Om Malik

Question Everything

Facebook collects social information and uses it in the most unsocial way possible.

– Om Malik, speaking to @AaronCohen’s #nethistory class at NYU, as tweeted by Jackie Widmann

Jobs-Like

Not because Bezos has copied anything Jobs did, but because he has not. What he’s done that is Jobs-like is doggedly pursue, year after year, iteration after iteration, a vision unlike that of any other company — all in the name of making customers happy.

– John Gruber, in agreement with Om Malik that Jeff Bezos is the inheritor of Steve Jobs’s crown

Rafat Ali 2.0: Meet Skift, the Travel Industry’s Version of PaidContent

Peter Kafka in Media on July 30, 2012 at 5:50 am PT

What do you do after you build and sell a pioneering digital media start-up? Take two years off, and start building another media star-tup.

Forum

The “B” Word

Beth Callaghan in Forum on April 27, 2012 at 1:49 pm PT

Pundits and others are using the B word — bubble — more than ever. Is it time to stop, or will this gain even more traction in 2012?

News Byte

Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai Leaving

Peter Kafka in Mobile on March 4, 2012 at 3:26 pm PT

Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is leaving the company, three years after launching the check-in service. Sevaldurai says he’s “not sure about my exact next steps” but will remain on the company’s board. Foursquare investor Spark Capital is reportedly buying employee stock, and Selvadurai and co-founder Dennis Crowley have previously sold shares in an earlier funding round. Gigaom’s Om Malik reported Selvadurai’s departure earlier.

Is GigaOM Buying paidContent?

Peter Kafka in Media on February 6, 2012 at 3:39 am PT

Om Malik won’t say. But we should find out soon.

Pirates! Rupert Murdoch Rails About Obama, Google and Silicon Valley

Peter Kafka in Media on January 14, 2012 at 7:14 pm PT

Looks like the News Corp. CEO is getting the hang of this Twitter thing: Perfect for stirring up trouble.

Viral Video: Om Nom Nom Nom

Kara Swisher in Media on August 16, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

Here’s This Week in Tech, or TWiT, in which tattoos, cupcakes and — oh, yeah — tech was discussed.

Video: Om Talks About $6 Million Giga-Funding

Kara Swisher in Media on May 26, 2011 at 1:14 pm PT

Yesterday, I slogged through the rain to the downtown San Francisco HQ of the GigaOM Network to visit with tech blogging pioneer Om Malik and talk about the latest $6 million in funding for the tech news and analysis site.

Confirmed: Microsoft Will Announce Acquisition of Skype Tomorrow Morning

Kara Swisher in News on May 9, 2011 at 8:14 pm PT

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier tonight that Microsoft–in what would be its most aggressive acquisition in the digital space–was zeroing in on buying Skype for $8.5 billion all in. Sources told BoomTown tonight that the deal for the online telephony and video communications giant is actually done and will be announced early tomorrow morning.