June 29, 2011 – East Palo Alto, CA. When two luminaries meet their combined light can illuminate issues on a variety of topics. Wednesday night, in a wide ranging conversation format presentation organized by the Churchill Club, Ursula Burns and George Colony demonstrated this principle by providing the audience with a number of insights regarding [...]
May 23, 2011, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—the Churchill Club held their 13th annual technology forecast. This session looks at the developments most likely to become significant in the next three years. The forecast panel consisted of moderator Tony Perkins, founder of Always On, and panelists Steve Jurvetson, managing director from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ajay [...]
April 1, 2011 – Palo Alto, CA – The Churchill Club held a breakfast event discussing the topic of leadership in the age of transparency. The event featured Gail Becker of Edelman, Peter Blackmore of ShoreTel, Gary Bloom of eMeter, John Hamm of VSP Capital, Anthony Wood of Roku and was moderated by Charlene Li [...]
Seagate and Samsung announced a broad agreement this morning (April 19, 2011) that the two companies will “combine” their HDD businesses. Seagate will pay Samsung $1.38 billion, half cash and half newly-issued shares of Seagate stock, which will result in Samsung owning 9.6% of Seagate, earning Samsung a nomination for a position on Seagate’s board. [...]
Combined Company Revenues to Exceed Seagate’s Summary On Monday March 7 Western Digital (WD) announced that the company had reached an agreement to purchase Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) for $4.3 billion in cash and common stock. The deal has already been approved by both companies’ boards and is expected to close in the third [...]
February 17, 2011, University of California, Berkeley–The Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS) offered a quick look into the leading edge of research at Berkeley. The four presentations (Powerpoint or PDF available on-line) looked at data creation and use across a number of areas. This event was just after IBM’s Watson computer thumped its human [...]
January 7, 2011, CES, Las Vegas– tablets, super smart phones, connected televisions, and smart appliances to fill the smart house were over the place at this year’s consumer electronics show. Although the show had thousands of exhibitors demonstrating many thousands of products, a lot of them seemed to be not quite ready for consumers to [...]
Bet you’re looking forward to next weekend like there’s no tomorrow! Labor Day weekend is a great time to unwind, shed the stress, strain, anxiety of your workday world. Of course you won’t shed it all…you’ll check email, you’ll carry your phone with you. Well we’ll add a little more to the load you’re carrying. [...]
The 41st annual Comic-Con was held in San Diego at the end of July. This year’s event was attended by more than 125,000 people and has expanded well beyond collecting, trading and selling comic books. The new show was focused on all aspects of science fiction, fantasy and mobile entertainment. To understand the extent of [...]
