Om Prakash Malik (Hindi: ॐ प्रकाश मलिक; born September 29, 1966) is an Indian-American web and technology writer.
He authored the book Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist and articles by Malik have been published by The Wall Street Journal, Brandweek, and Crain Communications.
In 1999, he left Forbes.com to work as an investment manager at Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific; his stay there lasted only a few months because he decided he preferred being a writer.
[8] 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.
[10][11] From July 2007 to March 2008, Malik hosted the podcast The GigaOm Show on Revision3 with Joyce Kim, which focused on technology and business.
[14] In December 2007, Malik suffered a heart attack at age 41, likely caused by incessant smoking of cigars and cigarettes as well as drinking alcohol and eating unhealthy foods.