Twitter sure is a rollercoaster, but going up or down?
The last 10 days have been pretty interesting to follow in the fast moving world of Twitter. They showed a contrasting (or seemingly so) picture of where the super-hyped company is heading. Let us rewind the last few events. Continue reading Twitter sure is a rollercoaster, but going up or down? Related posts:What is Twitter’s next step?

What EDA needs to change for 2020 success?
ICCAD’09 was a fairly good vintage. It started Monday morning with an excellent keynote from Hamid Pirahesh about cloud computing. The same day in the afternoon, a more EDA-focused discussion was initiated by Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan (slides can be found here), asking the question “What EDA needs to change for 2020 success?” Paul rightly emphasized three trends. The first one is well know: the continuously risi

What is Twitter’s next step?
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How can Xilinx improve its bottom line
Last week I wrote a post discussing Xilinx and Altera Q3’09 results, and I mentioned Xilinx’ operation margin consistently trailing Altera’s by 3-4%. I had a few emails regarding that gap, and why that gap would be closed eventually. Let me address this topic with this post. Comparing the yearly fiscal exercises directly would be biased (Xilinx’ fiscal year end on March 31st, and Altera’s fiscal year on Dec 31st). Instead we can look at a quarter by quarter

What was hot at the TechCrunch Munich event?
I was today in Sun Microsystems offices, which co-hosted the TechCrunch Munich event. Mike Butcher, editor TechCrunch Europe, was here to take about 150 attendants through a few presentations and 12 startup pitches. I promised I would write about what I liked, so here it goes. The breakroom had a tweeter wall with live reaction of the attendance –hashtag #tcm09, check it out.