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| Oct 13, 2026 | Мне должны миллиард долларов акциями NVIDIA | В 1993 году я был одним из первых советников NVIDIA, а недавно выяснил, что мне причитается около миллиарда долларов акциями.Девяностые
Об этом мало кто знает, но в 1993 году Дженсен (тогда ещё без кожаной куртки) пригласил меня в техническ... |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Через тернии к Солнцу: уютный UNIX | Коврово-дачный сетап
Привет! Я Владимир Карагиоз, работаю техническим лидером по развитию гибридных облачных решений в Cloud.ru и увлекаюсь популярными в 90-х годах рабочими станциями, например, Sun SPARCstation. У меня есть 30-летняя машин... |
| Jan 26, 2025 | Они были «Dot» в эпоху Dot-Com | Компания Sun Microsystems Inc. во время расцвета доткомов однажды с гордостью представила слоган «Мы — точка в доткомах».
Скотт Макнили (Sun Microsystems) – это Дженсен Хуанг (Nvidia) эпохи доткомов 1990-х годов. Он был на обложках журналов... |
| Oct 12, 2024 | The Birth of Git: From Bottleneck to Breakthrough | In the world of software development, tools can make or break a project. Git, a version control system, emerged from a crisis. It transformed the way developers collaborate. But its inception was anything but smooth. In 1998, Linus Torvalds... |
| Oct 11, 2024 | История Git: на этот раз не так весело | Линус Торвальдс как-то написал в своей книге, что создавал Linux для развлечения, но в итоге это привело к революции. Git, его второе творение, также оказалось «случайной революцией» — и сегодня это стандартный инструмент для людей в ИТ. Од... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | RISC-V — звезда родилась: x86 не у дел, ARM сломала обе ноги | Привет, постоянные и не очень читатели :)
Это снова я — с четвёртой статьей из цикла про архитектуры, процессоры и всё такое. Напомню, как всё было:
Part I: Скандальное разоблачение x86: ARM врывается с двух ног
Part II: Этой индустрии нуже... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | The Future of Audiobooks: Voices of Tomorrow | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, the audiobook industry is on the brink of a revolution. Amazon's recent initiative to allow Audible narrators to clone their voices using artificial intelligence is a game-changer. Thi... |
| Sep 8, 2024 | AM Press Announces Launch of "Serious Machines" by Amir Husain | New book by globally renowned serial entrepreneur chronicles the history of computers that shaped the modern world
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- AM Press is thrilled to announce the publication of "Serious Machines... |
| Sep 2, 2024 | Краткая история Java | Команда Spring АйО подготовила перевод статьи, посвящённой истории Java — одного из самых популярных языков программирования.
В статье вы найдёте не только краткую историю языка, но и его ключевые характеристики, которые сделали этот язык п... |
| May 22, 2024 | Healthcare’s Trillion-Dollar Data Breach Crisis: Cybersecurity is a Matter of Life and Death | Arun Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondID
Between January 1 and April 1, 2024, at least 16.6 million individuals were impacted by data breaches across the healthcare industry. Of those, 16.3 million – or 98 percent – were hacking/IT inc... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Питер Норвиг: автор лучшего в мире учебника по ИИ | Питер Норвиг (Peter Norvig) — выдающийся учёный, один из отцов современной ИИ-разработки. После сингулярности ИИ точно оставит его в живых в знак благодарности.
Норвиг не только хороший программист, но и теоретик программирования, учёный и ... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Sun Country, Inc. Completes Private Offering of $188,277,000 Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificates | MINNEAPOLIS, March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sun Country, Inc. (“Sun Country”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Country Airlines Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCY), today announced the completion of an offering of Enhanced Equipment Trust Ce... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | ComScore top 50 sites July 2012: Instagram rocks, Tumblr passes MySpace, Sun Microsystems rises from the dead | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
ComScore released its July 2012 Top 50 web proper... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | ComScore top 50 sites July 2012: Instagram rocks, Tumblr passes MySpace, Sun Microsystems rises from the dead | ComScore released its July 2012 Top 50 web properties in the U.S. report yesterday, and it has a few surprises.
