Tameka Kee
Jan 8, 2010 3:59 PM
Shanda Games’ IPO (and spin-off from parent company *Shanda* Interactive) generated tons of buzz, but not as much revenue as investors had been expecting. Still, the Chinese company is trying to ramp up for a successful 2010 with a few new business deals, including the acquisition of online game developer…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 7, 2009 2:10 PM
This is as cosmic as it gets in the generally boring B2B publishing world: IDG and Ziff Davis have tied up, though the latter is in a very different incarnation than days of yore. IDG TechNetwork, the online ad network from IDG which has about 200 third-party publishers in it,…
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David Kaplan
Feb 2, 2009 12:00 AM
After a pretty quiet year news-wise, online syndicator Mochila has started ‘09 with two relatively big deals: it has secured its third round of funding and is partnering with tech publisher IDG to create a personal technology news section for 44 newspaper sites. And on a smaller personnel note, Benjamin…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 21, 2008 3:56 PM
Giga Omni Media (GOM), the parent company of the popular network of tech sites including GigaOm, is parting ways with its long time ad partner Federated Media, and moving to a more enterprise-focused IDG TechNetwork, IDG’s tech ad network, we have learned and confirmed from the two companies. The new…
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Rafat Ali
May 4, 2008 10:34 PM
IDG, the privately-held B2B trade media biggie which has usually kept quiet about its numbers till now, has opened up a bit in this longish NYT story. The company has been taking the hard decisions on its print magazines, and it closed down InfoWorld print mag last year. Today, IDG…
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Amanda Natividad
Apr 2, 2008 8:34 PM
—IDG: IDG has promoted U.S. CEO Bob Carrigan to CEO of IDG Communications Worldwide, a newly-created position…he will now oversee IDG’s media operations in the U.S. and 84 additional countries worldwide. Carrigan had served as its U.S. CEO since 2005. —Bravo Media: Lisa Hsia has been promoted to the new…
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David Kaplan
Mar 2, 2008 11:51 PM
IDG has completed the first expansion phase of its IDG TechNetwork. As Bob Carrigan, IDG Communications’ CEO, told us last month, the company had been planning to open up the technology- and b2b focused ad network on websites and blogs outside of the magazine company’s circle of publications. As BtoB…
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David Kaplan
Feb 4, 2008 12:01 AM
IDG’s The Industry Standard gets its second life on Monday, this time as a Web-only community site with a prediction market at the center. The magazine seemed to mirror the mania of the late ‘90s internet bubble - soaring too high and then eventually crashing, existing during last few years…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 30, 2007 1:48 PM
The Industry Standard will be resurrected as a blog-cum-community site in December, IDG president Bob Carrigan revealed at our Future Of Business Media conference.Carrigan said an IDG group at InfoWorld in San Francisco has developed a “very innovative social media platform” that aggregates input from the community in a prediction…
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