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2020 mergers and acquisitions
- GameSpotGameSpot launched on the 1st of May, 1996, born out of a bet that the internet would change how people talked about video games forever.
- MiramaxHarvey and Bob Weinstein opened their first office in Buffalo, New York, during 1979. They named the company Miramax by combining the names of their parents…
- MetacriticMetacritic is an American website that can determine whether a game developer receives a bonus check or gets laid off. That is not a metaphor.
- StubHubStubHub traces its origin to the late 1990s, when Eric Baker went looking for a secondhand ticket to a Broadway performance of The Lion King.
- TubiTubi is an American streaming television service that runs on ads instead of charging a subscription fee. Stylized as tubı, the service reached 100 million…
- CNETCNET launched as a cable channel in 1992, founded by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie after Minor left PepsiCo. The idea was simple and ambitious: a 24-hour…
- GameFAQsGameFAQs launched on the 5th of November 1995 as the Video Game FAQ Archive, a site with roughly 10 pages and 100 guides.
- Ebony (magazine)Ebony magazine published its very first issue on the 1st of November 1945, with a press run of 25,000 copies that sold out completely.
- EuronewsEuronews went on air on the 1st of January 1993, broadcasting its first bulletin from the Lyon suburb of Écully. Behind that modest debut was a bigger…
- HuffPostHuffPost launched on the 9th of May 2005, with a very specific target in mind: the Drudge Report. Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and…