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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

New Revenue Opportunities for Newspapers: Teaching

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI14 YEARS AGO

Foremski’s Take: The Guardian newspaper’s plans to offer courses in digital media production is an important development and one that should be followed by US newspapers. It would provide much needed revenues to many struggling media businesses. [Every Company Is A Media …

Incapsula Report: More than Half of Website Visitors are Machines

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI14 YEARS AGO

Incapsula, a provider of cloud-based security for web sites, released a study today showing that 51% of web site traffic is automated software programs, and the majority is potentially damaging, — automated exploits from hackers, spies, scrapers, and spammers. The company says …

Infographic: Active UK Users of Social Media Platforms

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

My recent article about the true size of social media platforms has prompted a lot of people to examine how many real people are followers or friends, and there has been some interesting additional data made available. Social media agency Umpf released …

Is Skype a Social Network?

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Surely Microsoft’s Skype should be counted as a social network. It fulfills many of the same functions that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. You can set a status ‘mood’ message, you can text message, use it as a group chat system, you can …

Google’s M&A Chief Says Deal Focus Has Changed

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI15 YEARS AGO

Google made 79 acquisitions last year, mostly small companies and mostly for their engineering talent. The largest acquisition was Motorola Mobility, a $12.5 billion deal. This year, the search giant expects to focus on smaller numbers of deals in strategic areas such …

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