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.
Google’s self-driving car project rolls on, and the company has a cute new prototype design to show off that doesn’t look anything like a conventional car. Read more »
Join us around 5pm PT for a live blog covering the appearances of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google co-founder Sergey Brin — in that order — at the Code Conference… Read more »
Meet Jonathan Vanian, who will be chasing enterprise startups and chronicling what it takes to be a webscale company out of our San Francisco office. Read more »
Apple was the tech story of the last decade. And the company’s public relations department, led by Katie Cotton, took advantage of page-view oriented media businesses to control Apple’s message like… Read more »
The internet has profoundly changed the world. But if you were to design it in 2014, knowing now what we know about how much we’ve all come to depend on this… Read more »
Computers became way more productive when operating systems allowed computers to run different programs without having to be re-jiggered. Palantir thinks the same thing is about to happen to data. Read more »
Here you’ll find links to our coverage of Structure Data 2014 as well as a link to the live stream of the event, which starts at 9am ET in New York. Read more »
If Silicon Valley is too far away, and San Francisco is too expensive, there’s only one alternative. Oakland, which is both attractive in its own right and in need of financial… Read more »