Word: ziff
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...access only certain sites. Those which are generally large and commercially-operated are more popular among users who are seeking reliable, up-to-the-minute information. Many of the most popular sites on the Web are those run by large media corporations such as Time-Warner, Ziff Davis and the New York Times...
...Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, publisher of PC Magazine -- fave of DOS dweebs -- was bought for $1.4 billion by Forstmann Little & Co, a New York investment firm run by high profile banker Ted Forstmann. Included in the deal is the giant publishing arm of Ziff Communications, which includes other magazines like MacWeek and Family PC, as well as Ziffnet, an on-line service. It's a move by Forstmann, a shrewd dealmaker, to keep pace with rival Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which controls New York magazine and other media properties, says TIME associate editor Thomas McCarroll. "They have had this rivalry...
...battle among competing online newsstands is about to get even fiercer. This summer Apple opened a slick service, eWorld, and publisher Ziff-Davis is expected to launch its powerful new Interchange Online Network before the end of the year. But the most fearsome competitors may be ones that are still in the wings. Next year Microsoft is expected to introduce its own online service, code-named Marvel, which it could bundle into every copy of Windows it sells. Even more formidable would be an online service from AT&T, which can market directly to its 80 million customers...
...Ziff Communications Co., the nation's largest computing publishing company, went up for sale. The price tag: from $2 billion to $3 billion. The firm is selling all its publishing holdings, including PC Magazine, PC World, MacWorld, MacWeek and several electronic-information businesses. The New York--based company has annual revenues of over a billion dollars and growing. So why leave the business? It's speculated that the Ziff brothers, Daniel, Dirk and Robert, who now run the family's interests, wish to concentrate on other areas of business.To post your view, click Time Message Boards, open Science and Technology...