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2020 mergers and acquisitions
- GameSpotOn the 1st of May 1996, three former IDG employees launched a new website called GameSpot. Pete Deemer, Vince Broady, and Jon Epstein formed SpotMedia…
- 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…
- MetacriticJason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts launched Metacritic in January 2001 after two years of development. The trio had been working on the project…
- StubHubEric Baker stood in a theater line, unable to buy tickets for The Lion King on Broadway. He needed a way to find secondhand seats without paying inflated…
- TubiTubi launched on the 1st of April 2014 as a free streaming service in San Francisco, California. Farhad Massoudi and Thomas Ahn Hicks founded the company…
- CNETHalsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie launched c/net, a 24-hour cable network about computers and technology in 1992. They produced four pilot television programs…
- GameFAQsOn the 5th of November 1995, a programmer named Jeff Veasey launched a small website called the Video Game FAQ Archive. The site originally hosted just ten…
- Ebony (magazine)Ebony magazine arrived on newsstands in Chicago on the 1st of November 1945. John H. Johnson launched the publication with a press run of just 25,000 copies.
- EuronewsOn the first day of 1993, a new television channel began its transmission from Écully, near Lyon. Ten European public broadcasters had joined forces to…
- HuffPostOn the 9th of May 2005, Arianna Huffington launched The Huffington Post as a direct counter to the Drudge Report. Her team built an early strategy around…