InfoWorld
Information technology media business
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InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business that began as a monthly magazine in 1978, but transitioned to a Web publication in 2007. Having Macworld and PC World as its sister publications, it has been owned by Regent LP since 2025.[2]
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 March 26, 2007 cover of InfoWorld | |
| First issue | 11 December 1978 |
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| Final issue | 2 April 2007[1] (since published online) |
| Company | FoundryCo, Inc. (Regent LP) |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | San Francisco |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0199-6649 |
Overview
Based in San Francisco, IW has contributors and supporting staff based across the U.S.[3] Since its founding, InfoWorld's readership has largely consisted of IT and business professionals.
InfoWorld focuses on how-to, analysis, and editorial content from a mixture of experienced technology journalists and working technology practitioners. The site averages 4.6 million monthly page views and 1.1 million monthly unique visitors.[4]
History
InfoWorld, the weekly paper of the personal-computer industry ... has enough gossip, shoptalk, and scandal to be interesting even if you don't get excited about computers.
— Edward Mendelson in The Yale Review, 1986[5]
The magazine was founded by Jim Warren in 1978 as The Intelligent Machines Journal (IMJ).[6]
In February 1980, one year after being sold to International Data Group (IDG),[7] the magazine changed its name to InfoWorld.[1] In 1986, the Robert X. Cringely column began; for many, that pseudonymous column was the face of InfoWorld and its close ties to Silicon Valley in particular.[1][8][9]
Up to and including the 15 June 1987 issue 24, volume 9, InfoWorld was published by Popular Computing, Inc., a subsidiary of CW Communications, Inc. Since then, it has been published by InfoWorld Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of IDG Communications, Inc.
Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe was CEO and publisher from 1991 to 1996, and contributed a weekly column until 2000.[10][11] As the magazine transitioned to be exclusively Web-based, the final print edition was dated 2 April 2007 (Volume 29, Issue 14, Number 1384).[1]
In its web incarnation, InfoWorld has transitioned away from widely available news stories to a focus on how-to, expert testing, and thought leadership.[12]