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Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss

In his early 20s, entrepreneur Donald DeSantis had an interesting mentor — a very successful businessman whose business happened to be organized crime. Despite — or perhaps because of — his seedy profession, the mentor taught DeSantis much about managing risk, acquisitions and networking. Read More »

NSN's headquarters

Nokia Siemens Networks, the struggling telecommunications gear joint venture, announced it is cutting 17,000 jobs as it tries to restructure the company with a focus on mobile broadband. The layoffs will cut 23 percent of NSN’s workforce and will save the company about $1.3 billion. Read More »

 
 

The mobile industry is in trouble. Its networks are expensive to run. Retail customers want cheap pipes. At a conference Wednesday, a Verizon executive detailed the problem and explained how he wants to use OpenFlow and software-defined networking to lower his costs. Read More »

Cisco said its sales would grow by 5 to 7 percent through 2014, cutting its revenue growth in half, and signaling the end of its massive restructuring effort at an analyst day Tuesday. The move sent the stock up, but Cisco isn’t out of the woods. Read More »

Broadcom, a chipmaker known for wireless chips for cell phones and home networks, today said it will buy NetLogic, which provides silicon for networking gear. An emphasis on real-time data has pressured networking inside and outside the data center, and Broadcom wants to capitalize on that. Read More »

As countries like Iran and Syria step up their attempts to filter and even shut down access to the Internet, a new UNESCO report looks at the attempts by repressive governments around the world to censor and corral free speech on the Internet. Read More »

Cisco CEO John Chambers

As Cisco revealed its somewhat opaque plans to restructure itself, two things became clear: Marthin De Beer will take on a new role and the company is continuing to bet big on its nebulous Medianet strategy. Read More »

Skype, the web’s telephone and video chat pioneer, has seen a lot since its inception eight years ago. But it’s real legacy is its people. The well-connected network of alums reads like a Silicon Valley who’s who. Read More »

Can Networking Be Made Cool Again?

VC investing in networking and communications has fallen out of favor, decreasing faster than VC investment in technology overall. Indeed, there just aren’t that many new ideas walking in the door. So can networking be made cool again. It can, and here’s why. Read More »

Where Are the Network Virtual Appliances?

While servers and applications have gone virtual, migrating into cloud computing environments, networking technologies remain bound to physical hardware and data center racks. As server virtualization moves into the enterprise and cloud data centers, when will networking follow with virtual appliances? Read More »

BLADE Network Rides OEM Deals to $230M Valuation

BLADE Network Technologies today said it raised $10 million in Series B funding from NEC Corp., Juniper Networks, Garnett & Helfrich Capital and an anonymous server maker, bringing its total valuation to $230 million. The startup switch provider also reported record revenue in its … Read More »

How the Web Has Changed Job Searching

The Internet has changed a lot of things over the last decade or two — including how we search for jobs. Sure, the basics are the same: Find an opening and apply for it. But the web has permanently altered the employment process. And with more … Read More »

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Data center hardware infrastructure can be roughly categorized into servers, networking and storage. But two of those areas are merging before our eyes, as Cisco and HP battle for server and network integration. The business and technical implications of this consolidation affect other companies and … Read More »

Cisco today announced its Unified Service Delivery (USD) strategy, which connects the data center with IP Next-Generations Networks (NGNs) to help service providers meet the increasing demand for high-bandwidth and time-dependent services ranging from consumer video to enterprise applications. Essentially a unification of existing components … Read More »

Cisco yesterday announced the WebEx Collaboration Cloud, a new SaaS architecture specifically built to enhance the collaborative capabilities of its WebEx solution. The architecture consists of eight global data centers and provides intelligent routing, load balancing and seamless data backup. All of this … Read More »

Dell & Facebook are cooking up a new cloud computing dish. It is bad news for Rackable. Details next week. Read More »

Elastra, the San Francisco-based cloud configuration startup, says it has secured $12 million in Series B financing from investors including Bay Partners and Hummer Winblad — and Amazon. Elastra is the latest investment made by Amazon in the cloud computing sector. Last month, … Read More »

Earlier this month, India surpassed the U.S. as the second-largest mobile market (by subscriber count) in the world. With close to 280 million subscribers, it now has enough of a user base to become a breeding ground for a new class of applications that take into … Read More »

Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in Larry Chiang’s series on “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School.” (He’s turning it into a book.) What could founders do with “Man-Charm,” you ask? Answers Larry: “Founders can use man-to-man … Read More »

VC Rich Moran of Venrock will soon be contributing a regular column to Found|READ. Rich is a Silicon Valley veteran, a former Accenture consultant, and the author of five books, including Nuts, Bolts and Jolts: Fundamental Business and Life Lessons You Must … Read More »

I had a great talk with Greg Papadopoulous, the CTO of Sun Microsystems earlier this week. Greg is deep thinker, often using phenomena in astronomy to explain complex problems in networking. It’s inspiring. So I went to his blog. What I want to share … Read More »

Editor’s Note: Trevor is the editor of “Red Canary”:http://www.redcanary.ca/, a great online magazine/community just like Found|READ, but which is focused on “fast-growth Canadian companies,” rather than startups. Trevor’s July 2006 Red Canary post on “hiring tips for startups” is obviously very relevant to Found|READers, and … Read More »

In case you were wondering why the posting has been non-existent today, just wanted to let you know that I am feeling a bit shocked and mentally worn out by this morning’s terrorist attacks in London. In the light of that tragedy, everything seems so trivial, … Read More »

and might be sneaking its way back to the Senate via Senate Appropriations Committee spending bill, ala Real ID Act. Read More »

“We and the venture guys are sort of like doctors, I treat old people. They’re pediatricians. There’s just a lot more older people.” David Roux of Silver Lake Partners in San Jose Mercury News. In other words, SV is looking a lot like Florida these … Read More »

It seems most of the mobile websites are in Russell Beattie’s doghouse. The bad experience with WAP 1.0 and lack of seriousness is one of the main reasons why many are missing out a huge opportunity. I could not agree more with Russell’s remark that … Read More »

Long dismissed by the popular media, camera phones have become the hottest commodity this side of IPod and MiniPOD. (Three cheers for Alan and his brilliant Camera Phone Report!) Any this morning’s piece in the Wall Street Journal confirms that it is a camera phone … Read More »

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