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GigaOm site is sold, will relaunch in August

Knowingly Corp., an Austin-based Internet company, announced Tuesday that it has acquired a portion of the assets of Gigaom.

These assets include the website, gigaom.com, as well as the content library. Knowingly plans to relaunch the site on Aug. 15, 2015. Until that date, visitors will find only minimal changes to the site and no new content.

At the helm of Knowingly Corp is tech entrepreneur and author Byron Reese, who described Gigaom as, “second to none in what it does.” He added, “We are excited to be a chapter of the Gigaom story and look forward to continuing its mission of ‘humanizing 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,” said Reese. He added, “Gigaom will continue documenting this transformation and the technologies which are driving it.”

Founded in 2006 by Om Malik, GigaOm began as a technology blog and soon grew to become one of the industry’s most respected sources for tech-related news, events and research.

Founded in 2014 by Reese, Knowingly offers a number of websites and services, including iforetold.com, where people can log predictions about the future, and Correctica, a tool which catches errors in documents and websites that spell checkers miss.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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