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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

News Without a Profit Model? Doomed.

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

I’m not a supporter of philanthropic non-profit news ventures because I believe that we need to find a news business model that is self-sustaining and doesn’t rely on handouts from rich people or fundraising. If it generates a reasonable profit it will …

UberVU and the Romanian Geeks

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

I had an excellent morning, drinking coffee at the Apollo cafe, and chatting with the co-founders of uberVU, a London-based startup. Vladimir Oane and Dragos Ilinca are young serial entrepreneurs on their second startup. I missed them on my trip with the …

M6S Launches an Attention API at DEMOspring

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

One of my favorite entrepreneurs is Barak Hachamov, co-founder of My6Sense, the developer of a very interesting iPhone application that manages your content feeds, feeding you only the content that matters to you. It’s a great application, but I don’t use my …

Russia Invests Not in Journalism But Propaganda

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

Robert Andrews is puzzled. Why Are Russians Spending Like Mad To Save Journalism? He writes: The latest – after last year buying France-Soir, the country’s smallest daily, for €50 million, shipbuilder’s son Alexander Pugachyov is now spending a further €20 million on …

When Will Techmeme Start Originating Content?

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

Gabe Rivera’s Techmeme is the news reader of choice for much of the Silicon Valley tech-setters — more so than Techcrunch because it has a much wider selection of articles. I often see Gabe at press events, he has a press pass …

Bad Ideas, Part Two: UK is Pulling an FTC Blogger Regs Maneuver

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI16 YEARS AGO

This is astounding: ClickZ in the UK reports: U.K. to Regulate Social Network Marketing – ClickZ Marketers and brands using social networks will soon find their activities in those spaces regulated by the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority, following recommendations submitted by the …

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