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2000 - 2005 Milestones

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2000 milestones

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
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)