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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

We Live in The Age of Conversation Overload

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

I can deal with information overload — if I didn’t get to read that special article everyone is sharing then no big deal. But conversation overload is an entirely different thing. As a journalist I have trouble keeping up with the conversations …

Color And Cuil Headline FailCon Event

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Coming up October 24 in San Francisco is the next FailCon— a conference that celebrates failure and its lessons — much like Silicon Valley where more than 90% of ventures fail. The organizers Cass Phillipps and Diane Loviglio just added Bill Nguyen, …

RDIO CEO: “Spotify is a Unicorn.”

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

As Spotify, the hugely popular European online music service prepares for its imminent US launch, RDIO, a relatively new online music service, recently hosted a media roundtable at the swanky Boulevard Restaurant, in San Francisco, with top journalists from Wall Street Journal, …

Matt Mullenweg On The Future Of Wordress

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has revolutionized website publishing. WordPress began its life as free, open-source blogging software which quickly evolved into a general-purpose …

Leaving Silicon Valley…

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Leaving Silicon Valley — I highly recommend it. I just got back from a week in London, speaking at an Omnicom conference and then a week in Warsaw (which was excellent). And I’m finding it difficult to get back into the swing …

Cisco Criticized for China Surveillance Project

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems is helping the Chinese government build a massive surveillance system that will include more than 500,000 cameras. The Wall Street Journal reported that the “Peaceful Chongqing” project gets around US restrictions on US companies helping repressive foreign governments because it …

Startup Launch: MyTab Offers Simple Group Travel Gifting

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

I’ve been consulting with Heddi Cundle and her new startup MyTab, which offers a very simple way friends and family can help fund travel for each other. MyTab takes the pain away from finding birthday, graduation, or anniversary gifts. The site is …

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