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Leaders from AMD, Box, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Zynga, Intel, Netflix, Akamai, IBM, EMC, salesforce.com, Verizon, and more to headline fifth-annual GigaOM Structure – the world’s most influential cloud computing conference.

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Marketplace – Greenpeace says some of those companies running cloud services are doing better than others from an environmental stewardship point of view. It has issued a report card on energy and gives Amazon and Apple Fs. Google achieved higher scores for its use of renewable energy sources.

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Ryan Lawler sat down with director James Cameron and his longtime partner Vince Pace to talk about the future of 3-D in the home, how their work is making 3-D accessible to other directors and production teams, and how the industry overcomes its chicken-and-egg problem — getting consumers interested in 3-D TV while getting broadcasters on board with shooting in 3-D.

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GigaOM’s paidContent 2012 returns to The TimesCenter in New York City on May 23 to examine the most promising opportunities at the crossroads of technology and content. Luminaries from the publishing, media and entertainment industries will discuss how their content business models have shifted. Media strategists, content producers, investors and industry insiders will gain a better understanding of the economics of content and discover new ways to make content meaningful and profitable.

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7Live – GigaOM’s Katie Fehrenbacher explains green tech and introduces us to some environmentally friendly products.

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GigaOM today announced it will host Structure, its flagship cloud conference, in Europe for the first time. GigaOm Structure:Europe 2012 will take place October 16-17 in Amsterdam, bringing together hundreds of global innovators shaping the future of computing.

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KNPR – Chinese energy company ENN Group offered to make a $5 billion investment in Clark County, Nevada and the county commission facilitated the project by selling land to the company. The devil’s in the details — and this one’s a peculiar plan that involves politics, an outdated technology and an ambitious plan that’s being drawn up in the middle of one of the most difficult solar markets in years. It also raises questions about the way the renewable energy market is developing in California and Nevada.

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Expansion gives GigaOM deeper roots in European technology market San Francisco, CA, April 10, 2012 — GigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, today announced the launch of the GigaOM Europe channel, providing breaking news and analysis on European startups, venture capital, digital media, mobile, broadband, and emerging technologies. The company also announced it [...]

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GigaOM today announced initial speakers for GigaOm Structure 2012, the number-one cloud computing conference now in its fifth year. Scheduled for June 20-12 in San Francisco, Structure is the seminal event in cloud computing, expected to bring together over 1,100 innovators shaping the future of the technology industry.

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CNET – Is Hadoop a cool new petabyte storage array? Or is it already as obsolete as yesteryear’s tape drives? Some think Hadoop is merely a bridge to some better, future platform.

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Tech News Today – Apple giving out cash, a hotspot with free data, OMGPOP unseats Zynga, and more. Guests include GigaOM’s Erica Ogg.

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Channel 4 – GigaOM’s Robert Andrews believes that along with Mashable’s audience and reach, CNN will see Cashmore himself as a valuable asset.

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GigaOM Structure:Data: Over 700 Attendees Expected at Pivotal Event Leaders from Google, EMC, VMware, IBM, PayPal, Rocket Fuel, Match.com, and more speak at industry’s number one conference on Big Data; dozens of journalists from pubs such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch to cover the event GigaOM, a leading business and [...]

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Outlook India.comIndia-born blogger Om Malik is periodically listed among the top 50 influencers in the world of technology, evident from the 1.2 million followers he has on Twitter. His widely followed blog Giga Om serves up cutting-edge technology news, analysis and opinion.

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March 8, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – GigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, today announced the initial speaker lineup for the third annual paidContent 2012, the forum solely focused on the economics of digital content. Senior executives from the media, information and entertainment industries will gather to debate and discuss content business [...]

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MediaGuideWhen the U.K.-based Guardian Media Group bought PaidContent in 2008, it was portrayed as an attempt to expand into the U.S. market.

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The AtlanticThe website that knows everything about metered paywalls and click-through rates has been bought by the website that prides itself in its technology and media coverage

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CNETGigaOm, one of Silicon Valley’s best-known blogs, said today it has acquired the assets from ContentNext Media, parent company of media blog paidContent, from publisher Guardian News & Media.

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PRWebGigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, announced today that it has acquired paidContent from Guardian News & Media Limited.

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The WrapGigaOm is buying ContentNext Media, the owner of the digital media site paidContent, from Guardian News & Media for an undisclosed sum.

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GuardianThe digital media news website paidContent has been acquired by the US media and technology network, GigaOM.

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New York TimesGigaOM, a technology media company, has acquired ContentNext Media, the parent company of paidContent, from Guardian News and Media, for an undisclosed sum, amid an industry consolidation.