Old people are big on the web, apparently, as AARP web properties jumped 21 percent, Sun Microsystems has risen from the dead, a... |
| Jan 13, 2011 | Touring Texas with the Bloggers Part 1: Cloud Factories | This week I attended HP ISS Tech Day at Hewlett-Packard‘s Houston facility along with several other bloggers. We were given a tour and demonstrations of HP’s Industry Standard Servers (ISS) technology. We didn’t see new, unreleased products... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Paris | If you’re capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you’ll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country – more so in some areas. Not only does the country... |
| May 26, 2010 | Live from Copenhagen – TechCrunch Nordic, Pitches & Speakers | TechCrunch Nordic – Copenhagen – 26th May 2010
TechCrunch Europe is hosting its 3rd TechCrunch Nordic event – joining the Seedcamp startup programme on their European tour in Copenhagen.
Below you’ll find our live stream from the event whic... |
| May 18, 2010 | Speakers, Panels and Pitches at TechCrunch Nordic, Copenhagen, 26 May | Next week it’s TechCrunch Disrupt, but for those of you that can’t make it and are in the Nordics, TechCrunch Europe will be hosting its 3rd TechCrunch Nordic event on May 26 – joining European startup programme Seedcamp on their European t... |
| May 12, 2010 | Live Stream: EIE and TechCrunch Edinburgh #tcedin #eie10 | TechCrunch Europe is co-locating with Engage, Invest, Exploit ’10 in Edinburgh today. Our venue hosts will be holding the EIE event in the morning and in the afternoon TechCrunch Europe will be running a more TC style event, TechCrunch Edin... |
| May 11, 2010 | Come to TechCrunch Nordic, Copenhagen, 26 May | TechCrunch Nordic – Copenhagen – 26th May 2010
TechCrunch Europe will host its 3rd TechCrunch Nordic event – joining Seedcamp on their European tour in Copenhagen at the end of May. Join us!
Tickets are now available here.
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| May 7, 2010 | TechCrunch Hits Edinburgh Next Week | TechCrunch Europe will be co-locating with Engage, Invest, Exploit ’10 in Edinburgh on 12th May 2010. Our venue hosts will be holding EIE in the morning and in the afternoon TechCrunch Europe will be running an interactive seminar followed ... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | Come to TechCrunch Edinburgh, 12 May 2010 | TechCrunch Europe will be co-locating with Engage, Invest, Exploit ’10 in Edinburgh on 12th May 2010. Our venue hosts will be holding EIE in the morning and in the afternoon TechCrunch Europe will be running an interactive seminar followed ... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship | On Wednesday of this week, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake wrote a provocatively titled blog suggesting that wanna-be entrepreneurs should drop out of college. She based this opinion on the amount of successful companies founded b... |
| Apr 29, 2010 | For the Long Haul: Do Founders Make Better CEOs? | Ben Horowitz of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz wrote an interesting piece Wednesday on why he and partner Marc Andreessen look for strong founding CEOs when investing in companies. Founding CEOs are the kind of entrepreneurs t... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | All the pitches, speakers and video from GeeknRolla 2010 | Well GeeknRolla rocked London for another year and the feedback we’ve had has been incredible. The Twitter stream has been fantastic. There are plenty of pictures, and a few blog posts appearing already as we write. And another.
Congratulat... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | GeeknRolla: The Agenda For The Day | Well, we know some of you have gone through a lot to be here for GeeknRolla in London.
And some have had to hang around in London long longer than you thought.
But we know everyone is here to make this a great day to discuss the wonderful w... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | 11am Friday – Your last chance to grab a ticket to #GeeknRolla | Next Tuesday, GeeknRolla (remember, it’s all one word), the annual conference from TechCrunch Europe which brings together Europe’s technology startups and investors, will, quite literally, rock London.
All the delegate passes are *SOLD OUT... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | GeeknRolla gets ready to rock startups – and rock London | We’re just over a week away from GeeknRolla the annual conference which brings together Europe’s technology startups and investors. We have an amazing line-up of speakers, panels and startup judges on April 20. We’ll be launching around 15 ... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | GeeknRolla To Launch Startups, London, April 20 | This year’s GeeknRolla in London on April 20 will, in a word, be awesome. I created the concept of this this annual conference to bring together Europe’s technology startups to network with investors and talk about how they create and build... |
| Mar 29, 2010 | BlogTalkRadio Raises $1.9 Million | Popular podcasting site BlogTalkRadio has raised $1.9 million in Series B funding from the Kraft Group, Howard Lindzon, Roger Ehrenberg and founder Alan Levy. BlogTalkRadio, which was founded in 2006 and allows anyone can set up a podcast o... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | Live from TechCrunch Paris | TechCrunch Europe returns to Paris for its 2nd annual afternoon seminar today featuring yet another interactive and live-streamed session with some of the most innovative and interesting web and mobile startups and investors in France. See ... |
| Feb 22, 2010 | Next TechCrunch Europe events: Paris, London, Edinburgh, Copenhagen | TechCrunch Europe is plotting the next series of events we’re planning this year.
