Om Malik
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Om 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.
Malik graduated from St. Stephens’ College in New Delhi in 1986, with an honors degree in chemistry. He eventually moved to New York.
In 1993, Malik moved to New York City to be a writer at Forbes; he became a senior writer. He was also a senior writer for Red Herring, focusing on the telecommunications sector, and later became a senior writer there. In late 1994, he launched DesiParty.com, an events site for Indian emigrants. That same year, he co-founded the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). In 1995 he helped launch the now-defunct magazine, Masala, and its website Masala.com, a South Asian portal.
In 1997, Malik was on the original team at Forbes.com led by David Churbuck. In 1999 he left Forbes.com to work in the venture capital world, serving as an investment manager at Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific; his stay there lasted only a few months because he decided he preferred being a writer.
In 2000, he moved to San Francisco to become a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine. In 2001, he started technology blog GigaOM.
His first book, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, was released on May 15, 2003. Malik's writings have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Brandweek, and Crain's New York Business.
On June 12, 2006, he announced that he was going to work on GigaOM full-time, although he is still a contributing editor and writes a column for Business 2.0. In addition to GigaOM, he also writes for the blogs "Web Worker Daily" and "Tablatronic."
[edit] See also
- Techcrunch
- ReadWriteWeb
- Richard MacManus
