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M&A and VC activity
In February 2007, Sports Illustrated bought a 40% stake in the social networking site FanNation for $25 million, valuing the sports social network at $60 million. FanNation aggregates, filters, and customizes all the relevant player and team content available at any [...]
If you have the problem of head lice or are looking for some of the best diet tips ever, chances are that you would head to WebMD’s (NASDAQ: WBMD) health portal to find your answers. More serious illnesses like Diabetes and Cancer drive tremendous traffic on health portals, WebMD being one of the largest in [...]
SM: How much do people need to learn to be able to optimize programs on the Tilera chips? AA: That depends on the applications and the domain. The good news is you have gotten something working and running. Once you have done that, you can then try various optimizations. You don’t have to read 50 [...]
SM: Is this when you began to close the gap on Cisco? EB: There was one play that we used which enabled us to close in on Cisco, and we called it Boundary Routing.
Cisco was driven to more complex solutions than us. They positioned routing as something of a magic art, very complicated and [...]
Web 3.0 formula discussion
Context
Most of the sports sites that I went through have very good contextual nuances. These sites have something for every sports fan. I liked the way sites like NBA.com, MLB.com and NFL.com have covered the respective sports. If [...]
By Danny Cohen, Guest Author
After taking some time off (and as such, skipping the July report), I am taking another shot at reviewing important deals that happened in the Israeli market. Like in Europe and the US, Israel slows down during the summer time. However, a few important deals were announced. A few deals that [...]
In this post, we will be analyzing ARM Holdings as part of the serieson the major players in the iPhone’s component ecosystem. The processor in the iPhone is based on an architecture licensed from Britain’s ARM Holdings, popularly referred to as an ARM Core.
ARM Holdings Plc.(Nasdaq: ARMHY) is the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property [...]
One of the greatest challenges with Massively Parallel Computing is Programmability. Anant explains Tilera’s approach to software and tools in more detail, and his “gentle slope programming” concept.
SM: You created all of the tools from scratch, or did you base them on existing tools? AA: We invented all of this, and it is very practical. [...]
