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Four years later, he bought out co-founder Bernard Davis, who then launched Davis Publications Inc. [3] Ziff then re-directed the company toward enthusiast magazines and trade publications, with the acquisition of such titles as Car and Driver, Popular Electronics, PC Magazine, World Aviation Directory and Computer Shopper. [1] [4]
The word Magazine was added to the name with the third issue in June 1982, [6] but not added to the logo until January 1986.) [2] PC Magazine was created by David Bunnell, Jim Edlin, and Cheryl Woodard [7] (who also helped Bunnell found the subsequent PC World and Macworld magazines). David Bunnell, Edward Currie and Tony Gold were the ...
David Hugh Bunnell (July 25, 1947 – October 18, 2016) was a pioneer of the personal computing industry who founded some of the most successful computer magazines including PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld. In 1975, he was working at MITS in Albuquerque, N.M., when the company made the first personal computer, the Altair 8800.
In 1996, Rosensweig led the Ziff Davis launch of a series of Internet print magazines, including, by license, the acclaimed Yahoo! Internet Life . [ 3 ] In 1998, he took over Ziff Davis' Internet Operation as president and CEO of ZiffNet , now known as ZDNet , where he took the company public and sold it to CNET , in 2001.
This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for computer and technology enthusiasts or users. The majority of these magazines cover general computer topics or several non-specific subject areas, however a few are also specialized to a certain area of computing and are listed separately.
Also affecting magazines was the computer industry's economic difficulties, including the video game crash of 1983, which badly hurt the home-computer market. Dan Gutman, the founder of Computer Games, recalled in 1987 that "the computer games industry crashed and burned like a bad night of Flight Simulator—with my magazine on the runway".
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In 1986, he founded Automobile with financial backing from Rupert Murdoch [18] – using the credo No Boring Cars. [8] Davis introduced full-color photography and thick stock, increasing the magazine's literary standards to distinguish it from the other three U.S. automotive magazines, Car and Driver, Motor Trend and Road & Track. [18]