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Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004. She currently covers the web for GigaOM. In 2006, she founded NewTeeVee, a GigaOM Network site that is now the preeminent source for news and analysis about the intersection of entertainment and technology. She graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in linguistics and started her career as a reporter at Red Herring.

Disclosures and conflicts of interest: Liz's husband does some contract work for Facebook. Neither of them are shareholders in the company.

Recent Articles by Liz Gannes

September 6, 2010

Ev Williams: Twitter Can Reduce Information Overload

At its core, Twitter is a "recipient-driven medium," said Chief Executive Evan Williams in a public conversation tonight in San Francisco. What does that mean? ...

July 27, 2010

Quora: Striving for an Ideal Online Society

Since launching Quora at the beginning of this year as a sort of thinking person's Yahoo! Answers, former Facebook employees Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo have ...

July 22, 2010

Fred Wilson on Apple ('Evil') and Facebook

Union Square Ventures' managing partner, Fred Wilson, had plenty of blunt opinions on the tech industry Wednesday at the Geo-Loco conference in San Francisco. But he ...

July 20, 2010

The Web Database Company Google Just Bought

Google (GOOG) is in the process of acquiring ITA Software, an airfare information provider that brings the company into the realm of vertical travel search. It also ...

May 18, 2010

Microsoft's New Hotmail Is No Knockout

Hotmail, the world's leading Web e-mail provider, has coasted for years with barely a feature update. Microsoft is finally planning to issue a major release later this...

March 1, 2010

How Much is a Tap on Twitter's Firehose Worth?

Twitter on Monday gave seven real-time search and discovery companies, ranging from "funded startups to part-time, one-man operations," access to 100% of its tweets. ...

February 27, 2010

How Digg Found a Way to Make Money

Social networking behavior—endless repetitive page views, unvetted content—isn't a great fit for traditional forms of online advertising. Early attempts to bring ...

September 15, 2009

Veoh's Court Win Buoys Online Video Sites

Veoh had a good day in court on Monday, with U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz saying the online video site's copyright policies are in the clear with regards to a ...

August 30, 2009

What NBC Has Learned About Making Web Content

"For a long time, people have been moving away from TV. We're trying to reaggregate that audience," said NBC.com (GE) general manager Steve Andrade. He was speaking on...

July 30, 2009

Parkour: From YouTube Phenom to a Company

The incredibly athletic and gymnastic urban sports of parkour and freerunning are perhaps 15 years old. They are individualistic, grassroots, and often noncompetitive....