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2000 - 2005 Milestones
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IDG Company Milestones
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1960s - 1980s milestones
1990s milestones
2006 milestones
2000 - IDC expands to 21 countries in EMEA Region with launch of Spanish office
- IDG launches ITworld.com
- ITworld.com launches ITcareers
- Patrick J. McGovern, Jr., Lore Harp McGovern commit $350 million to MIT to establish Institute for Brain Research
- PC World wins the 2000 Grand Neal Award
- InfoWorld announces CTO Forum
- IDG sweeps 2000 Maggie Awards (U.S.)
- IDG launches new publications in Sweden
- IDG expands use of wireless application protocol to deliver breaking news to mobile devices worldwide
- GamePro ranks as the 4th-largest male teen magazine in the United States
- IDG Japan launches two new publications
- IDC launches free IT email newsletters
- IDG journalists named "Most Influential" by MC's 2000 Media Report
- IDG sweeps American Society of Business Press Editors' 2000 national awards
- PC World (U.S.) becomes the world's largest computer magazine
- IDG expands reach to tech audiences in Switzerland with new industry alliances
- IDG New Zealand's Unlimited Magazine wins more than 15 editorial and design awards in 18 months
- IDG Sweden launches "Mobile World"
- IDG China to co-publish magazine with China State Council
- IDG.net launches WebSolutionsWorld.com
- ITworld.com launches "Innovate" webcast series
- IDG's Networking Italia marks 10th anniversary
- IDC expands its hardware channels research to include channel economics
- IDG dominates Australian Business Publishers Awards
- IDG introduces PC World in Nigeria
- Network World and Global Knowledge form strategic partnership
2001 - IDG named to Fortune magazine's list of "The 100 Best Companies to Work For"
- Adweek Magazine's Technology Marketing included more IDG journalists, analysts and publications among the "most influential in the industry" than any other media company
- IDG Ventures Europe announces first investment
- IDG New Zealand awarded three awards at the Magazine Publishers Association Awards including General Manager Martin Bell being named Publishing Executive of the Year.
- IDG wins 12 awards at 2001 Folio: Show
- InfoWorld Mexico debuts
- IDG New Zealand picks up seven Quantas Media Awards, the country's most prestigious journalism accolades
- PC World and Darwin take home Neal Awards. 14th Neal Award for PC World since 1995
- IDG Sweden launches M3-Maxi Mobile Magazine
Network World Fusion rated Top High-Tech Web Site in min Magazine's New Media 50 Report- IDC launches Company-Wide Initiative Focused On IT Opportunities In Life Sciences
- Six IDG publications take home unprecedented 32 awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors
- IDG's PC World leads all technology and business magazines in single-copy sales
- IDG launches CIO magazine in Germany
- IDG Germany strikes content-sharing partnership with AOL Germany
2002- IDG makes Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the second consecutive year, moving up four spots to No. 21
- IDG launches Hi-Tech Entrepreneur in China
- IDG's corporate Web site named Best International Business Website and the Best Publishing Web site by the Web Marketing Association
- U.S. Computerworld commemorates 35th Year
- IDG launches CIO Magazine in Sweden
- IDG wins 36 ASBPE Awards
- IDG launches Network World in Japan
- IDG's PC World named Best Computer Magazine in its class by Maggie Awards
- IDG wins eleven Maggie Awards in the U.S.
- IDG captures two Neal Awards
- IDG unveils premiere issue of Bio-IT World at the first Bio-IT World Conference and Expo
- IDC launches Australian Biotechnology News
- IDG launches Biotech in Sweden
- IDG's ITworld.com launches first webcast in China
- IDG launches PC World Nepal
- IDC buys Meridian Research, Inc., to expand business into industry advisory research for end users
2003- IDG makes Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the third consecutive year
- Network World and PC World captured five awards in the first annual min's Best of the Web competition
- PC World East Africa earns second place in Best IT Magazine awards competition sponsored by the Computer Society of Kenya
- IDG Netherlands launches ZOOM magazine for digital camera, videography enthusiats
- CIO, CSO, Bio-IT World, and Computerworld take home eight Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards; CIO wins Grand Neal
- Japan launches Bio-IT World publication
- IDG Hungary launches first biotech site in Central Europe
- IDG's Computerworld.com, Bio-IT World, and CIO named to BtoB's 2003 Media Top 50, the annual list of best venues for placing B2B marketing messages
- PC World awarded the Gold Circulation Excellence award by CM magazine, for Best Use of the Internet in the Consumer Magazine category
- IDG Games Media Group's new name - IDG Entertainment - reflects expanded mission
- IDC Mexico brings StorageVision to local market
- IDG wins 36 awards at the national American Society of Business Publication Editors' (ASBPE) ceremony
- Six IDG journalists and an analyst from IDC made the cut in the ninth annual Influencer's Report of Adweek Magazine's Technology Marketing Magazine
- Computerworld New Zealand voted Technology Media of the Year by New Zealand's Telecommunication Users' Association
- IDG Germany launches Digital World publication
- IDG's U.S. publications caputure 18 Folio awards for editorial or design excellence
- IDG Japan launches Computerworld Japan and e-Gov publications
- IDG's Thai publishing partner launches PC World Thailand
- IDG establishishes wholly owned subsidiary in Vietnam
- Security Advisor Middle East, a CSO product, launches in the fall
- Scope Communications Group in Ireland announces that it will produce Digital World
- PC World Caribbean, to be distributed in Trinidad, Barbados, and Jamaia, announces an early 2004 launch
- A PC World edition to be published in the Ukraine called Computers and Rograms subitled PC World Ukraine
2004- IDG is named to Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the fourth consecutive year
- IDG China and the Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of China (ISTIC) jointly announce the launch of Biotech World magazine
- Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco marks its 20th anniversary year in the U.S.
