CNET
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| CNET Networks, Inc.
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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: CNET) |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA
<tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Neil Ashe, CEO |
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.<ref>CNET CEO quits after options review; outlook cut (2006-10-11). Retrieved on 2006-10-24.</ref>
[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] References
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[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 |
| Other |
| Buzz Out Loud | CNET TV | On the Spot |
