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Will IoT Turn Into 'Intel of Things'? Interview With Intel's Rose Schooler

The world's largest chipmaker sees massive opportunities in IoT. Intel Free Press interviews Rose Schooler, head of Intel's Internet of Things Group.By Intel Free PressWith the chance to connect...

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Report: Venture Backed IPOs Rising As M&A Deals Plunge To Lowest Since 2003

The National Venture Capital Association reported that the number of initial public offerings (IPOs) for VC-backed companies rose 59% in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the first quarter of...

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Beating A Path For Innovative Technologies

I came across a great interview by Danny Palmer at Computing, with Mike Lear the CIO of City Index, which provides spread betting services to tens of thousands of financial markets traders.Faster...

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Delphix Raises $75m Led By Fidelity And Wins Recognition In Top IT User Awards

 Delphix HQ in Menlo Park.Delphix, (my employer) is building some excellent momentum with the announcement of $75m in funding led by Fidelity Management and Research, with new investors Credit Suisse...

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Robots Will Still Need Humans In Factories Of The Future

Above, modeling uncertainty in human-robot interaction at UC Berkeley.The good news is that humans will still be needed in the factory of the future; the bad news is that humans will still be needed in...

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Analysis: The Nikkei Financial Times — Scale Matters

The Financial Times (FT) newspaper business has been sold by Pearson to Nikkei, the Japanese media group for $1.32 billion. The deal values the FT at nearly three-times the market valuation of other...

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Twitter's Problems Could Harm SF Mayor's Re-Election

Twitter is cleaning up in the Tenderloin. Twitter’s second quarter financial loss was smaller than Wall Street estimates but it also reported a large slowdown in the number of users and shares slid...

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Super-Fast Energy-Saving Memory Chip Breakthrough Will Change Computing

We will all be using a new type of memory chip soon reports Intel Free Press, thanks to the fruits of a partnership between Intel and Micron.By Intel Free PressAfter years of research by Intel and...

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Media Business Models: Paper And Electron? That's Creativ

I recently received this well written pitch from Kaitlyn Garcia at VSC Consulting:Print is dead. Magazines are dying.Not so, thinks Creativ.This magazine did something unique. They launched on mobile...

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What's Next When Every Company Is A Media Company? MaaS Media...

I'll be speaking Wednesday afternoon at PR Summit in San Francisco on the topic "Every company is a media company." I coined that term nearly a decade ago. Now every company is exploring what it means...

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Computer History: The Wearables Are New But The Challenges Are Old

Clint Zeagler, co-curator and co-designer of the “On You: A Story of Wearable Computing” show at the Computer History Museum.By Intel Free PressWhile wearables may be the latest rising trend, the...

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'Leaders aren't afraid to be wrong' Says LinkedIn's Head Designer Amy Parnell

Above, LinkedIn's Head Designer Amy Parnell interviewed by Adam Leventhal CTO of Delphix.The recent Delphix Tech Talk series featured Amy Parnell, Director of User Experience at LinkedIn. Adam...

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Finn Partners Acquires Horn Group...And The PR Industry's Gender Barrier

PRWeek’s Lindsay Stein reports that Finn Partners has acquired Horn Group for an undisclosed sum to boost its tech practice.After more than two decades in the business, Horn said she started thinking...

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Technologies For Understanding Human Sign Language

A report from Intel Free Press on the challenges in developing communications technologies for deaf people... By Intel Free Press Adam Munder, a lithography process engineer at Intel, has been 100...

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Jasper And The Connected Car

Jasper is positioning itself firmly in the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure sector where it already has a lot of customers for its technologies.If you are interested in IoT and the "connected...

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Weber Shandwick And The Future Of Journalism

The San Francisco office of PR firm Weber Shandwick is hosting an interesting panel on October 13 with top journalists and corporate media execs titled: Journalism Disrupted, Journalism Reborn: The...

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Churchill Club: Intel's Andy Grove Receives 'Legendary Leader Award'

From left: Saleem Janmohamed, Accenture; Andy Grove, Ben Horowitz and Geoffrey Moore, M.C.Andy Grove was a founder, CEO and Chairman of Intel during a long career that saw the Silicon Valley firm grow...

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Weber Shandwick: Not Much Future In Spirited 'Future Of Media' Discussion

Weber Shandwick had a great turnout for its Future of Media event moving it to FAME on Broadway, a larger location in the heart of North Beach. And we had a rare all-woman panel after the lone male...

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Internet Archive Hero Award Goes To Viral Marketing Pioneers Grateful Dead

John Perry Barlow accepts Internet Archive Hero Award from Brewster Kahle.The Internet Archive (IA), the San Francisco based non-profit digital media archive, this week announced several new programs...

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Computer Pioneer Alan Kay Says Tech Industry Ignores The Future

 I was at SAP in Palo Alto earlier this week to see computer pioneer Alan Kay give a talk and also to meet with him for an exclusive interview.I’ll have more on the interview coming up. I just uploaded...

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