But we’re going to need your help.
We’re looking for speakers and startups to appear at our events, and we’re especially interested in new startups planning t... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Upcoming TechCrunch Europe events and others | The following is a reminder of our own upcoming events, those we’re partnering with and those we think are of particular, special interest to the tech community. To enquire about formal media partnerships with TechCrunch Europe please conta... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | EU Approves $7.4 Billion Deal Between Oracle And Sun | It’s official: the European Commission has granted regulatory approval for Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems for approximately $7.4 billion, without further conditions. In a statement released moments ago, Oracle says it expects unconditio... |
| Jan 19, 2010 | TechCrunch Europe events in 2010, and ones we're supporting | TechCrunch Europe is proud to announce the first tranche of events we’re planning this year. Now, before anyone gets upset that their city or event is not on this list, please be aware this is what we are putting our efforts into right now.... |
| Jan 7, 2010 | Google ups final bid for On2 to sway shareholders | Google and video bandwidth reducer On2 Technologies have amended their merger agreement that was originally announced in August. At that time, the search engine said it would be acquiring the company for $166 million.
Now the deal is being ... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Thanks to our sponsors – they help make the Euro tech scene great | We’d like to heartily thank the sponsors that have supported us this year at TechCrunch Europe. Without these guys, we would never be able to afford to create the kind of events and content around Europe and showcase the startups scene here... |
| Dec 19, 2009 | How two mad guys raised £2,000 for charity at ChristmasCrunch | So to explain: ChristmasCrunch this week featured a charity auction. It’s important to give back at this time of year, and it seemed obvious to auction off a LDNnudetech calendar which had created so much buzz this year for the IT-suporting... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Live Video from Realtime ChristmasCrunch | The second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch combines our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy gift-wrapped package. This year we’re basing it the hot theme of realtime streams and the event in Lo... |
| Dec 11, 2009 | Google, Facebook, and our privacy: We're all in denial | What does it mean to have a "right to privacy?" We have a right to vote, and too few of us use it. I heard it explained to me once, a human right is like a vegetable garden. You have to nurture it, take care of it, and harvest it.... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | ChristmasCrunch pitches from the latest Realtime startups | Ok, so we’ve whittled down the applicants for the Pitch session of ChristmasCrunch next week. But as we’ve had a lot of entrants this time round we’ve decided to embrace the spirit of the season and give everyone a shot. Get your tickets fo... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | ChristmasCrunch – Our speakers, and how to pitch your startup | The second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch combines our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy package. This year we’re basing it the hot theme of realtime streams and the event in London will als... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Sun's Head on the Block from Oracle Rescue | It's not that Sun's net revenue was down 25 percent in the third calendar quarter, year-over-year. It's not that the net loss of $120 million is that catastrophic, considering that at the same time in 2008, the company was down $1.68 billio... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch – It's A Realtime Holiday! | It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch! Yes folks it’s our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy package. This year we’re taking a different tack – basing it around one of the ... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Standards-Based Virtualization: Critical To The Future Of Cloud Computing | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMware. In this piece, Winston describes how the lack of standards inhibits customers from taking advantage of the full potential of cloud computin... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Amazon expands its database products with the Relational Database Service | Amazon continues to expand the services and infrastructure it provides online. Early this morning, it announced that you can run a powerful database in Amazon’s cloud with its Relational Database Service (RDS).
