Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 01/06/2011

Our daily roundup starts with Focus‘ look at one of the most emblematic companies in tech history: Cisco. Also with its place guaranteed in the revolutionary companies pantheon, Skype’s history is analyzed by Online MBA, and, speaking of history, Mindflash and Retail Me Not help us to know a bit more about some of the tech moguls, and their path to fame and money. To close, an overview of what happened in this year’s Google I/O, provided by Vida MRR.

The Rise and Fall of Cisco

Skype – A Coming of Age Story

Stock Boy to Tech Mogul: The First Jobs of Tech Billionaires

Net Worth: 31 Tech Company Founders and Their Millions

Google I/O 2011

Today’s video:

Go Green

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This story written by Tiago Veloso

Tiago Veloso works as an Independent Content Curator and Marketing/Branding Consultant, with a confessed addiction for everything web 2.0, besides design, photography, arts and green politics, with which he fills his Twitter stream (@TSSVeloso). He lives in Brazil, and started the Visual Loop project as a way of collecting and sharing the immensity of infographics and other forms of data-visualization spread throughout the internet.