| Pivotal CEO talks IPO and balancing life in Dell family of companies
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| Pivotal has kind of a strange role for a company. On one hand its part of the EMC federation companies that Dell acquired in 2016 for a cool $67 billion, but it's also an independently operated entity within that broader Dell family of companies — and that has to be a fine line to walk. Whatever the challenges, the company went public yesterday and joined VMware as a separately traded company within Dell. CEO Rob Mee says the company took the step of IPOing because it wanted additional capital. "I think we can definitely use the capital to invest in marketing and R&D. The wider technology ecosystem is moving quickly. It does take additional investment to keep up," Mee told TechCrunch just a few hours after his company rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. As for that relationship of being a Dell company, he said that Michael Dell let him know early on after the EMC acquisition that he understood the company's position. "From the time Dell acquired EMC, Michael was clear with me: You run the ...
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| Last call on Amazon Echo discounts, sales on smart TVs and a Verge exclusive deal
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 Between robotic vacuums, voice-activated light switches and virtual assistants, the smart home tech business is booming. As smart home devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, a hub from which to control your various gadgets is a good idea. We liked Amazon's Echo, the device that introduced Alexa, back when it was introduced in 2015 and many improvements have been made in the intervening three years. Amazon Echo is on sale for $84.99 (usually $99.99) and the smaller Echo Dot is down to $39.99 (usually $49.99). These Amazon devices deals end at 11:59 PM ET on Saturday, April 21. An Echo bundle with smart bulbs from TP-Link is on sale as well for $112.24 (usually $144.93). This week, The Verge secured an exclusive deal from Anker on...
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| Let's catch you up on where each 'Westworld' character left off
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| There are no bathroom breaks during "Westworld," the HBO series that centers on a futuristic, Wild West-themed amusement park where humans can live out their wildest fantasies with android hosts. Leave for a few minutes, bend down to tie your shoelaces or even blink for too long and you'll probably miss a vital plot point. […]
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Let's catch you up on where each 'Westworld' character left off
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| Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech
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| Data is the lifeblood of the modern corporation, yet acquiring, storing, processing, and analyzing it remains a remarkably challenging and expensive project. Every time data infrastructure finally catches up with the streams of information pouring in, another source and more demanding decision-making makes the existing technology obsolete. Few cities rely on data the same way as New York City, nor has any other city so shaped the technology that underpins our data infrastructure. Back in the 1960s, banks and accounting firms helped to drive much of the original computation industry with their massive finance applications. Today, that industry has been supplanted by finance and advertising, both of which need to make microsecond decisions based on petabyte datasets and complex statistical models. Unsurprisingly, the city's hunger for data has led to waves of database companies finding their home in the city. As web applications became increasingly popular in the mid-aughts, SQL databases came under ...
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| Meeting Mr. Wright
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 He's "that guy" in every HBO series — and "that android" in "Westworld" — but chances are, you don't know anything about the real Jeffrey Wright.
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