GigaOM

     Creator of GigaOM, Om Malik, first started a personal blog under his name and later founded this company in 2006. He left his job at Business 2.0 magazine to start this company. It has now grown into a million visit blog in per month. The posts are usually about start-ups, trending and emerging technologies, and other topics related to technologies. The headquarters is based in San Francisco, United States and currently run by Knowingly Corp. It has a massive network of blog posts which are organized and separated into different topics like Apple; Business and Finance; Computing Devices and Electronics; Gaming; Google; Broadband, Cable, and Internet; and more.

     It has a massive number of visitors to its blogs each month; 6.5 million unique monthly visitors and 2 million mobile reach per month. It is famous on social media too, with more than 300,000 followers on Twitter, near 50,000 on LinkedIn, and more than 100,000 followers on its Facebook page.

     It hosts technological conferences under the Gigaom events banner. It also launched its subscription-based technology research service called GigaOM Pro in 2009. It serves two primary consumers; innovative technology vendors and business leaders who want to study the market, competition, latest technological trends, and changes. It also acquired PaidContent, an online media hub of digital world news, in 2012.

     In March 2015, the site was shut down for a while because it couldn’t pay its creditors. However, Knowingly Corp. acquired it in May 2015, and it again started publishing content after two months.