Hewlett-Packard has software to automate datacenters; EDS has datacenters which need automating. That's part of the logic behind HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the tech-services business. The deal proves that Marc Andreessen is prescient. After he sold Netscape to AOL, Andreessen launched LoudCloud, a website-hosting business powered by advanced software. In the wake of the bust, Andreessen sold the hosting part of the business to EDS, and relaunched the company as Opsware, the name of its automation software. HP bought O... lire la suite
Lien du post: http://valleywag.com/390131/hp+eds-merger-to-reunite-marc-andreessens-loudcloud
Hewlett-Packard has software to automate datacenters; EDS has datacenters which need automating. That's part of the logic behind HP's $13. billion acquisition of the tech-services business. The deal proves that Marc Andreessen is prescient. After he sold Netscape to AOL, Andreessen launched LoudCloud, a website-hosting business powered by advanced software.
Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, left bored by running a social-networking startup, has much time on his hands to write excellent analyses of the tech industry. His blog post on why Microsoft-Yahoo might fall apart seems prescient in the wake of that deal's failure. But there's one odd thing about his writeup.
Ning, the social-network software maker cofounded by Marc Andreessen, appears to get substantial traffic from adult-oriented websites it hosts. CPM Advisors notes that some of Ning's top networks. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, who now runs social networks for porn sites, doesn't think that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal bodes ill for startups. True, there will be one less buyer out there if. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Here's what you really need to know about Ning, according to Fast Company writer Adam Penenberg. Its chairman, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, has an egg-shaped head. Its CEO, Gina Bianchini, who posed for Fast Company's cover in a tank top, is a "hottie. And Ning, a provider of websites for niche social networks, is poised to hit "critical mass" and "no one can stop it.
Every time Marc Andreessen steps away from his desk, disaster abounds. For the father of the Netscape browser, the creator of the Web as we know it, the legendary barefoot geek from the magazine covers, expectations are way too high. And so the disappointments pile up. The Andreessen of today is not the Marc we remember.
By offering a suite of tools for websites to add a social network layer, Google isn't challenging established players like Facebook and MySpace, but instead sites offering customizable, turnkey social networks. In other words, look out, Marc Andreessen: Larry and Sergey just declared themselves the Microsoft to Ning's Netscape.
Along with former Opsware CEO and Netscape exec Ben Horowitz, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen invested in live-streaming-over-cell-phones site Qik, joining the company's board of advisors. Until now Qik was best known for its footage of Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis versus Tesla founder Elon Musk in a street race and Digg cofounder Kevin Rose's dodgeball triumphs.
Google Chrome has the potential to replace the Windows desktop — and kill Adobe's Flash for extra points. So said Marc Andreessen, one of the programmers behind the world-changing Mosaic browser. He'd long ago envisioned a future where instead of running applications from a desktop operating system, computer users would get everything from servers on a network.
PALO ALTO — Thursday night in a Crowne Plaza hotel, with an Elks Club banquet roaring next door, Netscape cofounder, Ning king, and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen sat down with Portfolio writer Kevin Maney for a Churchill Club interview. This wasn't exactly what Andreessen had planned.
Comedian Hasan Minhaj recently left his old job at social networking startup Ning to persue a career in standup comedy and writing. Pointing out to the crowd at the Punchline last night where he was hosting, Minhaj explained that his old boss, Ning founder Marc Andreessen, was worth $5. billion.
Marc Andreessen has been invited to join the board at eBay. The online auction company has been struggling of late, never mind CEO John Donahoe's assertion that what's bad for the American economy is good for eBay. Andreessen, probably smelling the stink blowing in from the rising tide, stockpiled enough venture capital to last Ning through a "nuclear winter.
Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, and Marissa Mayer are back as judges for Techcrunch50
Marc Andreessen rejoint le conseil d'administration d'eBay - LeMagIT
Marc Andreessen savages the New York Times Co. s board for their lack of Internet experience: So, if you want to issue bonds to pay for FCC-approved snack cake manufacturing in a submarine on. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Marc Andreessen, le fondateur de Netscape, Opsware et Ning et l'ancien CTO de AOL a rejoint le conseil de direction de Facebook; la société devrait l'annoncer incessamment. Andreessen rejoint au conseil Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel et Jim Breyer C'est au premier abord un peu étonnant pusiqu' Andreesseen est impliqué à plein temps avec Ning un concurrent plus [.
Marc Andreessen, le fondateur de Netscape, Opsware et Ning et l'ancien CTO de AOL a rejoint le conseil d'administration de Facebook; la société devrait l'annoncer incessamment. Andreessen rejoint au conseil Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel et Jim Breyer C'est au premier abord un peu étonnant pusiqu' Andreesseen est impliqué à plein temps avec Ning un concurrent plus ou [.
Netscape and Ning cofounder Marc Andreessen needs 1,800 words to say that what's really holding up the Microsoft-Yahoo merger: fears that they could strike a deal, but then see it collapse. Here's the 100-word version. A deal could be negotiated and announced and then fail to close.
Netscape cofounder and propagator of porn social networks Marc Andreessen will join Facebook's board of directors, Kara Swisher reports. Andreessen will join current board members Accel Partners Jim Breyer, Clarium Capital's Peter Thiel, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Andreessen is the chairman of Ning, a company which sells tools for rolling your own social network.
I was just reading feeds and it is 4 a. m. in the morning, so maybe I missed something here. But Marc Andreessen just spent quite a few words trying to convince me that Google’s Friend Connect doesn’t compete with Ning, the service he runs that helps companies build their own social network.