turtlenecks like Apple’s CEO, but his company is likely to […]
We live in an over-shared world. And I’m as guilty as anyone for putting my personal life on public Internet display. Folks in my network know how much I ran this morning. They see pictures of what I ate for dinner recently. They read my every random thought on Twitter. We share articles of interest […]