In March 2015, it was shut down and in June 2015, its website and content were acquired by Knowingly and relaunched.

[1] In 2006, Om Malik founded the company after operating a personal blog.

[2] In June 2006, Malik left his day job at Business 2.0 to work on Gigaom full-time.

[3] In April 2007, the company launched a blog focused on growing a startup.

[11][12][13] On March 9, 2015, Gigaom ceased operations due to financial difficulties.