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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 [...]

The Crunchies startup awards and party are to be held Jan. 18 in San Francisco. Tonight is the first time you can buy tickets. Some 45,000 votes have already been cast for 100 contenders in 20 startup categories. In addition to announcing the winners at the event, we’ll have a special live performance by the [...]

Our twelve days of Christmas at NewTeeVee came courtesy of four online video creators, two esteemed academics, one venture capitalist, a big media technology decision maker, a video advertising developer, and an online video talent agent. Who needs a partridge in a pear tree when you’ve got luminaries to prognosticate about the future of your [...]

What do we know about GigaOM readers in 2007?
You like Firefox to a degree that far exceeds the general Internet population. According to Google Analytics, 47 percent of our visits this year were made through Firefox, while 40.1 percent were made through Internet Explorer. As for the rest, 8.32 percent of our visits came [...]

Hulu has come a long way from its genesis as a “YouTube killer” pie-in-the-sky idea earlier this year. It survived Om’s “NewCo Wreck Watch” to earn a mea culpa and a “brilliant” assessment from our acerbic founder. But the video site — which features mostly NBC and FOX TV shows in full-length streamable glory — [...]