EWeek
Encyclopedia
eWeek is a weekly computing
business
magazine
published by Ziff Davis Enterprise
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The magazine consists of a print publication and web site covering enterprise topics and is targeted at IT professionals rather than hobbyists.
Key Highlights:
* BPA December 2009 ** Online Visitor Study, May 2009
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PC Week was founded in the summer of 1983 by editor-in-chief Drake Lundell, publisher Bob Zeigel, and German financier Otmar Weber of M&T Publishing which owned several European computer magazines. Lundell and Zeigel had previously worked with Computerworld.
The enterprise level assets of Ziff Davis
, including eWeek, Baseline, CIO Insight, Channel Insider, Web Buyer's Guide, the Developer Shed Network and several other properties were carved away from the parent company and sold to Insight Venture Partners
in August 2007 to form a stand-alone company, Ziff Davis Enterprise.
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
magazine
Magazine
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published by Ziff Davis Enterprise
Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis Inc. is an American publisher and Internet company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars,...
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The magazine consists of a print publication and web site covering enterprise topics and is targeted at IT professionals rather than hobbyists.
Audience
The eWeek audience is actively involved in buying enterprise technology and print subscribers are strictly qualified.Key Highlights:
- IT Implementers and technical buyers of IT products and services
- Involved in their organization's IT decision-making process*
- Dedicated IT budgets*
- Annual revenues of $1.8 million**
* BPA December 2009 ** Online Visitor Study, May 2009
History
The magazine was previously known as PC Week and was an asset owned by Ziff DavisZiff Davis
Ziff Davis Inc. is an American publisher and Internet company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars,...
.
PC Week was founded in the summer of 1983 by editor-in-chief Drake Lundell, publisher Bob Zeigel, and German financier Otmar Weber of M&T Publishing which owned several European computer magazines. Lundell and Zeigel had previously worked with Computerworld.
The enterprise level assets of Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis Inc. is an American publisher and Internet company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars,...
, including eWeek, Baseline, CIO Insight, Channel Insider, Web Buyer's Guide, the Developer Shed Network and several other properties were carved away from the parent company and sold to Insight Venture Partners
Insight Venture Partners
Insight Venture Partners is a New York-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. The firm focuses exclusively on software and Internet-enabled businesses and currently has a capital base of approximately $5 billion.The firm’s Executive Advisory...
in August 2007 to form a stand-alone company, Ziff Davis Enterprise.