The RDS should serve as an on... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | Live from Munich – TechCrunch Europe seminar and meetup | TechCrunch Europe is hosting TechCrunch Munich at the Sun Microsystem offices in Munich today from 2.30 pm Munich time (1.30pm London, 8.30am New York) onwards, followed by networking drinks. We’ll be hearing startup pitches and speakers in... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Is that a data center in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? | With word that MySpace has swapped all their hard drives for solid state drives, this “prototype” portable data center from a pioneering Dell employee may be a sign of things to come. This is a pretty marked departure from the shipping cont... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | TechCrunch Munich, 20 October | Quite some years ago I was a young journalist sent on assignment to Munich to cover a conference. As many conferences are, it was not exactly rich with stories. But there was an upside. The Oktoberfest was on and I managed to sneak out to e... |
| Oct 2, 2009 | Открытые тренинги проекта Happy PM «Управление командой» и «Карьера менеджера»
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| Sep 10, 2009 | Oracle To Sun Customers (And IBM): "We're In It To Win It" | Gotta love this advertisement from Oracle, directed at current Sun Microsystems customers (and now rival IBM), stating its intentions with SPARC and Solaris before the monster acquisition is even a done deal. It’s a full-page ad that appear... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Geek Weekend: Ann Arbor, Michigan | If you’re craving city life or a university setting, Ann Arbor, Michigan is the place to be. Ann Arbor is the seventh largest city in the state of Michigan, with a population of 114,386, of which more than 30% are college or university stud... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Sun Microsystems preannouncement bodes ill for its employees | The results for Sun Microsystems‘ fourth fiscal quarter (ended June 30) are so poor that Sun has issued an early warning. That’s likely to lead to more worries among Sun employees who may lose their jobs after Oracle closes its acquisition ... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Sun Microsystems preannouncement bodes ill for its employees | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The results for Sun Microsystems‘ fourth fiscal q... |
| Jul 12, 2009 | Thanks Everyone: The Real Time CrunchUp + The August Capital Summer Party. | Update: We’ve got the photos up for you to check out.
Thank you to all of you who came out to support the 2009 Summer CrunchUp! We broke 600 attendees to the Real Time Stream CrunchUp, double our initial expectations, and we hosted lots mor... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Win A Ticket To The Real-Time Stream CrunchUp This Friday | For the past few weeks, TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor and I have been pulling together speakers and demos for our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp this Friday. What started as a roundtable and a few demos, quickly grew into a full-fledged mini... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | Going Once, Twice… Last Chance to Catch Tickets for Friday's August Capital Outing and Real Time Stream CrunchUp | The last batch of 150 tickets to attend our 4th annual summer outing on July 10 at August Capital are available now (now sold out), courtesy of Eventbrite. Once these go, the only way in is to attend our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp (which we ... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Agenda For Real Time Stream CrunchUp (And Third Wave of August Capital Party Tickets) | Our Real Time Stream Crunchup is only a week and half away (get tickets here). We’ve been working hard to pull together the best startups, investors, engineers, and marketers developing products and platforms which take advantage of real-ti... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Sun Microsystems’ code-named Rock chip crumbles due to delays | As Oracle closes in on its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun has voluntarily decided to lose some weight by canceling its Rock server chip project.
After five years in development, Sun’s commitment to the Rock chip has crumbled, even tho... |
| May 13, 2009 | Oracle Scoops Up Virtual Iron, Bolsters Virtualization Capabilities | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Database giant Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has scaled up its presence in Massachusetts—and placed itself in more direct competition with Hopkinton, MA-based EMC’s VMware subsidiary—... |
| May 12, 2009 | The Stockdale Paradox for entrepreneurs | Former MySQL CEO Marten Mikos on faith over optimism
Marten Mickos was brought into MySQL when the open-source icon had 12 people in 2001. He grew the company to over 400 people and eventually sold the company to Sun Microsystems for $1 bil... |
| May 11, 2009 | Microsoft Releases Second Beta of Geneva | News Microsoft Releases Second Beta of Geneva By Kurt MackieMay 11, 2009
Microsoft on Monday launched the second beta of its claims-based identity management server platform, code-named "Geneva."
Microsoft disclosed the availabili... |
| May 11, 2009 | Microsoft Releases Second Beta of Geneva | News Microsoft Releases Second Beta of Geneva By Kurt MackieMay 11, 2009
Microsoft on Monday launched the second beta of its claims-based identity management server platform, code-named "Geneva."