- DC launches Life Science Insights – the second in its Insights line
- PC World and CXO Media announced as winners in the 2003 min’s Best of the Web Awards competition for Editorial Excellence and Online Community, respectively
- IDC celebrates its 40th anniversary with an elegant gathering for more than 650 people including six of the seven former IDC presidents
- Computerworld Thailand debuts as a twice-monthly publication with a planned controlled circulation of 70,000 IT executives
- IDG publications receive nine editorial achievement awards at the 50th annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards
- CXO media launches the CIO Executive Council, a professional organization for chief information officers
- CIO, Computerworld, Network World Fusion and PC World Weekly Brief are included in BtoB magazine’s annual ranking of the top 50 business-to-business media venues
- IDG Chairman Pat McGovern is profiled in Inc. magazine’s “25 Entrepreneurs We Love”
- IDG Entertainment assumes responsibility for Star Wars Insider, a bimonthly fan magazine
- IDG founder and Chairman, Pat McGovern receives the ASBPE Lifetime Achievement Award
- IDG’s U.S. publications take home an unprecedented 118 national and regional awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors
- IDG Chairman Pat McGovern is one of three top publishing executives to receive a Top Innovators in Business Publishing Award from BtoB Media Business
- PC World and Network World take home 10 Tabbie awards from the inaugural competition sponsored by the Trade Association Business Publications International (TABPI)
- Mac Publishing launches Playlist, a newsstand-only monthly focused on digital music
- CXO Media launches CMO with an initial controlled monthly circulation of 25,000
- IDG Vietnam holds its first ICT in Finance event, bringing in double the anticipated revenue
- Computerworld Vietnam debuts with an initial circulation of 30,000
- IDC opens its first wholly owned subsidiary in Argentina
- IDG Italy launches GameStar Italia with a newsstand circulation of 100,000
- IDG Bulgaria launches the bi-monthly publication Digital World
- The bi-monthly LinuxWorld Middle East & Africa debuts with an initial print run of 6,500
- IDG World Expo partners with Robotics Trends to produce RoboNexus, a first-of-its kind conference and expo attracting 10,000 attendees
- IT World Canada announces the formation of IT World Expo Canada
- The Magazine Publishers of America honor IDG Chairman Pat McGovern with a Lifetime Achievement Award
- IDG ranks at No. 83 in Forbes magazine’s listing of the 100 largest privately held companies in the U.S.
- CIO Africa is launched in South Africa as a quarterly edition of CIO magazine with a controlled circulation of 18,000
- Seven IDG publications take home awards from the Folio: Celebration of Excellence Awards Gala – PC World, Computerworld, CSO, CIO, Macworld, InfoWorld and Bio-IT World
2005
Anniversaries- IDG Romania marks its 10th annual ROCS (Romanian Computer Show) (January)
- IDC Nordic marks the 20th anniversary of its yearly Directions briefing event (February)
- DEMO event celebrates its 15th year as a launch pad for innovation - Network World (February)
- IDC holds its 40th annual Directions conference in Boston and San Jose (March)
- Computerworld Venezuela celebrates its 20th anniversary of publishing (March)
- IDG Japan celebrates its 30th anniversary of publishing (April)
- GamePro magazine becomes first U.S. console video-gaming publication to produce 200 issues - IDG Entertainment (April)
Awards/Recognition- IDG founder and Chairman, Pat McGovern receives the Henry Johnson Fisher Lifetime Achievement Award from the Magazine Publishers of America Corporate (January)
- Computerworld and Network World in the U.S. win a total of 5 “Best of the Web” awards from min’s b2b (January)
- Network World is honored with a min’s Best of the Web award for “integration with print” (February)
- Computerworld.com’s Zones, sole-sponsored areas within the site's Knowledge Centers, receives a min’s Best of the Web award for “advertising presentation” (February)
- IDG receives 5 Neal Awards from American Business Media, more than any other media company for the second straight year CSO, CIO, PC World (March)
- CXO Media Editorial Director Lew McCreary receives the G.D. Crain Award from American Business Media for outstanding contributions to the development of editorial excellence in the business press (March)
- CSO and CIO Senior Editor Scott Berinato receives the McAllister Editorial Fellowship from American Business Media to promote the study of business-to-business media (March)
- IDG New Zealand staff and publications are honored at the Magazine Publishers of America Awards in Auckland in business, design and Web site categories (April)
