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Gigaomni Media Acq-hires Mobile Tech Blog jkOnTheRun

By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jul 2008 07:23 PM PST

Gigaomni Media, the blog media network founded by Om Malik, has done its first acq-hire: it has bought a mobile technology blog called jkOnTheRun, a blog about mobile gadgets, including mobile phones and cloud client computers. The two writers/founder will stay on board, and this will be the sixth blog in the GigaOm Network. The company also hinted that it will on the look out for more such blogs/sites that fits into its area of tech coverage. It has funding from True Ventures and some angels.

This continues the frantic pace of activity in the blog media world, as consolidation and funding of ventures continues.

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