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Ziff Davis Inc. was founded in 1927 Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis as a publishing company.In 1982 it acquired PC Magazine.
In 1989 it launched the ZDNet site.
In 1995 it launched the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. The magazine is meant to accompany and complement the site Yahoo.
In 2001 Ziff Davis Media Inc. reached an agreement with CNET Networks Inc. and ZDNet to regain the URLs lost in the 2000 sale of Ziff Davis Inc, to Soft Bank. The Ziff Davis Media Inc. partnership of Willis Stein & Partners; and James Dunning (former Ziff Davis CEO, chairman, and president) gained the online content licensing rights to 11 publications, including PC Magazine, CIO Insight and eWEEK.
From this point on the paths Ziff Davis Inc. and the new publishing company Ziff Davis Media Inc. parted. Ziff Davis Inc. goes on under the new name ZDNet.
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