Gigaom, the 10-year-old tech website, closed March 9 after wall-to-wall coverage of the Apple Watch introduction.

Management posted a message to say Gigaom was "unable to pay its creditors in full at this time." The company is working with creditors who now have rights to its assets as collateral.

Gigaom, which said it has no current plans to declare Chapter XI, is not clear whether it will re-start operations.

Founder Om Malik posted the following:

"Every founder starts on a path—hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an industry and hopefully become independent, both metaphorically and financially. Business, much like life, is not a movie and not everyone gets to have a story book ending."

Malik thanked investors and readers for "coming along on this trip of a lifetime."