Analysis - Scott Raynovich

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    Why Blackberry Was Worth Less Than $10

    Yes, 11,000 tech writers have already weighed in on the deal proposed by Canadian firm Fairfax Financial to take wireless device and services company Blackberry private for $9 per
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    Is a New Tech IPO Bubble Back?

    The financial mavens are taking notice of the tech IPO market. They're worried, 'cause it's gotten too hot. On Friday, two tech IPOs covered here, Rocket Fuel (FUEL) and
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    FireEye, Rocket Fuel Hit Hot IPO Market

    FireEye (FEYE) and Rocket Fuel (FUEL) will be the most newly minted public technology companies after they priced Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) last night and hit the market in
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    Kid Ditches School to Download iOS 7

    Did you hear Apple's iOS 7 is out? This is how I heard: I picked up a kid at school today. There across from the school I was told
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    Mike Volpi's New Tech Wants and Needs

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi, the former Cisco Systems executive who is now a venture partner with Index Ventures, sat across from me in the comfy chairs of
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    The Ever-wired Stadium

    Do people at sports stadiums actually watch the game anymore? Connectivity and social networking is becoming a more integral part of the live sports experience, and stadium owners and
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    Verizon's Vodafone Debt Bubble

    Verizon's $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's Verizon Wireless stake last week marked the biggest deal in communications history. What's even more interesting is the biggest bond financing in corporate
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    Big Switch Subject to Small Takeover Talk

    The Software Defined Networking (SDN) market just got more complicated. Nothing demonstrates that more than the rumors floating around the alleged declining value of private startup Big Switch. Our
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    Market Pans Microsoft/Nokia Deal: Here's Why

    The Tuesday after Labor Day often brings lots of deals. Sometimes the market likes them, sometimes the market hates them. This morning we learned that Microsoft (MSFT) is ponying
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    The Wisdom of the Woz

    LAS VEGAS -- ITEXPO -- Life as an entrepreneur or a startup worker can be tough and challenging, sometimes seemingly up against all odds. So what keeps people going?
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    The Dark Side of M2M: Scary Hacking Stories

    LAS VEGAS -- ITEXPO -- One of the hot technology buzzwords these days is "M2M" -- for Machine to Machine Internet connectivity, also known as the Internet of Things.
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    VMworld Roundup: Virtualization Meets SDN

    VMWorld, for those of you not in the know, is where ever-powerful virtualization technology company VMware (VMW) shows off its stuff, along with many partners (and many parties). This
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    The RR Interview: Jon Reeves' Shift to Security

    Many veterans of the networking technology market will recognize the name Jonathan Reeves. A long-time entrepreneur with engineering roots dating back to General Datacomm in the early 1990s, Reeves
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    The Ballmer Critics Are Wrong, Microsoft's Fine

    You would think after reading the wide-ranging indictment of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the technology and business press, he had run Microsoft into the ground and driven his
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    AFORE Looks to Lock Down the Cloud

    Canadian security company AFORE Solutions thinks it has a new security approach to prevent insiders such as former NSA analyst Edward Snowden from sneaking off with sensitive data.
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    News Brew: NSA Under Siege in Judge vs. Spy

    Yesterday I wrote about the complacency about NSA data surveillance. Meanwhile, every day, we find out that the NSA surveillance program ran deeper and wider than anybody imagined. It
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    SDN Guru Craig Matsumoto Talks Shop

    There's this thing called Software Defined Networking (SDN) generating quite a lot of noise in the networking technology market right now. PR and marketing people love new buzzwords and
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    Rocket Fuel Plans $100M IPO Launch

    Internet ad networks are hot. Data science is hot. Therefore, Rocket Fuel, the company that combines ad networks and data science, can go public. And on Friday it filed
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    Cisco Investors Spooked by Layoffs

    Shares of Cisco (CSCO) opened down sharply this morning, dropping nearly 7% at the market open, following an earnings report that delivered satisfactory earnings but scared investors with the
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    The How and When of SDN

    A big theme of the Rayno Report is innovation in the connected world. That is, how do our network connections create value. We have seen this over time with