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San Francisco, February 8, 2012 – GigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, announced today that it has acquired paidContent from Guardian News & Media Limited. The company has acquired all the assets of ContentNext Media, including paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra.com and paidContent:UK, and will retain its editorial and business staff. “With our shared commitment [...]

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HighbeamHighbeam Research named GigaOM one of its Top 10 Tech Blogs for Research based on the level of innovation and timeliness in the content, as well as the authority of the commentary.

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Ryan Lawler discusses data caps, tiered pricing and how cable companies approach data usage as more devices are going online. KYW Newsradio 1060 by Ian Bush

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ABCIn the past couple of years, we’ve seen music, movies, even video games move into the cloud. The next step may be putting yourself in the cloud. A Bay Area company is using robots to let you be everywhere at once.

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ForbesTesla Motors’ new Tesla S is scheduled to roll out next year. It’s the second model from Tesla, and this one is designed for a wider audience than Tesla’s first vehicle, the Roadster.

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CNETLots of things have changed about cars over the past few decades. One that hasn’t evolved all that much is the user interface that most of them provide. Garden-variety automobiles are still full of gauges and buttons and switches of the decidedly physical, old-fashioned sort.

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WiredClayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, touches on some of thsee issues in a must-read interview on GigaOM.

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Washington PostDarrell Etherington from theAppleBlog chatted about whether or not you should upgrade your iPhone right now.

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Wall Street JournalThe blog GigaOm said that vocal reaction to The Journal’s take on funding challenges faced by start-ups was partly to do with how the issue was framed…The question should be whether the 98 out of 100 companies that did not receive funding actually deserved funding in the first place, the blog said.

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Sources close to the situation tell GigaOM that the new framework, code-named “Lakeview,” will be based on Silverlight, but will also bring a few new features from Xbox Kinect, including voice recognition and gesture-based controls.

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GigaOM’s Colleen Taylor wraps up Mobilize 2011 with insights on iPhone 5, Google Wallet and other hot mobile trends.

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PCWorld At the GigaOM Mobilize 2011 Conference today in San Francisco, T-Mobile showed off the latest additions to its selection of 4G phones.

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Seeing the mobile wave coming and understanding how to ride it are not the same thing, attendees at the Mobilize conference say.

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GigaOM’s Ryan Lawler speaks to CNET about recent changes at Netflix, Dish and Facebook.

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Huffington PostA recent story on Gigaom quoted an NRDC study showing that streaming is vastly more energy efficient than other forms of movie watching. Netflix believes in this so deeply that it is splitting the company into two separate entities, probably in secret hopes that the DVD delivery side will be phased out.

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Vator News This point was made well by GigaOm’s Matthew Ingram. His prevailing thesis can be summed with the sentence, “the social web is about reputation and influence, not necessarily names.”

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American Public Media Marketplace Tech ReportKatie Fehrenbacher covers green technology for GigaOM. She says Solyndra was offering a new approach to solar but the numbers didn’t add up.

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CBS News “The Early Show” GigaOM’s Katie Fehrenberger shares her expertise on Solyndra with CBS

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ABC News KGO-7 Solyndra’s costs were just a lot higher,” said GigaOM contributor Katie Fehrenbacher, who wrote about the financial challenges facing Solyndra at the time of the president’s visit.

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Researchers Nielsen have produced their latest second-quarter survey and cautiously note that the gender gap is beginning to open up, reports GigaOm.

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“What happens when people start using wireless and broadband in everything they do? ‘Connectedness’ has completely changed the way we live, create, consume and earn,” said Om Malik, founder and senior writer, GigaOM.

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Inaugural GigaOM RoadMap is first conference to provide a blueprint for how connectedness will influence the way we live, create, consume, and earn. August 24, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – GigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, today announced the launch of its newest conference, GigaOM RoadMap, on the connected consumer. RoadMap will [...]

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GigaOm’s Stacey Higgenbotham outlines five common elements that organizations need to create their own effective “wormhole” communications set-ups.

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Acquia might be too focused a company to make a good IPO candidate, countered Derrick Harris, analyst at GigaOMPro. Harris said an infrastructure provider such as Rackspace Hosting, or a platform company such as Salesforce.com may find a vertically oriented company attractive.

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Interview with Derrick Harris, senior analyst and curator of cloud computing, GigaOM Pro

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VivaVIP The foundation of GigaOM Pro is its 100-strong analyst network, many of whom work for other firms or as independents. This format addresses the big issues of bias and objectivity that plague market research firms.

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GigaOM Senior Writer Mathew Ingram weighs in on the pros and cons of social media, examining the impact of Twitter on Arab Spring as well as on the current London riots. The Arlene Bynon Show Talk Radio AM640: August 9, 2011 by Arlene Bynon

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