IDG

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International Data Group (IDG) is a publisher of magazines which focus on information technology. The company was formed in 1964 in Boston by Patrick McGovern.

IDG publishes over 300 magazines in 85 countries and their five global publication product lines – Computerworld/InfoWorld, CIO, Macworld, Network World, and PC World – account for more than 175 of these titles. McGovern has made millions of dollars from the growth of IDG, which has remained a private company.

IDG Books, which was a public company spun off from the privately held IDG, published the popular self help "...For Dummies" books. The "...For Dummies" range was originally limited to computer related fields, but later expanded to include a much wider variety of topics. The series is now published by John Wiley & Sons; IDG Books/Hungry Minds (as IDG Books was briefly renamed before being sold to Wiley in 2001) no longer exists as a separate company.

IDG also has its own international news agency, IDG News Service. It is headquartered in Boston and has bureaus in New York, Washington, San Francisco, Tokyo, Taipei, Beijing, Singapore, Bangalore, Paris, London, Dublin, and Brussels. It provides news, images, and other editorial content to IDG's web sites and print publications worldwide.