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Why do media companies struggle to produce anything of value?

It’s the absolute best economy the United States has seen in decades, and yet, you wouldn’t know it from looking at the employee rolls at major news and media outlets. Thousands of journalists hav

EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion

An EC-exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino traveled to Florida this week to talk with Tim Cook about Apple’s developer education initiatives and a

Why Om Malik thinks ‘the VC subsidized life is over’

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

Mode raises $3M Series A to put sensor data in the cloud

True Ventures has led the $3 million round for Mode, a real-time database that gives companies instant access to sensor data. GigaOm founder and True Ventures partner Om Malik has joined the startup

The TechCrunch Podcast: Silicon Valley’s low emotional EQ and, no, not Zuck for president

Om Malik, the venerable entrepreneur, writer and now investor, joined TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino for our second episode of The TechCrunch Podcast. In 2006, Malik turned his personal

Gillmor Gang: Notification Rap

The Gillmor Gang — Dennis Crowley, Om Malik, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Monday, November 2, 2015. The Gang of Four reprise the Notifications Summit and fill in some of the blan

Storehouse Raises $7M From SherpaVentures And Others To Move Its Story Beyond The iPad

Storehouse is a company we’ve written about a bit before. It’s a beautifully constructed iPad app that lets you build stories on the fly from text, video and images. It features one of the best vi

Om Malik Joins True Ventures, Steps Down At Tech Site Gigaom

Om Malik, founder of venture blog <a href="https://techcrunch.com/search/Gigaom">Gigaom</a>, is stepping down as contributing writer and will become a partner with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.

Data Is Not Killing Creativity, It’s Just Changing How We Tell Stories

I keep seeing this topic push up about how data is affecting creativity. Some say we are losing our sense of narration and storytelling. It’s not this at all. We are just experiencing a shift th

Looks Like Our Friends Over At GigaOm Just Raised Another $2.5 Million

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/gigaom.png" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/om-malik">Om Malik</a>, well-respected journalist and founder of techn

Enterprise Communications Software Socialcast Secures $1.4 million in Series A Funding

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/20281v1-max-250x250-215x52.jpg" width="215" height="52" /> <a href="http://www.socialcast.com">Socialcast,</a> a social communication SaaS pr

For God So Loved The World He Created Building B?

I’m not a religious man, per se, but let’s just assume that I believe in some sort of cosmic energy force that connects everyone and everything in space and time and that, for the sake of

Writers Write "B-Logs," Get Money

USA Today, that bastion of hard news, is covering a new fad popular with the kids called “B-logging.” They talk about two “b-loggers,” Om Malley and Mike Orvington, who used to

Five Ways The iPhone Will Change The Wireless Industry

Om Malik has been eyeing Steve Jobs’ recent keynote at WWDC ’07 and has put together a list of ways the iPhone will change the wireless industry. Om brings up some important points that we

Want Some Free Joost?

Om Malik and his blog New Tee Vee are giving away 100 invites to Joost for Mac users. Those of you rockin’ an Intel-based Mac can register for Joost and download the alpha version of the program