10 Facts About Om Malik

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Om Prakash Malik is an Indian-American web and technology writer.

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Om Malik is the founder and a former senior writer for GigaOM.

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Om Malik graduated from St Stephens' College in New Delhi in 1986, with an honors degree in chemistry.

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Om Malik started out as a young writer in India, working with Delhi-based Newsmen Features, where he specialised in lifestyle features.

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Om Malik moved to New York City in 1993 to be a writer for India Abroad and then for Forbes.

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Om Malik was a senior writer for Red Herring, focusing on the telecommunications sector, and later became a senior writer there.

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Om Malik's writings have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Brandweek, and Crain's New York Business.

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Om Malik announced on June 12,2006, that he was going to work on GigaOM full-time, although he continued to be a contributing editor and had a regular column in Business 2.0 until its demise in October 2007.

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From July 2007 to March 2008, Om Malik hosted the podcast The GigaOm Show on Revision3 with Joyce Kim, which focused on technology and business.

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Om Malik ended the podcast to focus on other things, among them his health.