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Stacey Higginbotham

Bio:Stacey Higginbotham is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center. She has spent the last ten years covering technology and finance for publications such as The Deal, the Austin Business Journal, The Bond Buyer and Business Week, and works remotely from Austin, Texas.

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Updated: In yet another attempt to help folks feel that Google is a warm and friendly repository for all of their data, the company is offering a chance to see everything it knows about you all in one place called Google Dashboard. Except that much of… Read More »

Thanks to the amazing viral powers of Twitter, I found a series that CNN is running on cloud computing, complete with stories (I liked the one on server huggers) and fun video about an oddly named dog. The goal clearly is to explain cloud computing to… Read More »

Liquid Computing, a startup going head-to-head with giants, today launched its own version of unified computing gear that stands in almost direct contrast to the announcements made yesterday by Cisco, EMC and VMware about Vblocks and the new Acadia services arm. Also today, HP laid out… Read More »

T-Mobile service experienced a hiccup yesterday evening that left some 2 million users without service, and the usual rush of tweets and news stories followed the outage. On Monday night Rackspace, which provides managed hosting and cloud services, also experienced problems that took some customers out… Read More »

In the time-honored tradition of dealing with competition by suing the pants off someone for an inaccurate ad, AT&T today filed suit against VerizonĀ  for its “There’s a Map for That” advertising campaign. The AT&T complaint alleges that the Verizon ads use misleading maps that show… Read More »

Cisco, EMC and VMware, the trifecta of companies putting their own proprietary stamp on cloud computing for the enterprise, today created a partnership to offer equipment called Vblocks and support a new joint venture called Acadia that will help business customers and service providers build out… Read More »

Nokia Siemens, a telecommunications equipment joint venture, plans to lay off up to 5,700 employees, or 7-9 percent of its work force, in order to cut about $740 million in costs. The company, which is a joint venture between Siemens and cell phone maker Nokia, will… Read More »

Reid Hoffman on Taking Web 2.0 on the Go

Reid Hoffman, who joined Greylock as an investment partner for its latest fund announced today, chatted briefly with me on trends in social media as the web goes mobile. For him, the mobile web is tied to the Internet as viewed on the PC, but certain… Read More »

Dissension Festering in the Net Neutrality Ranks

A public interest group and Some law professors sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission this morning questioning the FCC’s commitment to preventing carriers from discriminating against certain types of traffic on their pipes. The letter, signed by seven professors and endorsed by The Free… Read More »

Greylock Gets $575M and Some Social Media Star Power

Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, today said it has closed its 13th fund at $575 million, and brought on LinkedIn co-founder and Executive Chairman Reid Hoffman as a new partner. Greylock XIII was supposed to be a $500 million fund, according to David… Read More »

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