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ZDNet


URL	[1]
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	News
Registration	Optional
Owner	CNET Networks, Inc.
Created by	Ziff-Davis Inc.
Launched	1991

In 1991 Ziff Davis Publishing Company brought together a small, diverse set of online forums and information services (most notably "PC MagNet") under the name "ZiffNet," which later evolved into ZDNet. Under the direction of Ziff-Davis Interactive president Michael Kolowich and vice president David Shnaider, the effort was the first online information service to be created by a major print publishing company.

Hosted initially on the CompuServe and Prodigy information services as well as its own Interchange Online Network, ZiffNet eventually consolidated its services onto the World Wide Web and was renamed "ZDNet." Long time Ziff-Davis veteran Dan Rosensweig was named CEO. A tracking stock, ZDZ, was created to accompany the parent stock, ZD.

In October 2000, CNET Networks, Inc. acquired ZDNet for approximately US$1.6 billion.^[1] Dan Rosensweig was named President of CNET Networks reporting to CEO Shelby Bonnie. He eventually left CNET and currently works as COO of Yahoo! under CEO Terry Semel.^[2] ZDNet remains a core brand for CNET Networks today.

In 2001, Ziff Davis Media Inc. reached an agreement with CNET Networks Inc. and ZDNet to regain the URLs lost in the 2000 sale of Ziff Davis Inc, to Softbank Corp [2].

References

1. ^ CNET buys rival Ziff-Davis for $1.6 billion. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
2. ^ Yahoo picks Cnet Networks' president as new COO. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.

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Websites	Consumating Download.com FilmSpot GameFAQs Game Rankings GameSpot Metacritic MP3.com mySimon TechRepublic TV.com Webshots ZDNet
People	Ina Fried Jeff Gerstmann James Kim Declan McCullagh Tom Merritt Halsey Minor Daniel Terdiman Molly Wood
Other	Buzz Out Loud CNET TV

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CNET Networks, Inc.

Public (NASDAQ: CNET )
Founded 1993
Headquarters 235 Second Street, San Francisco, California, USA
28 E 28th St, New York, New York, USA

Key people Neil Ashe, CEO
Shelby Bonnie, co-founder
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Ziff Davis Media

Privately Held, formerly public company.
Founded 1927
Headquarters New York City, Woburn, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California

Key people Lance Ulanoff
Industry Magazine Publishing/Internet Information Provider
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Michael Edmund Kolowich (born August 28, 1952) is a documentary filmmaker and executive producer of DigiNovations, a multimedia production company which he founded in Concord, Massachusetts, in 2001.
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Subsidiary of AOL
Founded 1969
Headquarters Columbus, Ohio, USA

Industry Internet & Communications
Products ISP
Website www.compuserve.
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Prodigy Communications, L.P.

Defunct (Part of AT&T)
Founded 1984
Headquarters Austin, Texas, USA

Industry Telecommunications
Products Telephone, Internet, Television

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Yahoo! Inc.

Public (NASDAQ: YHOO )
Founded Santa Clara, California
(March 1, 1995)
Headquarters 701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California, USA

Key people Jerry Yang, CEO, Chief Yahoo! and Co-founder
David Filo, Chief Yahoo! and Co-founder
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SoftBank Corp.
ソフトバンク株式会社

Public (TYO: 9984 )
Founded Tokyo, Japan (1981)
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan

Key people Masayoshi Son (孫正義), Founder, President & CEO
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Download.com is an Internet download directory website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET.

Download.com offers content in four major categories: Software (including PC, Mac, and mobile), Music, Games, and Videos
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GameFAQs is a website that hosts FAQs and walkthroughs for video games. It was created in November 1995 by Jeff "CJayC" Veasey and has been owned by CNET Networks since May 2003.
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Game Rankings is a website which keeps track of video game reviews from other sites, and combines them to present an average rating for each game. Similar services include Metacritic (also owned by CNET), GameStats, and Rotten Tomatoes.
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GameSpot video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. The site was launched in May 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady, and Jon Epstein.
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MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies.

It is probably better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent
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mySimon is a comparison shopping website founded by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun in April, 1998 and acquired by CNET Networks in 2000. It was the largest online comparison shopping site in 2000.
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TechRepublic is a technology news site run by CNET Networks, and is led by Stephen Howard-Sarin, vice-president of CNET.^[1]

TechRepublic's news articles are targeted towards professionals in the IT sector.
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TV.com is a website owned by CNET Networks. The service replaced the popular TV Tome website.

The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Ireland.
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