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Tech media eulogized one of its own on Tuesday when GigaOm abruptly announced it had run out of money and was ceasing operations after eight years. GigaOm had a big-name founder, blogger Om Malik, and loads of money ($22 million) from VC backers, and was seemingly on the march, snapping up PaidContent in 2012. According to…
Begin: WordPress Article Content GigaOm, a tech blog founded by journalist turned VC Om Malik, is shutting down after finding itself unable to repay creditors. The site has been serving up tech news (and has served as a direct competitor to TechCrunch) since 2006.Initially Twitter chatter backed up reports of the site’s demise. “Gigaom is…
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington on stage with Gigaom founder Om Malik in February. Money troubles have forced the pioneering tech blog Gigaom to shutter. “Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time,” the website said in a statement. “All operations have ceased.” The news site didn’t say when its financial…
GigaOm, the 9-year-old tech blog based in San Francisco, will shut down due to a lack of financial resources, a senior editor there confirmed Monday. The site, which was launched by tech blogger Om Malik in 2006, is one of several sites covering Silicon Valley and the tech industry. It also produces a number of…
Gigaom, a pioneering technology blog that became a fixture in Silicon Valley and claimed 6.4 million monthly readers, abruptly announced on Monday that it would shut down. The site, which was founded in 2006, seemed to have been stopped dead in its tracks — earlier Monday, it had been posting articles, most recently on Apple….
According to a spate of tweets from its staffers and also confirmation from sources, iconic tech blog Gigaom is closing down. I reached out to the online publication’s high-profile creator Om Malik and he declined comment for the present. “Not now dude,” he texted me. Well, then, for now, here’s what I could glean: The…
Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an…
New Media Disrupted: GigaOm Web Sites Suddenly Stop Publishing Posted by Tom Foremski – March 9, 2015 Above, at the recent Crunchies Awards, Om Malik (right) is told by Mike Arrington, founder of news site Techcrunch, that there’s far more money in investing in startups than there is in publishing. The management of GigaOm, the…
Facebook is a big and maddening place. Antiviral wants to make it better. To that end, we’re putting together a comprehensive guide to the new, bad, weird, and bullshit “news sites” that are appearing on your feed. Here’s part one: “Satire.” Ever since Facebook completed its evolution from a Friendster ripoff to an internet-transforming Elder…