UBM Technology Group was a business-to-businessmultimedia 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 San Francisco, California, today UBM Technology Group is part of UBM, a global business-to-business events organiser which in turn owned by Informa.
History
In 1971, Gerard "Gerry" Leeds and his wife, Lilo, founded the company as CMP Publications Inc. in Manhasset, 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 McGraw-HillInformation Technology and Communications Group in 1998. CMP Media was sold to United News & Media's Miller Freemanin 1999 and in 2000, the IT portion of Miller Freeman was merged into CMP. CMP Channel was spun off as UBM Channel and later went into management buyout as The Channel Company 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 was grouped into CMP GamaNetwork in early 2001. Black Hat Briefings was acquired in 2005. In May 2006, CMP Media changed its name to CMP Technology. In September 2006, NewBay Media acquired CMP Entertainment Media from United Business Media.The trade book operations of CMP were sold to Elsevier and Hal Leonard. In November 2006, Forbes reported that United Business Media had purchased the events assets of MediaLive International Inc. This transaction included COMDEX and Interop 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 UBM Canon. Electronics part of Canon later merged into UBM Electronics. In July 2012, UBM TechWeb changed its name to UBM Tech. On June 3, 2016, UBM announced that EE Times, along with the rest of the electronics media portfolio was being sold to AspenCore Media, a company owned by Arrow Electronics for $23.5 million. The acquisition was completed on August 1, 2016. In January 2018 Informa announced the acquisition of UBM for £4 billion. The transaction was completed in June 2018.
Markets served
Publications for the builders of technology include Dr. Dobb's Journal. Publications for the buyers of technology include InformationWeek, Network Computing for the corporate IT user; and targeted publications for the financial industry. UBM Technology Group key communities:
UBM Technology Group co-produces the Web 2.0 Summit along with O'Reilly Media, and formerly the owner of the USPTO Service Mark 'WEB 2.0'. Current UBM Technology Group assets:
