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Silver Lake Partners’ gold mine

Om Malik, Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 5:12 PM PT Comments (0)

Forbes.com: Silver Lake’s big booty :: Combined with an additional $56.5 million of consulting fees, the buyout group has recouped its entire investment plus a two-year cash return of 26%, and still owns 80% of Seagate worth $4 billion. Silver Lake Partners owns about one-third of that booty. IPOs are supposed to raise cash [...]

Google comes from “googol”

Om Malik, Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 5:12 PM PT Comments (0)

With all the hype around Google these days - Newsweek, Wired and The New York Times have all written about the uber search engine - I thought it was time for me to dig into the archives and update you folks on Google’s name. This is an article from Forbes.com which I wrote almost four [...]

Troubles in the W-Fi World?

Om Malik, Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 3:12 PM PT Comments (0)

Intersil pre-announced today ? making public one of the little reported trends. Intersil revised its Q4 revenue growth expectation from up 1%-2% quarter-over-quarter to down 5%-7% quarter-over-quarter growth. The weakness was caused primarily by an overbuild of older- generation PRISM 2.5 WLAN chips in Q3, and by Intersil’s inability to meet strong demand for [...]

T-Mobile Toast in 2003?

Om Malik, Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 3:12 AM PT Comments (0)

Strategy Analytics thinks that the “debt Loads to force Consolidation with T-Mobile US top of List T-Mobile’s new management will find the pressure to divest non-core assets irresistible. T-Mobile & Cingular will merge to provide Cingular with coverage and spectrum relief and a realistic basis for competition with 2 national CDMA, 2 National GSM and [...]

P2P is hot; hosting is not

Om Malik, Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 1:12 AM PT Comments (0)

P2P datacenter management Is P2P the answer to increasingly complex combinations of devices in hosting facilities?
It was not too long ago that a 19-year-old frat guy named Shawn Fanning, decided he wanted to share his music collection with his friends. Working for weeks at a stretch, he wrote the software now known as Napster. The [...]

Baby Bellyflop

Om Malik, Wednesday, December 18, 2002 at 1:12 AM PT Comments (0)

RED HERRING :: Baby Bells, the one bright spot in the telecom sector, will be hit hard with declining or flatlining sales in 2003. They’re under pressure from numerous threats, including cable operators, which are doing well selling high-speed Internet access in the lucrative consumer and small and midsize business markets

Most of WorldCom board resigns

Om Malik, Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 4:12 PM PT Comments (0)

USATODAY.com :: WorldCom, which is in bankruptcy, said Tuesday that six board members who oversaw the company in the years it racked up more than $9 billion in accounting problems have resigned, leaving three recent appointees.

The virtualizer

Om Malik, Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 11:12 AM PT Comments (0)

Top Ten Trends 2003 - Hardware/Software :: The technologies around virtualization, an umbrella term for a collection of technologies that allow a corporation’s IT infrastructure to exist as one seamless unit, get their finishing touches and become all the rage for chief information officers worldwide.

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