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Betaworks, a New York-based seed-stage investment/development company started by John Borthwick (a former AOL executive who recently sold photo-sharing service Fotolog to Hi Media of France for $90 million), is about to launch its first project, SwitchAbit.
The project, described by Borthwick as a content routing platform, will become a standalone company and will merge with [...]

The Wall Street Journal points out that advertising campaigns of cable companies, phone companies and satellite operators are turning downright nasty, with each group poking others in the eye. Comcast, in particular, has been making fun of AT&T’s Broadband and TV service, continuing the tradition it started with the Slowskys campaign. Now, Time Warner Cable, [...]

As part of our renewed focus on technologies that matter, we are launching a series of events called GigaOM PM, occasional meetups at which we will gather to discuss topical and important technology breakthroughs. I will host these gatherings, and we will keep them small and focused.
To kick off the series, we will hear from [...]

Rarely does the tech world see companies who resemble Timex watches in their ability to take a patent lickin’ and keep on tickin’. But the U.S. headquarters of Buffalo Inc. is one such entity.

Data center and hosting provider RackSpace Inc., has filed to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering. Its financials seem generally sound (unlike many tech companies it’s actually profitable), although profits did drop by 10 percent in the last year.
However, rapid expansion (including its investment in the cloud) are to blame [...]

As data moves into the cloud, many storage companies are evaluating their use of memory in the data center as they try to strike a balance between easily accessible cache memory powered by flash and slower-to-access disk memory powered by hard drives. At the same time, they’re trying to make their storage easier to provision and more reliable by looking at some form of virtualization. Both trends will change the dynamic for large storage vendors in the years to come.