Mathew covers media in all its forms — social and otherwise — as well as web culture and related issues. He is an award-winning journalist who has spent the past 15 years writing about business, technology and new media as a reporter, columnist and blogger. Prior to joining Gigaom, he was a blogger and technology writer for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, and was also the paper’s first online Communities Editor. Mathew is one of the founders of mesh, Canada’s leading web conference.
Emerson Spartz started creating viral content websites when he was 12, and now he runs a company that specializes in understanding how content spreads, and why — something more media companies… Read more »
The market for grocery services that deliver food to your door — a market that for many investors is still synonymous with the worst excesses of the tech bubble of the… Read more »
Many Twitter users found themselves unable to log in to the service on Sunday night, due to what appeared to be an authentication error — an issue that seemed to affect… Read more »
Several prominent security researchers and analysts say they aren’t convinced by the FBI’s evidence that North Korea was supposedly the mastermind behind the hack attack on Sony and the release of… Read more »
Facebook is moving quickly to try and cement its position in video with a new deal to show NFL highlight clips and split the ad revenue — which comes on the… Read more »
If a Citigroup analyst is right about the amount of revenue that Instagram will be able to generate from advertising over the next couple of years, Facebook’s acquisition of the company… Read more »
Sony is threatening Twitter with a lawsuit unless it removes accounts and tweets that have posted screenshots or excerpts from its hacked emails, but the legal basis for such threats is… Read more »
It’s easy to focus on the negatives in media — the mistakes, the downsizing at traditional journalistic outlets, etc. — but there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the… Read more »
The teenagers behind two of the most popular photography accounts on Twitter — Earth Pics and History in Pics — have used their viral success to start a media company aimed… Read more »
It seems as though there are more mistakes, hoaxes and journalistic failures than there have ever been, but former Reuters media critic Jack Shafer argues they are just easier to spot… Read more »