Tech Blog GigaOM Shifts Focus to Premium Content

May 25, 2011 No Comments

GigaOM has raised $6 million in venture capital funding primarily to build out its premium subscription service, the digital media company announced Wednesday.Although most think of GigaOM as a consumer-facing technology blog, the company is increasingly shifting its focus to its B2B premium content product, GigaOM Pro, which offers in-depth research and analysis in five [...]

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Make.Money.Slow : The Bitcoin Experiment

May 21, 2011 No Comments

Bitcoin. Oh, man, where to begin. Its Hype-O-Meter got cranked to 11 this week, and breathless histrionics are everywhere. Death and Taxes called this new currency “a seismic event“; Adam Cohen says it’s nothing but a giant scam; Jason Calacanis calls it “the most dangerous project we’ve ever seen“; and they’re all completely wrong… Tweet [...]

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For Green Data Centers, Tech Firms Pick up Where LEED Left off

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

What do the growth of cloud-based services, online video and an ever-increasing appetite for digital media have in common? They all require power-hungry data centers — and lots of them. It’s a challenge that hasn’t escaped the IT industry; lately Microsoft and Apple have made some notable hires that reflect the critical nature of energy-efficient [...]

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Facebook Bows to Canada Over Privacy Concerns

Aug 26, 2009 No Comments

Facebook has been in hot water with Canada over how it protects user data, and the country’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, is set to announce at a news conference tomorrow that the company plans to comply with the government’s privacy concerns. Last month, Stoddart said that the social network breached Canada’s privacy law by holding [...]

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