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Want tips on how to move to the Valley, take funding, and flip your startup for $75 million in under two years? Watch this week’s episode of “The GigaOM Show” with StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. With a little prodding from startup lawyer and co-host Joyce Kim, Camp gets down to the nitty-gritty of stock options [...]

In addition to unveiling a movie rental service for iTunes and an updated version of Apple TV (with a lower price), Steve Jobs in his Macworld keytnote today announced the MacBook Air, which at a maximum thickness of 0.76 inches (and 3 lbs), is the world’s thinnest notebook.

No, that’s not “The View” you’re watching! It’s “the GigaOM Show,” this week with two female hosts, a female guest, and some touchy-feely subject matter. Given Om’s recent heart attack and the loop it threw us for, the team went with [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM’s newest staff writer. Stacey joined us last week — of all the times to start a job! But anyone who willingly tackles the future of the semiconductor industry as her first post has already passed the sink-or-swim test, don’t you think?
Stacey [...]

Mozilla Corp., maker of the Firefox browser, has promoted COO John Lilly to chief executive, replacing long-time CEO Mitchell Baker, who’s been with the open source project since the Netscape days. Baker will stay on as chairman of the Mozilla Corp. and the Mozilla Foundation that controls it. She will also maintain her more informal [...]

Career site Monster Worldwide has bought social networking startup Affinity Labs for $61 million in cash, the two companies said today. A jobs site getting into business networking makes a little more sense than, for example, Cisco buying Tribe.net and Five Across, but the purchase price seems rather high. Affinity was just getting off the [...]