ViacomCBS Inc. is close to selling CNET Media Group to Red Ventures LLC, according to people familiar with the matter, for $500 million, reports Benjamin Mullin of The Wall Street Journal. Mullin writes, “Red Ventures,...
ViacomCBS Inc. is in talks to sell technology news and reviews site CNET to digital-media holding company Red Ventures LLC, reports Benjamin Mullin and Sahil Patel of The Wall Street Journal. Mullin and Patel report, “The price being...
Ina Fried, a technology correspondent at Axios, writes about the decade she spent at CNET, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Fried writes, “But when we ventured outside our tech home turf, people often...
Tech news site CNET has put together a look at its history as it celebrates 25 years in existence. You’ll want to watch to see an early Ryan Seacrest.
Elinor Mills of CNET writes about the time that the tech news site was banned by Google. Mills writes, “After I pitched the story to my editor, Jim Kerstetter, I spent a month researching and...
ViacomCBS Inc. is weighing options for CNET after receiving takeover interest in the tech product review site, reports Ed Hammond and Nabila Ahmed. Hammond and Ahmed report, “A number of potential suitors contacted ViacomCBS about the...
CNET has stopped publishing its quarterly magazine, reports Troy Wolverton of Business Insider. Wolverton reports, “The organization informed employees of the closure of CNET Magazine at a company meeting last month, current and former...
Eli Blumenthal has been hired by tech news site CNET to cover software, apps and services in its New York office. He started Monday. Blumenthal has been at USA Today since December 2016 as...
Ian Sherr, an executive editor at tech news site CNET News, has been named an editor at large at the website. “Now I’ll be writing and reporting even more stories I’m passionate about!” he...
Connie Guglielmo, who has overseen CNET News since 2014, has been promoted to editor in chief of all of CNET’s operations. That includes reviews and other parts of the CBS Interactive subsidiary. Lindsey Turrentine was previously...
