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Om Perkash Malik (born September 29, 1966 in New Delhi, India) is an Indian-American technology writer. He is the founder of Giga Omni Media, Inc. and executive editor for the technology blog GigaOM. As well as a host on a Revision3 weekly web-business centric podcast, The GigaOM show

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The State of Cloud: Startup Heroku Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

Heroku is adding about 1,000 apps to its platform every week and sales are growing at a rapid clip, Sebastian told me. But he declined to share any revenue specifics, despite my repeated requests, which tells me that they’re still a ways off from being ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  23 Nov 2009

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Should Page Speed Influence Google PageRank?

Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that the speed at which web pages are available might become a factor ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Michael Jackson

AdMob Data Reveals Android’s Growth, Device Market Share

* HTC has taken an early lead, thanks to availability of three different devices. * Motorola Droid launched on November 6 already represented 24 percent of all Android requests in AdMob’s network worldwide even though the device is available only in ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AdMob,  Motorola, Inc.

AOL Reveals Lame New Look & Logo

Why such a visceral reaction? Perhaps because I grew up with the old AOL (all caps) and am mad at change — a malady normally associated with aging. Jokes aside, the new logo fails to capture what is going to be a smaller, nimbler AOL, one that is ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: America Online,  GigaOM,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

TripIt Launches Android App as Beta

TripIt, a travel aggregation service that is currently offered as application on the iPhone and Blackberry is now available as a beta app for Google’s Android platform and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just like us, our colleagues at ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Skype CEO Outlines Platform Ambitions, Hiring Plans

With the spin-out from eBay complete, its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled, Skype is looking to the future where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. And that means thinking about the ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skype,  eBay Inc.,  Niklas Zennstrom,  Janus Friis

Amex Buys Revolution Money for $300 Million

American Express, the company well known for overpriced charge cards, is buying Ted Leonsis and Steve Case’s Revolution Money for $300 million. Leonsis shared this information on his blog. Amex wants to use Revolution Money to build a next-generation ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Case,  PayPal

How Much Money Did Joyent Really Raise?

Joyent isn’t a mere service provider, but it has actually built a software competency which makes it one of the strong contenders in the cloud computing market, especially as large enterprises look to build private clouds. Joyent has been aggressively ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  David Young,  Microsoft Corporation

Norwest Closes $1.2 Billion Venture Fund

Haque’s track record is a mile long. In the last bubble, he rose to prominence with the mega-billion dollar sales of Cerent (to Cisco), Siara (to Redback) and several other telecom and chip companies. Norwest, which has been investing for about 48 ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  18 Nov 2009

Why imeem Really Sold Out

This morning news broke that MySpace, the second-largest social network that’s currently reinventing itself as a music destination, was buying imeem, a free online music service that has been remixed (and remade) more times that ’90s dance anthem “Keep ...

From OM MALIK, GigaOM,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: TechCrunch,  Warner Brothers,  Viacom, Inc.,  Dalton

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