Influential technology news site Gigaom, which closed in March after nine years, is to relaunch in August.
Founded in 2006 by former Forbes columnist Om Malik, the influential blog covered the growth of the Silicon Valley startup scene alongside rivals such as TechCrunch.
But the venture capital-backed site ceased operations in March, saying it was “unable to pay its creditors in full”.
Austin-based startup Knowingly Corp has bought part of Gigaom’s assets and is planning to relaunch the site on 15 August.
Re/code’s Peter Kafka first reported the deal on Twitter, while former Gigom managing editor Laura Hazard Owen expressed surprise:
.@pkafka BTW, this is news to every @gigaom writer
— Laura Hazard Owen (@laurahazardowen) May 26, 2015
A statement was later posted on the Gigaom website announcing the deal and confirming that Knowingly is buying “the website, gigaom.com, as well as the content library”.
The Knowingly chief executive, entrepreneur and author Byron Reese, said:
“We are excited to be a chapter of the Gigaom story and look forward to continuing its mission of ‘humanising the impact of technology.’
“We live at what I believe is the great turning point of all of human history, and that is being driven in large part by the technologies we are creating. This new world we are making will not just be more prosperous, but it will be more fair and more just than any time in the past. Gigaom will continue documenting this transformation and the technologies which are driving it.”
Reese is the author of Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger and War.
Knowingly publishes iForetold, a website that allows web users to make predictions about the future, and Correctica.com, a tool for for catching copy errors on the web.