Microsoft disclosed the availabili... |
| May 8, 2009 | Exit interview: Retiring Intel chairman Craig Barrett on the industry’s unfinished business | Intel chairman Craig Barrett is retiring on May 20. Now 69, he spent more than 35 years at the company and deserves much credit for building it into a manufacturing powerhouse and the world’s biggest chip maker. He succeeded Andy Grove as c... |
| Apr 28, 2009 | 14 brand new Palm Pre webOS emulator screenshots leak out | As more and more people are getting their hands on the Pre, it looks like a few more developers have been given access to the SDK emulator. Well, either that or someone who has had access for a while got a little antsy and finally caved to ... |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Tweetmeme Live: See What’s Big on Twitter Right Now | Tweetmeme, a memetracker that tracks popular retweets on Twitter, just launched a real-time version of its service that displays tweets that are currently in heavy rotation on the popular microblogging service. In order to filter this const... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Oracle To Buy Sun For Approximately $7.4 Billion – Hold On To Your Hats | Oracle Corporation is to buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in a deal valued at approximately $7.4 billion, just a few weeks after a deal by IBM to buy Sun fell apart. It looks like Oracle will pay a premium of $2.81 a share, or 42%, ov... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | Sun VirtualBox 2.2 Adds Open Virtualization Format Support | News Sun VirtualBox 2.2 Adds Open Virtualization Format Support By David NagelApril 08, 2009 Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2 , an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution. The new release inc... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | IBM walks from Sun deal, but it could come back | IBM has withdrawn its $7 billion acquisition offer to buy Sun Microsystems, shelving at least for the moment a merger that would have created a dominant global market leader in computer servers.
The collapse of talks hammered Sun’s stock pr... |
| Mar 25, 2009 | Sun Releases Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3 | News Sun Releases Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3 By David NagelMarch 25, 2009 Sun has released Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3 , a major update to the company's virtualization management suite. The new version includes expanded ... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | BlogTalkRadio Now Playing In The Enterprise Space | BlogTalkRadio, the site where anyone can set up a podcast or “radio talkshow” over the web using phone calls, is playing in the enterprise space. The site, which has over 1000 live broadcasts per day, has been launching content partnerships... |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Sun looking to claim space in the cloud | Sun Microsystems jumped on the cloud computing bandwagon today with the announcement of its own platform for applications that run in the Internet cloud. The company is launching its effort with two products — Sun Cloud Services and Sun Clo... |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Sun hammering away at solid-state market, system bottlenecks | reader comments 7 with 6 posters participating
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| Feb 27, 2009 | Live Stream: TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable | Here’s the live stream of our Could Computing Roundtable, which kicks off at 2:30 PST with product demos from a handful of early-stage cloud-focused start-ups, with commentary from a panel of experts. Shortly thereafter our roundtable discu... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | Live Stream: TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable | Here’s the live stream of our Cloud Computing Roundtable, which kicks off at 2:30 PST with product demos from a handful of early-stage cloud-focused start-ups, with commentary from a panel of experts. Shortly thereafter our roundtable discu... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Cloud Computing Roundtable Sold Out, But It Will Be Streamed | Tomorrow’s Cloud Computing Roundtable is sold out. But we have good news. For those of you who can’t join us in person, we will be live-streaming the event. Thank you to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring the roundtable stream (powered by ustr... |
| Feb 18, 2009 | Widget Powerhouse JS-Kit Strikes Deal With Sun Microsystems | Widget provider JS-Kit has struck a deal with software vendor Sun Microsystems to provide cross-platform widgets to Sun’s internal and external properties. JS-Kit offers rating, polling, commenting and widgets that can be ad-supported or ad... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Top MySQL Officials Leave Sun | News Top MySQL Officials Leave Sun By Jeffrey SchwartzFebruary 06, 2009 After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to m... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Top MySQL Officials Leave Sun | News Top MySQL Officials Leave Sun By Jeffrey SchwartzFebruary 06, 2009 After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to m... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Sun Microsystems begins laying off 6,000 today [confirmed] | Updated with this response from the company:
On November 14, 2008, Sun announced a series of changes designed to align its cost model with the global economy and accelerate the introduction of compelling open source innovations. As part of ... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Data management software maker Q-layer sells out to Sun | Q-layer, a young provider of software to manage virtual data centers, has sold out to Sun Microsystems, collecting a healthy return for its investors Wellington Partners, Partech International and Big Bang Ventures. Last year was the first ... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Digital Mission Not Impossible: Showcasing 35 UK tech firms in the US | So we’re taking 35 of the UK’s digital/tech companies over to the US to get into the vibe over there and hopefully do some business. Specifically this is the “Digital Mission” – a kind of trade mission, but with more sex appeal – to Austin,... |
| Jan 7, 2009 | Sun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer To Expand Cloud Computing Offerings | Sun Microsystems is elevating its presence in the cloud with the acquisition of Belgium-based Q-layer, which is in the business of automation of cloud computing deployments. Q-layer will become part of Sun’s cloud computing unit.
