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Etienne Uzac and Johnathan Davis founded the International Business Times. Uzac, a native of France, conceived the idea while studying at the London School of Economics, and the two launched the site in late 2005 after moving to New York City.
International Business Times launched in late 2005, with ibtimes.com going live in April 2006. The site added a dedicated Foreign Exchange portal in November 2007.
International Business Times claimed forty million unique visitors each month as of 2014, placing it among the world's largest online news sources. Its 2013 revenues were around 21 million dollars.
International Business Times won four "Best in Business" awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2016, the most of any publication that year. It was also nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award in 2015 for investigative reporting on state pension corruption.
IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC/InterActiveCorp on the 4th of August, 2013. In 2018, Newsweek was spun off as an independent company jointly owned by Johnathan Davis and Dev Pragad, and a legal dispute over the separation terms was dismissed and considered closed by 2024.
IBT faced criticism from former journalists in 2014 who described the newsroom as operating like a content farm demanding high-volume output. In 2016, employees complained publicly about missed payroll and one-sided nondisclosure agreements, and the company laid off an estimated thirty percent of its editorial staff. Reports also described links between IBT Media and Olivet University, an evangelical institution founded by David Jang.