UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a

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company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide. It offered marketers and advertisers services such as print, newsletters, custom web sites, and events. Its products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, education and training, trade shows and conferences, direct marketing services and custom publishing. Headquartered in

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, UBM Technology Group was a part of UBM, a global business-to-business (B2B) events organiser which in turn owned by

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and later absorbed into Informa Tech.

History

In 1971, Gerard "Gerry" Leeds and his wife, Lilo, founded the company as CMP Publications Inc. in

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, New York. Their sons Michael and Daniel managed the company in 1988, and launched TechWeb in 1994. CMP Media went public in 1997. CMP Media acquired

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Information Technology and Communications Group (including ''BYTE'') in 1998. CMP Media was sold to United News & Media's

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in 1999,Callahan, Sean (1 June 1999) "Miller Freeman Prepares For CMP Takeover" ''Business Marketing'' p.4; Miller Freeman subsequently sold CMP UK and France to VNU. In 2000, the US IT portion of Miller Freeman was merged into CMP. CMP Channel (including CRN US) was spun off as UBM Channel and later went into management buyout as

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in 2013. The music portions of CMP and Miller Freeman were spun off as Music Player Network, which managed by CMP Entertainment Media. The gaming portion (including

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and Game Developer Conference) was grouped into CMP GamaNetwork in early 2001.

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was acquired in 2005. In May 2006, CMP Media changed its name to CMP Technology. In September 2006,

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acquired CMP Entertainment Media from United Business Media. The trade book operations of CMP were sold to

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and

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. In November 2006,

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reported that United Business Media had purchased the events assets of MediaLive International Inc. This transaction included

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and

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which later integrated into CMP Technology. In 2008, United Business Media broke CMP into four divisions inside UBM, notably merged the IT portion of CMP into UBM TechWeb and the electronics portion into UBM Electronics. "Today, the name is gone and what's left of the company is part of the British media conglomerate, UBM plc," according to Newsday. In September 2010, Canon Communications announced that it had agreed to be acquired by United Business Media and the deal was completed in October 2010, at which point the company was renamed

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. Electronics part of Canon (including EDN) later merged into UBM Electronics. In July 2012, UBM TechWeb changed its name to UBM Tech. On June 3, 2016, UBM announced that

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, along with the rest of the electronics media portfolio (EDN, Embedded.com, TechOnline and Datasheets.com) was being sold to AspenCore Media, a company owned by

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for $23.5 million. The acquisition was completed on August 1, 2016. In January 2018,

announced the acquisition of UBM for £4 billion. The transaction was completed in June 2018. Since the integration of UBM into Informa, UBM Technology Group was merged into the technology division of Informa and now exist as Informa Tech.

Markets served

Publications for the builders of technology include

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. Publications for the buyers of technology include

InformationWeek ''InformationWeek'' is a digital magazine which conducts corresponding face-to-face events, virtual events, and research. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was first published in 1985 by CMP Media, later called Informa. The ...

, Network Computing for the corporate IT user; and targeted publications for the financial industry (Wall Street & Technology, Insurance & Technology, and Bank Systems & Technology). UBM Technology Group key communities: *

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* Enterprise Communications * Enterprise IT * IT Services/Support and Contact Center * Game and VR Development * Content Marketing UBM Technology Group (as CMP) co-produces the Web 2.0 Summit along with O'Reilly Media, and formerly the owner of the USPTO Service Mark '

WEB 2.0 Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and ...

'. Current UBM Technology Group assets: * Black Hat * Content Marketing Institute * Content Marketing World * ContentTECH Summit * Dark Reading * Enterprise Connect * GDC * Gamasutra * HDI * ICMI * InformationWeek * Interop * Network Computing * No Jitter * Service Management World * XRDC

Gallery

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References

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External links

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Dark Reading

InformationWeek

Network ComputingGerard Leeds Biography
Business services companies established in 1971 Mass media companies established in 1971 1971 establishments in New York (state) 1999 mergers and acquisitions 1997 initial public offerings Informa 2018 mergers and acquisitions Companies based in San Francisco