- PC World and InfoWorld are both honored with Maggie Awards for editorial excellence from the Western Publications Association (April)
- IDG Norway’s IT-Karriere magazine wins an award for redesign from the Society for News Design Scandinavia (SNDS) (May)
- CIO and InfoWorld are included in BtoB magazine’s Media Power 50 annual ranking of the top 50 business-to-business media venues (May)
- IDG is recognized as being one of the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal Corporate (May)
- IDG publications in the U.S. receive a total of 91 national and regional editorial, design and web awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors Bio-IT, CIO, CMO, CSO, CW, DW, IW, MW, NW, PCW (June)
- CMO is honored as the American Society of Business Publication Editors’ pick for Magazine of the Year in its first year of publication (June)
- IDG List Services President Deb Goldstein receives The DMA List Leader of the Year Award from the Direct Marketing Association in the U.S. (August)
- Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI) honored seven IDG media companies with a combined total of 23 editorial and design awards along with 17 honorable mentions CIO, CMO, CSO, CW, IW, NW, PCW (June)
Corporate Date- Bob Carrigan is named president of IDG Communications Corporate (June)
- IDG hosts Vietnam Prime Minister Phan Van Khai during his trip to Boston Corporate (June)
- Michael Friedenberg joins IDG as president & CEO of CXO Media (July)
Launches Date- IDC forms Manufacturing Insights, a new independent research and advisory practice (January)
- Life Science Insights introduces its new Web site www.lifescience-insights.com (January)
- IDG Entertainment launches GamerHelp.com for users of PC, handheld and console games (February)
- CMO magazine debuts an online editorial content program including on-demand webcasts and electronic newsletters (February)
- Manufacturing Insights produces the inaugural issue of the bi-weekly newsletter “Theory and Practice” (February)
- IDG Magazine Verlag introduces PC-WELT Family in Germany (March)
- IDG signs a license with Oy Centum to launch PC World in Estonia (April)
- PC World Communications premiers its “Digital Duo” weekly technology television show which will be available for broadcast by public stations throughout the U.S. (April)
- IDG Spain launches Internet-based GameProTV (April)
- Network World and AFCOM join forces to launch the new Data Center Awards in the U.S. (April)
- IDG signs a lease for Computerworld in Kazakhstan with IT Publishing (May)
- IDG Italy and IDC Italy co-organize the country’s first CIO Conference (May)
- IDG China and Reed Business Information launch the bi-weekly trade newspaper TWICE China (May)
- IDG Vietnam holds its firsts CIO Indochina Conference & Awards and ICT in Cambodia (May)
- IDG World Expo launches Small eBusiness World event in the U.S. to help small businesses use online tools to start or grow their businesses (May)
- CIO magazine and CIO Executive Council hold the first CIO Leadership Conference and Ones to Watch Awards Program in the U.S. (May)
- IDG World Expo hosts the inaugural Syndicate conference in the U.S. for emerging trends and technologies in content syndication (May)
- InfoWorld debuts SOA Executive Forum in the U.S. with a focus on IT professionals dealing with complex multi-vendor environments InfoWorld (May)
- IDG World Expo launches LinuxWorld New York Summit 2005 IDG World Expo (May)
- IDG’s Middle East publishing partner, CPI produces SMB Advisor Middle East (July)
- IDC’s Energy Insights forms Energy Executive Council for its industry’s CIOs and business executives (August)
- IDG Sweden publishes PC-Tips & Tricks publication and Web site for PC fans (September)
- IDG’s Middle East publishing partner, CPI, launches SMB Advisor Middle East and Storage Advisor Middle East (September)
- CMO holds the inaugural CMO Perspectives: Making the Right Connections conference in the U.S. (September)
- IDG New Zealand teams with the government of New Zealand to produce the publication actv8 for teens ages 13 to 15 (October)
- IDG World Expo and the Global Grid Forum organize GridWorld conference in the U.S. focusing on the commercial benefits of enterprise grid solutions (October)
Subsidiaries- IDG Korea forms in Seoul after the acquisition of IT World Communications, Inc., a leading online information media firm (January)
- IDC’s Manufacturing Insights and Energy Insights companies debut Manufacturing Insights, Energy Insights (January)
- IDG Ventures opens operations in Ho Chi Minh City (March)
- IDG launches a wholly owned subsidiary in India to produce both print and online publications IDG India (April)
- July 2005 The CIO Executive Council opens CIO Australia and CIO Canada CIO
- IDC launches Health Industry Insights, its fifth industry-specific end-user company Health Industry Insights (September)
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