Marketplace Tech Report Kevin Fitchard discusses the challenges LightSquared is facing in its effort to create a new model for wireless service.
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Marketplace Tech Report Kevin Fitchard discusses the challenges LightSquared is facing in its effort to create a new model for wireless service.
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Press:HereGuests include Engadget’s Tim Stevens, Task Rabbit’s Leah Busque, and author Eric Ries.
Read MoreRyan 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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“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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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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BetaBeat “We think it’s time somebody went after the middle of the pyramid,” says GigaOm CEO Paul Walborsky.
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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.
Read MoreGigaOM 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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The Brian Lehrer ShowOm Malik, founder of the gigaOM network, an online publishing company, and chief blogger for gigaom.com, discusses the success of Kickstarter and other crowd-funding tools–and what brand-new start-ups should think about in terms of funding
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Marketplace Google’s new social networking…thing hasn’t even officially launched yet but it already has, by one estimate, 10 million users.
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Chicago Tribune Facebook and Google are “becoming these all-in-one, unifying communication systems where they absorb email, messaging, IM,” said Michael Wolf, vice president of research at GigaOM Pro.
Read MoreGigaOM’s Ryan Lawler discusses the ups and downs of MoviePass after the company announced it was scrapping plans for a July 4 launch in San Francisco. London in the Afternoon Newstalk 1290 (Ontario, Canada): July, 2011 by Al Coombs
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La Red Innova GigaOM CEO, Paul Walborsky discusses new media business models at La Red Innova.
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Bloomberg Om Malik, founder of the technology blog GigaOM, talks about online music and movie services integrating with Facebook Inc., and the business of high tech blogging
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CNET LinkedIn went public last month and watched its shares soar as high as $122.70 before settling down to $94.25 before the end of the trading day. In another possible cause for celebration, the company will be launching a new button that lets job seekers angle for new jobs straight from their LinkedIn profiles, according to GigaOM.
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Internet Evolution According to a post on GigaOM, Shaq planned this announcement very carefully.
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Gizmodo Now that iCloud is here (and free), all MobileMe subscriptions from the last year, will be free until they expire.
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Reuters Mobile application discovery startup Appsfire closed a $3.6 million funding round from French investors Idinvest, according to a Gigaom report.
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ForbesIn other words, GigaOm, which jumped on the statistic, said, only about 30% of video assets on YouTube make up almost all video views of the views on the site.
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Mobile Computing NewsOf all the arguments I’ve seen on and offline for it, GigaOm gave the best reason, saying the kind of users Twitter was acquiring was as important as the platform itself
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MashableGigaOM has raised $6 million in venture capital funding primarily to build out its premium subscription service, the digital media company announced Wednesday.
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GeekwireMicrosoft made a big bet earlier this month when it gobbled up Skype for $8.5 billion, a move that got some VCs salivating at the prospect of the software giant returning to the M&A scene.
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TimeThis round is to help fuel growth of GigaOm’s research arm, which now has more than 20,000 subscribers and is “growing fast,” says founder Om Malik.
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Business InsiderThis year could see increased M&A activity by well capitalized tech companies that need to spur growth, according to a new report by GigaOm Pro.
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VentureBeatBack when the San Francisco-based company had “only” raised around $8 million, I already found the funding “kind of remarkable”
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TimeThe $6 million new round, led by Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) Ventures with existing investors Alloy Ventures and True Ventures taking part, will go toward a major expansion of its subscription research business and events, along with building its editorial ranks.
Read MoreLeading business and technology media company will use funding to expand its rapidly growing GigaOM Pro subscription-based research business, extend editorial leadership, and build its portfolio of industry-leading conferences
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TimeAward-winning tech journalist and founder of super hot tech blog GigaOM, Om Malik, discusses the state of tech affairs.
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ReadWriteWebFollowing SendGrid’s price adjustments yesterday, Tropo today announced that it’s lowering its cost for sending SMS messages to 1 cent per message.
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The Washington PostJason Maynard, an analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, and Om Malik, founder of GigaOM, talk about Microsoft Corp.’s agreement to buy Skype Technologies SA for $8.5 billion.
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