CNET Networks Inc. is an Internet-based mass media corporation 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 under the stock symbol CNET. It has operations in 12 countries.
In the mid-1990s, CNET produced several television programs about computers, technology, and the increasingly-popular Internet. These programs were CNET Central , The Web (television show) , The New Edge . These were later followed by TV.com . They all aired on Sci Fi channel (United States) in the United States. In addition, CNET produced another television technology news program called, News.com in 1999 that aired on CNBC but was cancelled in 2001.
In early 2000, CNET Networks acquired comparison shopping site MySimon for 700 million USD.
In October of 2000 CNET Networks acquired ZDNet for approximately 1.6B USD. 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.
=See Also=
*Download.com
*GameFAQs
*GameSpot
*TV.com
*Webshots
*ZDNet
=External links=
*[http://www.cnetnetworks.com Corporate website]
[http://www.bnet.com/ BNET]
[http://www.cnet.com/ CNET.com]
[http://www.cnetchannel.com/main/default.aspx CNET Channel]
[http://www.download.com/2001-20_4-0.html CNET Download.com]
[http://news.com.com/2001-1_3-0.html CNET News.com]
[http://reviews.cnet.com/2001-1_7-0.html CNET Reviews]
[http://shopper.cnet.com/2001-1_9-0.html CNET Shopper.com]
[http://shopper.cnet.com/4002-7409_9-5510693.html Computer Shopper]
[http://www.gamespot.com/ GameSpot]
[http://www.cnetnetworks.com/advertise/properties/international.html International Media]
[http://www.mp3.com/ MP3.com]
[http://www.mysimon.com/2001-1_8-0.html mySimon]
[http://www.release1-0.com/ Release 1.0]
[http://www.search.com/ Search.com]
[http://techrepublic.com.com/ TechRepublic]
[http://www.tv.com/ TV.com]
[http://www.upload.com/ Upload.com]
[http://www.webshots.com/ Webshots]
[http://www.zdnet.com/ ZDNet]
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=CNET Networks International Sites=
Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore)
[http://asia.cnet.com/ asia.cnet.com]
[http://gamespotasia.com/ gamespotasia.com]
Australia
[http://zdnet.com.au/ zdnet.com.au]
[http://builderau.com.au/ builderau.com.au]
[http://cnet.com.au/ cnet.com.au]
France
[http://www.zdnet.fr zdnet.fr]
[http://www.cnetfrance.fr cnetfrance.fr]
[http://www.businessmobile.fr businessmobile.fr]
Germany
[http://www.zdnet.de zdnet.de]
Japan
[http://japan.cnet.com cnet.com]
[http://japan.zdnet.com zdnet.com]
Korea
[http://www.zdnet.co.kr zdnet.co.kr]
[http://www.gamespot.co.kr gamespot.co.kr]
Taiwan
[http://taiwan.cnet.com taiwan.cnet.com]
United Kingdom
[http://www.zdnet.co.uk zdnet.co.uk]
[http://uk.builder.com uk.builder.com]
[http://www.silicon.com silicon.com]
[http://www.CNET.co.uk CNET.co.uk]
=Related Sites=
*[
http://www.eweek.com eWeek]
*[
http://www.betanews.com BetaNews]
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http://www.pcmag.com PC Magazine]
