Tom is a veteran technology journalist, writer, and editor who has never worked in any other medium than the internet. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Gigaom’s editorial mission. Tom has written and edited stories about nearly everything important to us as a tech media company — enterprise computing, the rise of mobile, and consumer internet companies — at one time or another over twelve years at IDG, CNET, and paidContent before joining Gigaom in 2012 and becoming executive editor in 2013. Tom holds a business degree with a concentration in marketing from Boston College, and has appeared as an industry expert on media outlets including CNBC, ABC, CBS, Revision 3, NPR, TWiT, and several others.
It’s a cloud, cloud world. But making pragmatic choices about deploying IT infrastructure sometimes involves embracing the more cost effective cloud, and sometimes requires some old-fashioned bare metal. Read more »
Mac and iOS developers migrate annually to Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference to see what’s in store for the coming year. We’ll have a running live-blog during the Monday morning keynote at… Read more »
Nobody likes the taxman. The latest chapter in the fundamental disagreement between Netflix and Comcast over who should pay for the improvement of the internet unfolded Thursday. Read more »
“We’re not cutting prices,” Dropbox CEO Drew Houston declared Wednesday. This despite the fact that web giants with money to burn like Google and Microsoft are undercutting his service on pricing. Read more »
Sprint and T-Mobile are probably going to join forces at some point down the road. If that happens, Softbank’s Masayoshi Son thinks that his new acquisition and T-Mobile won’t just compete… Read more »
Comcast’s CEO was not exactly on friendly ground Wednesday, as tech insiders pushed him to explain his pending takeover of Time Warner Cable and his commitment to fast broadband. Read more »
If you have the attention span of a caffeinated three-year-old, the trademark “State of the Internet” presentation given by Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker is probably right up your alley. Meeker packed… Read more »