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Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: The biggest question looming over tech: Is the cloud boom over?

More than 20 years after the first documented usage of the term “cloud computing,” the first cracks appeared in the spending patterns of big data center build-out by public cloud companies......»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchJan 21st, 2020

Billionaire"s mega-mansion won"t sell, so it gets fully restaged

Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy first put his Silicon Valley monster mansion on the market for $96.8 million in June 2018. The tech big shot lopped $42 million off the price in October after the.....»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralJan 10th, 2020

Mansion"s price cut $53M and it still wouldn"t sell. So the owner did this

Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy first put his Silicon Valley monster mansion on the market for $96.8 million in June 2018. The tech big shot lopped $42 million off the price in October after the.....»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralJan 10th, 2020

Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: Two struggling industries could demolish tech’s earnings season

Mixed signa.....»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchOct 27th, 2019

Tech billionaire"s monster mansion gets a $42 million price cut

Silicon Valley big shot Scott McNealy drastically slashed the price on.....»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralOct 17th, 2019

Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: WeWork is a symptom of a disease that may not have a cure

The spectacular blow-up of the public offering of WeWork’s parent company We Co. shows t.....»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchOct 2nd, 2019

Ex-Oracle CFO plans to shop for a tech company with $316M "blank check" IPO

Former Oracle Corp. Chief Financial Officer Jeff Epstein and former Goldman Sachs partner Brad Koenig filed plans to raise up to $316 million in a” blank check” IPO aimed at taking a tech company public. Their Burlingame-based company, Apex T.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsAug 15th, 2019

Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: The memory game: Chip companies giving mixed signals about a rebound

Memory stores what has happened in the past, but can’t tell you what will happen in the future. It seems the same is true of memory companies......»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchAug 13th, 2019

Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: From a fake George Soros fund to cloud-controlled robots, Chinese IPOs are getting even scarier

A new batch of Chinese companies hope to raise about $1.8 billion by going public in U.S. markets in the next few weeks, after a hiatus caused by trade war jitters......»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchJul 21st, 2019

Market Extra: Trump says ally and tech investor Thiel ‘believes Google should be investigated for treason’ and he will ’take a look’

President Donald Trump says his administration will “take a look” at allegations made by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel that Google-parent Alphabet Inc. has been infiltrated by the Chinese government......»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchJul 16th, 2019

Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: Tech earnings are a test amid tumultuous times, and all the chips are on the table

As Wall Street gets ready to see how tech companies fared in the second quarter, the mantra about a ‘better second half’ is likely going to be a refrain in company conference calls.....»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchJul 12th, 2019

Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: D.C. is finally paying attention to scary Chinese stocks, but Wall Street may pay the consequences

U.S. regulators are finally paying attention to the risky issues associated with Chinese companies publicly listed in the U.S., but the proposed solution could actually be more harmful to U.S. investors......»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchJun 25th, 2019

Silicon Valley Is Destroying American Democracy by Playing Political Favorites

Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Perhaps it was expecting too much that the tech giants would check their political allegiances at the door to ensure fairness. Instead, they have let their politica.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeJun 22nd, 2019

Apple CEO to tech companies: Take responsibility for the chaos

Although Cook did not mention companies by name, his commencement speech in Silicon Valley's backyard mentioned data breaches, privacy violations, and even made reference to Theranos, a disgraced startup......»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralJun 16th, 2019

Meet The Few Silicon Valley Billionaires That Shunned Tech And Made Their Money In Real Estate

John Arrillaga and Richard Peery have made a name for themselves as the "Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard of Silicon Valley real estate," according to Bloomberg. Despite the fact t.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeJun 8th, 2019

Therese Poletti"s Tech Tales: Critics call Tesla’s Elon Musk ‘irresponsible’ for casting doubt on need for lidar sensors in self-driving cars

Louay Eldada, a co-founder and chief executive of Quanergy Systems Inc., a startup company now valued at about $2 billion, is a bit fed up with Tesla’s Elon Musk......»»

Category: topSource: marketwatchMay 26th, 2019

Singapore chases tech "Jedi Masters" for Silicon Valley ambitions

San Francisco-based investor Paul Bragiel said he needed to be asked three or four times before he accepted an invitation from Singapore to come check out its tech scene......»»

Category: topSource: reutersMay 24th, 2019

Beaverton tech firm was part of $255 million deal

A Beaverton company's sale this year was one of two acquisitions made by a Georgia financial payments provider worth $255 million, according to recent filings. Nvoicepay, a business-to-business payments company with roughly 150 employees in Beaver.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMay 13th, 2019

A woman of influence: At Infoblox, Lori Cornmesser has made a specialty out of high-tech sales

Editor's note: The Silicon Valley Business Journal is honoring 100 Women of Influence on May 16 for their impact on their professions and in their community. This is a profile of one of the women being recognized. Click here to read all of the profile.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMay 13th, 2019

AN UNLIKELY REVOLUTIONARY: How Tristan Harris went from working at Apple and Google to consulting with heads of state about how to reform Silicon Valley (FB, GOOGL)

Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty In recent years, Tristan Harris has become one of the most prominent critics of the tech industry. Harris got his start with a presentation he made while at Google high.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderApr 15th, 2019