Ziff Davis has created two new roles at the company that are meant to expand its profile as more than a publisher of tech news and reviews. Six months after developing its own in-house ad targeting platform and acquiring tech deals site LogicBuy, the company has named Vindico’s Joey Fortuna…

Eric Koepele is leaving his post running digital ad sales for Hearst TV to join Ziff Davis. This is the third high-profile media vet to join Ziff Davis since ex-Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) exec Vivek Shah teamed with Great Hill Partners to acquire the company in June. Koepele, who was…

New Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah is pinning his business plan for the digital-only tech publisher on a mix of database marketing, advertising and subscription—and adding two senior execs to help. The company plans to announce today that Bennett Zucker is joining as SVP/GM of Data Solutions, focusing on mining…

Ziff Davis’ sale today ends a saga, which started nearly three-and-a-half years ago when the troubled media company first tried to sell itself. It later offloaded just its enterprise unit and ultimately filed for bankruptcy protection, which it emerged from two years ago. A recap of the recent history, in…

So Vivek Shah has emerged from his post-Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) stage as the new owner of tech publisher Ziff Davis, including PCMag.com, with Boston-based Great Hill Partners providing the funding. Technically, what they’ve picked up are the assets of a company that was saddled with debt from high leverage,…

Looking to conserve its resources for its PC Mag Digital business, Ziff Davis Media has sold off the 1UP Digital Network, its collection of video game sites, to Hearst Corp., which will fold it into the UGO Entertainment division. In conjunction with the sale, the related print mag Electronic Gaming…

Ziff Davis, the tech/gaming media company that recently exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is now taking the brave but inevitable step of closing down the print version of PCMag to focus its energy on its growing PCMag online network of sites, led by flagship PCmag.com. The magazine, which was started in…

Ziff Davis, the trade publisher which has been going through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, now has the New York judge approval on it. U.S. bankruptcy judge Burton Lifland in Manhattan said in a court order on Tuesday that the company had gained appropriate acceptance from creditors for its reorg…

Ziff Davis, the embattled business media firm, has finished up its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The legalese: “it has reached an agreement with an ad hoc group of holders of more than 80% in principal amount of its Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors…

Ziff Davis’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing hearing continues, and the first amended document with all the details of the reorg and the plans has been filed (embedded below). It has company revenues projections for the rest of the year and next year, as well as an alternate liquidation analysis in…

Ziff Davis, which is in the middle of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy re-org, has hit some headwinds from some of its unsecured noteholders…of course that’s what led to the bankruptcy filing in the first place. In a 62-page transcript of its hearing earlier this month, some details on it (embedded…

More in the ongoing Ziff Davis bankruptcy saga…as we mentioned before, the confusion over three companies having Ziff Davis (or at least ZD) as part of their branding doesn’t help. Now this confusion has escalated in its seriousness as Ziff Davis filed for Ch 11…so much so that a note…

Alan Meckler, never one to mince his words, had an interesting observation on Ziff Davis’ Chapter 11 filing yesterday: “Presently there are three ZD-like entities in the arena: Ziff Davis Media (bankrupt); ZDnet.com (part of Cnet); and ZD Enterprise (independent). Perhaps the Insight folks should consider changing the name of…

Ziff Davis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this afternoon, as we reported first here, and a total of 23 documents were filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The two main ones are embedded below as PDFs (after the jump). The company has about…

Ziff Davis, the troubled trade media company which sold off its enterprise division last year, is now close to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, we have learned. The company has not been able to come to an…