Opportunities for Networking

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February 13 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss the Probability of Raising Funds for Your Startup

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required,

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How I Built my Social Media Network with 1M/1M

By guest author and 1M/1M ambassador Javier Hernández After almost three months collaborating with the One Million by One Million initiative, I can proudly say that reaching entrepreneurs and economic development organizations has been both exciting and promising. Not only because many of them were interested in joining our program or becoming our local partners, but because to they all

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When Networking Isn’t Working: Another Smart Way to Land a Job (Often) Fast

By guest author Dr. Marty Nemko This article is an adapted excerpt from his book How to Do Life: What they didn’t teach you in school. It’s been said ad nauseam that your network is the best source of a job. That’s true, but most people who are seeking career advice have already exhausted their networks.

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Gigamon , Milpitas, California

Following on Friday’s coverage of network forensics with Solera Networks, today’s post profiles Gigamon, which develops data access solutions to enhance network monitoring of data centers, service provider, and enterprises.

HP Acquires 3Com For $2.7 Billion

There were several options for HP to combat Cisco in the networking arena, including Brocade and Polycom. It looks as though they have chosen to go after Cisco front and center by acquiring 3Com. The latter has done a marvelous turnaround in the past three years. The stock has moved steadily up, and now HP

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IBM Wants to Buy Sun? Why?

Boy, I wrote the last Sun piece with a recommendation for Sun to hold on to its OpenSource business, and divest the hardware business, and thought that Cisco may be interested in the DataCenter business in particular. And the news this morning is that IBM is considering buying Sun for about $7 billion.

Marvell: Ethernet business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the previous articles in this series, we looked at Marvell’s product strategy, briefly reviewed the fiscal 2008 financials before dissecting the storage business area. Let us now take a look at Marvell’s position in its Ethernet semiconductor business.