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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

The West Coast Corridor: Disruptive Creation On The Fault Line

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

California has by far the largest number of tech workers. According to TechAmerica Foundation’s Cyberstates 2010 report, it has 993,000 tech workers, and its largest center is Silicon Valley. But it’s not just Silicon Valley that impresses me. If you fly north …

HerWay: Online Dating Where Women Rule

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

This strikes me as a very good idea, an online dating site where the women are in control: HerWay.com. According to HerWay, it is at least five times more likely that online daters will successfully connect when a woman initiates contact. By …

This is Big: IE9 Demos Graphics Acceleration … for the Web.

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

Microsoft previewed Internet Explorer 9 this morning, which has strong support for HTML5 and makes use of hardware acceleration to dramatically improve the performance of video and animation. Microsoft executives said that web browsers normally only use about 10% of the power …

Palo Alto is Migrating to San Francisco

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that tech firms have become a chief driver for office space in San Francisco. Tech firms making S.F. new home Many of the tenants are swelling homegrown businesses like Twitter, while others are relocating from Silicon Valley …

Iceland Lacks the Bandwidth to be a New Media Haven

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

Iceland’s parliament has unanimously agreed to pass the strongest media freedom laws called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. Nieman Journalism Lab reports: But although the legislative package sounds very encouraging from a freedom of expression point of view, it’s not clear what …

Game Mechanics in the Enterprise

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

Last week I caught up with the folks at CrowdCast, a provider of Q&A marketplaces for enterprises. CrowdCast secured a $6m follow financing round led by Menlo Ventures in addition to a $3m series A round this time last year. CrowdCast is …

Broadvision: Boldly Re-Inventing Itself with Clearvale

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

Broadvision recently announced a collaborative business platform, Clearvale, and a partnership with Softbank, a major Japanese telecommunications company. The move is part of Broadvision’s attempts to reinvent itself and reverse a long decline in revenues. The company was once one of the …

Fair Trade Electronics: Why We Need It and Who Will Give It To Us

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

Patrick Mattimore, a fellow at the Institute for Analytic Journalism, recently published the following article on China’s People’s Daily Online, headlined: Media badly misplaying Foxconn suicides. Taiwanese-owned Foxconn has had seven suicides this year. That sounds like a lot, but the firm …

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