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Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski is a former Financial Times journalist. He has been covering Silicon Valley since his arrival from London in 1984. In May 2004 he became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper to make a living as a journalist blogger, publishing Silicon Valley Watcher - reporting on the business and culture of innovation.

Tom’s understanding of diverse technologies and his access to global business leaders, make him one of the most prominent media influencers in the technology world.

Latest from Tom Foremski

Color: A Quick Review

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

It’s a shame that the $41m funding of Color Labs has dominated the news about Color, a radically different type of mobile app, because that’s what’s interesting. Color shares photos with everyone around you that has the app on their iPhone or …

Is Curation a Flash in the Pan?

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

It’s clear that the interest of Internet users can be very fickle indeed. Sites and services can have sudden boosts of popularity and then pretty much disappear from view. I’m thinking of Quora as one example. But also Digg, MySpace and many …

Color: A $41m Bet on a Radical Social Mobile App

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Last week I was in Palo Alto, drenched by torrential rains but happy to catchup with serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen and hear about his remarkable new startup Color, which today launched its iPhone and Android based mobile app. Color has raised $41 …

Here’s Why Google Should Bid For T-Mobile

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Foremski’s Take: The potential acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T [T] is bad news for Silicon Valley with its strong focus on the consumer: search, social networks, and a spectrum of cloud based services. The reason is that the distributors of all that …

Curation Can Create A Snapshot Of Our Digital Lives

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

As our lives become increasingly digital curation tools can provide a good way to document our activities, capturing a snapshot of key events and moments. For example, the South by South West Interactive conference that is winding down in Austin, Texas attracted …

Craigslist Planning Big Expansion?

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

There was an interesting tidbit in Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales on MarketWatch this week: Another recent move was by Craigslist, which had long occupied a Victorian in the mostly residential Inner Sunset neighborhood. The online classified ads firm, which was started as …

Zediva: Rent A DVD Player + Movie Online for $2

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Zediva launched today, a service that allows you to rent and watch newly released DVD movies online at the low price of $2 each. This is about half-the price of other services and it includes movies that might not be available online …

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