Om Malik is a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine in San Francisco. He writes a daily blog at gigaOM.com. Before joining Business 2.0, he was a senior writer for Red Herring focusing on the telecommunications sector, and a senior writer for Forbes.com. 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, Business 2.0, Brandweek, and Crains, New York Business. For a very brief while, he flirted with venture capital world, and worked for H&Q Asia Pacific as an investment manager.

The word Om and similar words have these meanings:-

• Aum, a sacred bijakshara (syllable) of Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism; also relevant in Buddhism.
• Oom is Dutch for "uncle"; this word is found in some names.
• In Dutch and Scandinavian languages, om is a preposition meaning "around".
• In Swedish, om means "if" and also is a preposition meaning "around".
• Om in Romanian means "man"
• Omu Peak (2507 m) in the Bucegi Mountains.
• Om River, a river in Russia.
• Olympus OM system, is a family of Olympus SLR cameras made between 1972 and 2002.
• Ohm (unit), a unit of electrical resistance.
• Georg Ohm, a German physicist.
• Om, a fictional deity in the Discworld universe.
• Om Records, a San Francisco-based dance music record label, home to artist like J Boogie, Kaskade, and King Kooba.
• Om (band), a stoner doom metal band.
• Ohms, a band from the UK
• Om (album), a Negura Bunget album.
• ॐ, a Soulfly album. (often referred to as 3)
• The name of a song and its entire lyrical content, written by Dave Lister, a fictional character from the TV series Red Dwarf

As an abbreviation, OM can mean:

• Obesity Misery - Depression brought on by severe weight problems
• Odyssey of the Mind
• Operation Mobilisation
• Order of Merit
• Olympique de Marseille, a French soccer team

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