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Om Perkash Malik

He is an Indian-American web and technology writer.

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Education :

Malik completed his graduation from St. Stephens’ College in New Delhi in 1986, with an honors degree in chemistry.

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Malik moved to New York City in 1993 to be a writer for India Abroad and then for Forbes.
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.
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.
He then left Forbes in the year 1999.
In 2000, he moved to San Francisco, California to write for Business 2.0 magazine.
In 2001, he started GigaOM, a Web 2.0 blog published by GigaOmniMedia, Inc. in San Francisco.
The website has a monthly global audience of 500,000, is among the top 50 blogs worldwide by Technorati Rank, and is part of CNet’s 100 Most Influential Blogs.
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.
Malik announced on June 12, 2006, 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.

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