1. Say Hello to the New New GigaOM
    By Om Malik | November 23, 2009 | 67 Comments
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    By Om Malik | November 22, 2009 | 74 Comments

Former Facebookers Get $9M for Workforce Telepathy

By Stacey Higginbotham November 24, 2009 No Comments

Asana, a year-old stealthy startup co-founded by two Facebook alumni, Justin Rosenstein and Dustin Moskovitz, said today it’s raised $9 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. While intentionally vague about how the Asana software will work, the two are… Read More »

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EU Closes the Books on Qualcomm Probe

By Colin Gibbs November 24, 2009 No Comments

Qualcomm has put another regulatory challenge in the rear-view mirror as the European Commission dropped a 4-year antitrust investigation into the chip maker. The six companies that spurred the probe have withdrawn their complaints or are planning to do so. Read More »

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GigaOM Research

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The No. 1 Way Chrome OS Will Woo Consumers to the Cloud
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What Our Compute Demand Looks Like

By Stacey Higginbotham November 24, 2009 No Comments

The servers running our web applications, crunching numbers or serving up ads aren’t all in company-owned data centers — many are in co-location facilities, which have grown by 1.66 million square feet of floor space since 2008, an increase of 9 percent, according to a report… Read More »

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Tesla IPO: A Test for VC Model in the Auto Biz

By Josie Garthwaite November 23, 2009 3 Comments

If and when Tesla goes public, it could become the biggest and possibly the first public offering for a U.S. car company since Ford Motor’s IPO more than 50 years ago. It will also offer a glimpse at the role IPOs will play in the green… Read More »

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Analyst: Femtocells Aren’t Dead Yet!

By Stacey Higginbotham November 23, 2009 6 Comments

Here at GigaOM we’ve pretty much decided that the femtocell market is dead. At the very least, it’s significantly smaller than what was forecast (GigaOM Pro, subscription required) when these tiny base stations for the home first started garnering attention last year. However, analysts at Deutsche… Read More »

Hulu’s New Embed Policy Can Only Hurt It

By Liz Gannes November 23, 2009 6 Comments

Two-year-old Hulu, which has quickly become Americans’ preferred method of consuming TV online, is now blocking startups from embedding its video library. But while Hulu is now (mostly) unfriendly to startup video aggregators, it’s still sharing its videos with its corporate parents’ friends: the big web… Read More »

What Broadband Competition Looks Like in Harlem

By Ryan Lawler November 23, 2009 4 Comments

My building only had one broadband provider until recently, as Stacey reported last week. But that’s changing, as Verizon FiOS just became available in my building, and the company is making a huge push to get people connected. So for those of you in other areas… Read More »

Can Ads Help In-Flight Wi-Fi Take Off?

By Colin Gibbs November 23, 2009 3 Comments

Airlines are pushing hard to bring in-flight Wi-Fi to their customers, but there’s little evidence consumers are willing to spend much to be connected in the air. So perhaps airlines should be looking to advertisers to fund their services. In-flight Wi-Fi faces several challenges, from expensive… Read More »

Google Maps Navigation Comes to Older Android Phones

By Om Malik November 23, 2009 2 Comments

Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation (beta) for older devices that use Android OS version 1.6 or higher. It debuted as a free feature on Android 2.0 (Droid) handsets a few weeks ago and was received with much enthusiasm. Now devices such as the… Read More »

AT&T Matches Verizon’s Prepaid Data Plans

By Stacey Higginbotham November 23, 2009 4 Comments

AT&T today introduced a prepaid mobile broadband product that exactly matches the pricing of similar plans launched earlier this month by Verizon Wireless. I was skeptical of Verizon’s offering because it’s pretty pricey, and I’m not sold on AT&T’s either, but my colleague Kevin Tofel points… Read More »

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