CNET Networks

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CNET Networks Inc. Nasdaq: CNET is an Internet-based media company based in San Francisco, California co-founded in 1993 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie. A publicly-held company, its stock trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol CNET. It has operations in 12 countries.

In the mid-1990s, CNET produced several television programs about computers, technology, and the increasingly-popular Internet. These programs were CNET Central, The Web, The New Edge. CNET Central was created first and aired in syndication in the United States. Later, it began airing on the Sci-Fi Channel along with The Web and The New Edge. These were later followed by TV.com. In addition, CNET produced another television technology news program called, News.com in 1999 that aired on CNBC but was cancelled in 2001.

In early 2000, CNET Networks acquired comparison shopping site mySimon for 700 million USD.

In October of 2000 CNET Networks acquired ZDNet for approximately 1.6B USD. In 2001 Ziff Davis Media Inc. reached an agreement with CNET Networks Inc. to regain the URLs lost in the 2000 sale of Ziff Davis Inc. to SoftBank Corp. a publicly traded Japanese media and technology company.

CNET has pushed to release more video content on their line of websites. They commonly feature early product reviews, game trailers, and a line of recommended products tagged with their "editor's choice". Furthermore, on November 25 2005, CNET held a 12-hour marathon webcast dubbed the "holiday help desk"; viewers were encouraged to submit questions via email or telephone. In a subsequent episode of the Buzz Out Loud podcast, it was revealed that 174 questions had been answered on-air.

CNET also owns some of the internet's most well-known domain names, including download.com, upload.com, news.com, and computers.com.

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