The offici... |
| Nov 14, 2008 | Sun Microsystems to cut 5,000 to 6,000 jobs | Sun Microsystems said today it’s going to cut 5,000 to 6,000 jobs to align its costs to deal with the weak global economy. It’s another sign of how weak the economy has become, and how Sun is still struggling to find its footing after years... |
| Oct 24, 2008 | TechCrunch LateCrunch Event Wrapup | What’s a good strategy when about 1,000 developers and startups converge on one point? Throw a Techcrunch party of course. So it was with some relish that we threw an end of conference networking event for startups following the Web 2.0 Exp... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Sun co-founder departs to challenge Cisco | Pounded by the stock markets after a poor showing in its recent earnings report, Sun Microsystems now has another thing to worry about: Co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who most recently served as chief architect for its systems group, is leav... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | Sun expects bad quarter, stocks take a hit | The stock tickers Tuesday morning are just long stretches of red text with downward arrows, and Sun Microsystems said its numbers for the quarter will follow this downward trend.
On Monday, Sun released its preliminary results for the first... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | Sun Microsystems pre-announces earnings drop and write-down | After teetering along a recovery path for years, Sun Microsystems is slipping into the mire of a weakening business market.
The company said in a pre-announcement today it would swing to a large quarterly loss. The company expects to lose 2... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | TechCrunch Pitch! @ FOWA – the Runaround version | On the final day of FOWA last week I realised that there must be lots of interesting startups and web apps wandering around in the form of delegates – people who didn’t get their moment on stage during the conference . So I Twittered that w... |
| Sep 30, 2008 | LateCrunch – the official Web 2.0 Expo Europe after-party in Berlin, by TechCrunch UK | TechCrunch UK is throwing a networking party for European startups called “LateCrunch”, in conjunction with Web 2 Expo Berlin (21-23 October). The event will be on Thursday 23rd October, the last night of the Expo, and it’s going to be the ... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | 21 UK digital firms hit NYC last week – no wonder there was trouble | Earlier this year 20 UK startups went to Silicon Valley to network with the tech scene. The government-backed trip was called Webmission. Last week 21 UK companies were over in New York on the UK Trade & Investment’s “Digital Mission“, ... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | Adobe AIR for Linux evolves | The Linux version of Adobe AIR, a platform for developing and running Internet applications that run on your desktop, is now available in beta testing mode. That means Adobe is getting closer to a full launch of AIR on the Linux operating s... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 Hypervisor Adds 64-bit Support | News Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 Hypervisor Adds 64-bit Support By David NagelSeptember 05, 2008 Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox . The product is a cross-platform, open source hypervisor that supports host... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | Hard times in Europe may be a startup's advantage | This guest post is written by Robleh Ali, founder of Zoinetworks.
Although the Internet’s killer application – the Web – was invented in Europe very few of the great consumer web businesses have come from here. The true giants, like Amazon,... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | IBM Joins the Cloud | Continuing with the Blue Cloud initiative announced last Fall, IBM has wasted no time in its efforts to create a worldwide cloud computing network. Within the last six months plans for data centers have been set into motion in Ireland, Chin... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | These 10 companies will demo on MobileBeat stage | After some tough decision-making, we’ve settled on the ten companies to present to the full audience on stage at MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
They’ve beat out far more than a hundred companies after several rounds of selection. They a... |
| Jul 16, 2008 | TechCrunch Pitch! in London – The Wrap | Last week TechCrunch UK held the first TechCrunch Pitch! event in London.
The idea came about for this after I went to a number of demo and pitch events in the UK and other European countries and realized that too many startups were not act... |
| Jul 11, 2008 | TechCrunch Pitch! – Mini wrap-up | A quick explanation: I’m working on a fuller write-up about the first TechCrunch Pitch! event in London last night, which will appear on TechCrunch.com. In the meantime, please go and check out the photos and videos kindly recorded by Moblo... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | Zurich Meetup – TechCrunch Euro Tour | As part of the TechCrunch Euro Tour, TechCrunch is coming to Zurich, Switzerland, on July 17th, thanks to our co-organisers there. We’ll be throwing it at the Swisscom Bluewin tower in Zurich (pictured) for the Swiss web 2.0 crowd, includin... |