The Effect of Facebook’s IPO

By guest author Daniel Burrus Facebook’s IPO may well be the biggest and most hyped IPO ever … and for good reason. Many people would like to have bought Google or Apple when they first went public, but they didn’t. Now they’re kicking themselves for it. Unfortunately, you can’t go back and undo the past.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of TerraCotta (Part 4)

SM: There are two trends that we are discussing in this conversation. One is the real-time trend. The other is the big-data trend. So, I would like to do a thought experiment with you that takes both of those into account and use a social media construct on the use case. Let’s say we are looking

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, the way end customers access your product is through other application vendors that are using your product to develop their applications? Ari Zilka: It’s a 50-50 split. Half the world doesn’t even need to know we’re there. They use other applications that use us. We help those vendors sell our product to

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The Microsoft–Yahoo! Deal

Last week I wrote Yahoo! Going Nowhere, “So far, I have seen absolutely NOTHING from Carol Bartz on a compelling strategy.”

Yahoo!’s Godot-like Wait for a Compelling Vision

Like its peer Google, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) seems to be suffering from the window-shopping phenomenon that has touched online consumers as was reflected in yesterday’s Q1 results announcement.

Yahoo! Names New CEO

Over the weekend, it became clear that Carol Bartz really wanted the Yahoo! CEO job, and that the board was willing to give it to her. Today, the appointment became official. Carol Bartz is the no-bullshit, down-to-earth, highly successful former CEO of Autodesk. Her story in Silicon Valley is a lesson in career management: boards

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Top 8 Blog-related Startups

Blogs have clearly turned the media industry upside down,, with many providing coverage superior to that of newspapers and television. While most of them read poorly, some are excellent, and these are monetizing by quality ad networks with their content and traffic. Here are eight players in the blogosphere worth watching:

Cadence Takes a Page Out of Microsoft’s Playbook

With the Microsoft-Yahoo! drama fresh on everyone’s mind, Mike Fister and the Cadence board have finally done something that shows a bit of boldness, some imagination, and possibly some courage. Cadence has made a hostile takeover bid for Mentor Graphics.