Reference name: CW/IDG

Computer World Information Technology Ltd.

Type:
company
Date of foundation:
1986
Address:
Founders:
  • Computerworld Communications, Inc. (CWC Inc., later part of IDG Inc.) - 49%
  • Pallas Newspaper Publishing Company and the Statistical Publishing Company. - 51 %
  • Main goals and areas of activity

    He planned to publish a trial issue of the publication Computerworld for May 1986. This became the legal successor to the “classic” journal Computerworld, which contained even more information. Building on the experience of the spring issue, professionals could receive this magazine monthly from September, and biweekly from 1987.

    From January 1989, the paper was published weekly, which clearly shows the success of the paper.

    Senior management
    • Dezső Futász, CW Managing Director 1986-1981
    • István Biró, IDG Director 1991-2012
    Key figures, key people
    IT developments/products/Projects
    n.a.
    Transformations

    1969. The monthly journal Számítástechnika was launched as the journal of the Central Statistical Office. The journal was edited by SZTI, and then from 1974 by Számok, and published by SKV. The journal reported extensively on foreign computer technology events, a significant part of which was taken from the American CDI, CWCI, and German computer technology journals.

    IDG Director: István Bíró 1991-2012. He managed the publication of Computerworld-Számítástechnika, PC World, Gamestar and several other media. The publisher created iNTerNeTTo, the first non-professional, general-topic, Hungarian-language online magazine

    In March 1991, the American International Data Group (IDG) founded the IDG Hungary magazine publisher, owned by IDG Inc., which remained a member of the IDG group (Business Unit) until the end of 2012. The newly established IDG Hungary Kft. took over the Computerworld-Számítástechnika license.

    In 1992, IDG Hungary Kft. purchased Alaplápot from Cédrus Kft., founded by Pál Faklen (1990). Under his leadership, the magazine was separated from the IDG publisher under the name Új Alaplap (without compensation) and was discontinued after a while. The publisher was the first to move from a print-only magazine to a regular CD supplement and multimedia: it was the first (and second in Europe) to publish a CD-based “magazine”: AB-CD. This endeavor led from CD to online.

    In 1994, the publisher created the iNTerNeTTo internet magazine, the first Hungarian-language online magazine with a general theme, not just a professional one.

    In 1999, theINTERNETIts editors arbitrarily separated from the Publisher and founded Index with external funding, which has been operating ever since.iNTerNeTTo-tlater it was bought by Index itself.

    In December 2012, Computerworld, along with its sister magazines PC WORLD and GameStar, and all online supplements and publications (with the rights to the licenses) became the property of Project/029.

    2013. IDG Inc. signed an exclusive license agreement with the new company

    Interesting facts

    Their other publication, Mikrovilág, was taken over by the new publisher from Delta Szaklapkiadó Vállalat. The editor-in-chief of Mikrovilág was Sándor Mester (1988-2000).

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