''Macworld'' is a website dedicated to products and software of

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, published by Foundry, a subsidiary of IDG Inc. It started life as a print magazine in 1984 and had the largest audited circulation (both total and newsstand) of Macintosh-focused magazines in North America, more than double its nearest competitor, ''

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'' (formerly ''MacAddict''). ''Macworld'' was founded by

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and Cheryl Woodard (publishers) and

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(editor). It was the oldest Macintosh magazine still in publication, until September 10, 2014, when

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, its parent company, announced it was discontinuing the print edition and laid off most of the staff, while continuing an online version.

History of Macworld

In 1997, the publication was renamed ''Macworld, incorporating MacUser'' (a name reflected subtly on the magazine's Table of Contents page) to reflect the consolidation of the

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-owned ''

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'' magazine into the

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-owned ''Macworld'' within the new Mac Publishing joint venture between the two publishers. In 1999, the combined company also purchased the online publication

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, because ''Macworld'' didn't have a powerful online news component at the time. In late 2001 International Data Group (IDG) bought out Ziff-Davis' share of Mac Publishing, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of IDG. The magazine was published in many countries, either by other IDG subsidiaries or by outside publishers who have licensed the brand name and its content. These editions included Australia, Germany (1990-2015 ''Macwelt''), Italy, Spain, Sweden (''MacWorld''), Turkey, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Indonesia. Its content was also incorporated into a number of other IDG publications. In France, IDG bought ''Golden'' magazine, released in 1991, renamed it into ''Macworld France'' in 1996. Two years later, it has been merged with ''Univers Mac'' and renamed ''Univers Macworld''. Publication ended probably in 2004.https://www.generation-nt.com/reponses/univers-macworld-entraide-204870.html?page=1 generation-nt.com At one time, the magazine's publisher licensed its name to another IDG subsidiary,

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, for the Macworld Conference & Expo (later

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), which took place every January at the

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in San Francisco. ''Macworld'' has also published in

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by Megindo Tunggal Sejahtera, between 2008 until December 2011.

Podcast

The Macworld Podcast is a weekly

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published by ''Macworld''. The Macworld Podcast began life on April 26, 2005 as the "Geek Factor Podcast," hosted by Cyrus Farivar, but was upgraded into the official "Macworld Podcast" with its fifth installment in August 2005. It was hosted at various times by Chris Breen, Philip Michaels, Serenity Caldwell, Glenn Fleishman, and Susie Ochs. Following a hiatus in 2017, today the Macworld Podcast is manned by Michael Simon, Roman Loyola and Jason Cross.

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''Macworld'' (US)

''Macworld UK''

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History of Macworld

Podcast

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