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5 unusual facts about Ziff Davis


Garrett TFE731

In 1975, the TFE731 was named Aviation Product of the Year by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.

J2 Global

On November 12, 2012, j2 Global launched its digital media division with the acquisition of digital publisher Ziff Davis Inc. for $167 million in cash.

Software Industry Conference

Before it was taken down, the Software Industry Conference website noted: "From 1991 through 1994 the conference was called the Summer Shareware Seminar and was held in June. In 1994, due to a conflict with Ziff-Davis, the conference name was changed to the Shareware Industry Conference and began being held in July. In 2007, the board of directors changed the name to Software Industry Conference to better reflect the needs of the industry."

Sushi-X

The staff, with a new editor-in-chief and publisher, John Davison and Ziff Davis respectively, were in the process of redesigning the magazine to make it appeal to a more mature audience.

Yahoo! Internet Life

Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, the well-known web portal and search engine website.



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Alex Kotzky

In 1955/56 he did interior illustrations for the Ziff-Davis science fiction magazines If and Amazing Stories.

Amazing Stories

Shortly after the merger, Bernhard decided to retire, and approached Edward Ferman, the editor of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Joel Davis, at Ziff-Davis, among others, about a possible sale of Amazing.

Chris Melissinos

Melissinos is a prolific speaker, regularly speaking at conferences such as the Consumer Electronics Show, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Game Developers Conference, Harvard's Cyberposium, JavaTM Conference in Milan, Italy, and Ziff-Davis's Electronic Gaming Summit.

Computer Gaming World

At the GFW Radio Penny Arcade Expo reunion, Jeff Green claimed that the deal with Microsoft allowed CGW/GFW to continue operating, and that if it had not occurred Ziff Davis would have shut down CGW.

DragonRealms

The design basis for the game was created by Simutronics founder David Whatley, in response to a production request for a new game to open at the same time as the then-pending Ziff-Davis online service.

When Ziff-Davis did not launch the service, DragonRealms was offered on GEnie and later AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy.

Leon Lazarus

Lazarus additionally wrote for Ziff-Davis, under editor Jerry Siegel, doing stories for Kid Cowboy, G.I. Joe (unrelated to the later Hasbro action figures) and other comic books for about a year, and also did work for the writer/artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and for American Comics Group (AGC), under editor Richard E. Hughes.

Mac Publishing

Mac Publishing LLC was created in September 1997 as a joint venture between International Data Group and Ziff-Davis, publishers of the two largest magazines focused on the Apple Macintosh at the time, IDG's Macworld and Ziff-Davis's MacUser, respectively.

MacUser

In 1985 Felix Dennis’ Dennis Publishing, the creators of MacUser in the UK, licensed the name and “mouse-rating” symbol for MacUser to Ziff-Davis Publishing for use in the rest of the world.

Official PlayStation Magazine

Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, a U.S. magazine by Ziff-Davis Media, published from 1997 to 2007

PC/Computing

When the technology bubble burst in mid-2000, the rechristened "Ziff-Davis Smart Business" lost its ad market.

Radio News

Ziff-Davis Publishing would develop two categories of magazines; the professional magazine such as Radio & Television News and the leisure time magazines like Popular Photography.

WTOV-TV

In 1983, Ziff Davis sold WTOV, along with then-sister stations WEYI-TV in Saginaw, Michigan, WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia and WROC-TV in Rochester, New York, to Television Station Partners, L.P. WTOV, along with WEYI and WROC, were sold to Smith Broadcast Group in 1996.