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InfoWorld

Information technology media business

Field	Value
title	InfoWorld
logo	InfoWorld Logo with Maroon Background.svg
image_file	InfoWorld cover.png
caption	March 26, 2007 cover of InfoWorld
firstdate
finaldate	(since published online)
company	FoundryCo, Inc. (Regent LP)
country	United States
based	San Francisco
language	English
website
issn	0199-6649

InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business that began as a monthly magazine in 1978, but transitioned to a Web publication in 2007. Having Macworld and PC World as its sister publications, it has been owned by Regent LP since 2025.

Overview

Based in San Francisco, IW has contributors and supporting staff based across the U.S. Since its founding, InfoWorlds readership has largely consisted of IT and business professionals.

InfoWorld focuses on how-to, analysis, and editorial content from a mixture of experienced technology journalists and working technology practitioners. The site averages 4.6 million monthly page views and 1.1 million monthly unique visitors.

History

The magazine was founded by Jim Warren in 1978 as The Intelligent Machines Journal (IMJ).

In February 1980, one year after being sold to International Data Group (IDG), the magazine changed its name to InfoWorld. In 1986, the Robert X. Cringely column began; for many, that pseudonymous column was the face of InfoWorld and its close ties to Silicon Valley in particular.

Up to and including the 15 June 1987 issue 24, volume 9, InfoWorld was published by Popular Computing, Inc., a subsidiary of CW Communications, Inc. Since then, it has been published by InfoWorld Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of IDG Communications, Inc.

Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe was CEO and publisher from 1991 to 1996, and contributed a weekly column until 2000. As the magazine transitioned to be exclusively Web-based, the final print edition was dated 2 April 2007 (Volume 29, Issue 14, Number 1384).

In its web incarnation, InfoWorld has transitioned away from widely available news stories to a focus on how-to, expert testing, and thought leadership.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

References

"Blackstone-backed IDG Completes Sale of Foundry to Regent". Regent LP.
Lohr, Steve. (5 May 2008). "Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In". [[The New York Times]].
(23 August 1993). "Telecommunicating via ISDN is getting cheaper".
(13 December 1993). "Stuck in the non-eeny PC mindset for 15 years".
(2015). "Media Kit 2015".
(2 April 2007). "InfoWorld Through the Years".
(6 December 2018). "About Us".
(20 November 2008). "The Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever". [[Technologizer]].
(18 April 2006). "Computer Science Resources: A Guide to Professional Literature". [[American Society for Information Science]].
(2000). "Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer". [[McGraw-Hill]].

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