CNET
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| CNET Networks, Inc. | |
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| Type of Company | Public (NASDAQ: CNET) |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Key people | Neil Ashe, CEO Shelby Bonnie, co-founder |
| Industry | Internet Information Provider |
| Revenue |  $352.951 million (2005) |
| Net income | $27.693 million (2005) |
| Employees | 2,080 (2006) |
| Website | www.cnetnetworks.com |
CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNET) is an Internet-based American media company based in San Francisco, California co-founded in 1993 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie. A publicly held company, its stock trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol CNET. It has operations in 12 countries.
On October 11, 2006, Shelby Bonnie resigned as chairman and CEO as a result of stock options backdating that occurred between 1996 and 2003. Neil Ashe was named as the new CEO.[1]
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[edit] History
In the mid-1990s, CNET produced several television programs about computers, technology, and the Internet. CNET TV was composed of CNET Central, The Web, and The New Edge. CNET Central was created first and aired in syndication in the United States. Later, it began airing on the Sci-Fi Channel along with The Web and The New Edge. These were later followed by TV.com. In addition, CNET produced another television technology news program called News.com that aired on CNBC from 1999 to 2001.
In 1999, CNET granted the right to Asiacontent to set up CNET Asia, operation was brought back in Dec 2000.
In early 2000, CNET Networks acquired comparison shopping site mySimon for $700 million.
In October of 2000, CNET Networks acquired ZDNet for approximately $1.6B. In 2001, Ziff Davis Media, Inc. reached an agreement with CNET Networks, Inc. to regain the URLs lost in the 2000 sale of Ziff Davis, Inc. to SoftBank Corp. a publicly traded Japanese media and technology company.
CNET has pushed to release more video clip content on their line of websites. They commonly feature early product reviews, game trailers, and a line of recommended products tagged with their "editor's choice". On November 25, 2005, CNET held a 12-hour marathon webcast dubbed the "holiday help desk"; viewers were encouraged to submit questions via email or telephone. In a subsequent episode of the Buzz Out Loud podcast, it was revealed that 174 questions had been answered on-air.
CNET also owns some of the Internet's most generic domain names, including download.com, upload.com, news.com, search.com, tv.com, mp3.com, chat.com, computers.com, help.com, shopper.com, and com.com.
GameSpot, GameFAQs, Metacritic, MP3.com, and TV.com operate under the "CNET Games and Entertainment" brand name.
[edit] Podcasts
Due to the websites growing usage of video editorials, reviews, and event streaming; the network has spawned several tech-related video podcasts in addition to their audio ones. These are:
- Buzz Out Loud (audio: by Molly Wood, Veronica Belmont, and Tom Merritt)
- Crave (video: Veronica Belmont and the late James Kim) it is not known whether Crave will continue to be shown after James Kim's death
- Daily Tech News (audio)
- The Buzz Report (video: Molly Wood)
- Gadgettes (audio: Molly Wood and Kelly Morrison)
- MP3 Insider (audio: late James Kim and Veronica Belmont, Jasmine France may replace James Kim)
- The Real Deal (audio: Tom Merritt)
- Security Bites (audio & video) Video podcast is found on CNET TV
- News.com Podcast (audio)
- Studio C (audio)
[edit] References
- ^ CNET CEO quits after options review; outlook cut (2006-10-11). Retrieved on 2006-10-24.
[edit] See also
- James Kim (1971~2006)
[edit] External links
| CNET |
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| Websites |
| Consumating | Download.com | GameFAQs | Game Rankings | GameSpot | Metacritic | Movie Tome | MP3.com | mySimon | Search.com | TechRepublic | TV.com | Webshots | ZDNet |
| Employees |
| Molly Wood | Tom Merritt | Veronica Belmont | James Kim | Brian Cooley | Kent German |
| Other |
| Buzz Out Loud | CNET TV | On the Spot |
