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'''Gigaom''' is a
==History==
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In June 2006, he left his day job at [[Business 2.0]] magazine to work on Gigaom full-time.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/03/10/gigaom_shuts_down_why_did_om_malik_s_tech_blog_run_out_of_money.html | title=GigaOm Was Universally Respected. Too Bad Respect Doesn't Pay the Bills.| author=Will Oremus | publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] | date=March 10, 2015}}</ref>
The site originally integrated several other technology-related blogs and services into its network.
Since 2006, Gigaom has organized technology conferences under the banner Gigaom Events.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gigaom.com/webinars/|title=Webinars – Gigaom|website=gigaom.com|access-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref><ref name="rsomaiya"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://venturebeat.com/2009/09/10/gigaoms-mobilize-09-the-100-word-version/ | title=GigaOM's Mobilize 09 - the 100-word version | author=PAUL BOUTIN | publisher=[[VentureBeat]] | date=September 10, 2009 | access-date=September 10, 2009}}</ref> Former Gigaom employees founded Structure, an independent conference business in order to host some of the events. For its first conference, Structure gave free tickets to those who lost money on tickets to Gigaom's canceled conference in March and sponsors who had sponsored the canceled event got 90 percent of the money they lost to sponsor Structure's first conference.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/how-gigaom-died-and-then-came-back-to-life-again-kind-of/ | title=How Gigaom died and then came back to life again, kind of | author=LAURA HAZARD OWEN | publisher=[[Nieman Foundation]] | date=September 23, 2015}}</ref>
In 2008, Malik appointed Paul Walborsky as CEO of the company<ref name="Company Blog">{{cite web | url=https://gigaom.com/2008/09/02/we-have-a-new-ceo/ | title=We Have a New CEO! | author=Om Malik | publisher=GigaOM | date=September 2, 2008 | access-date=February 26, 2017 | archive-date=June 27, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627235411/https://gigaom.com/2008/09/02/we-have-a-new-ceo/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> and in 2009, the company launched GigaOM Pro, a subscription-based technology research service.<ref>{{cite web
On February 8, 2012, Gigaom acquired [[PaidContent]] through the acquisition of ContentNext Media.<ref>
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==See also==
* [[TechRepublic]]
* [[Boy Genius Report]]
* [[Gizmodo]]
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* {{Official website|http://gigaom.com/}}
*[https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aarchive.nytimes.com%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fexternal%2Fgigaom%2F site:archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/]
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