CMP Media and Gruppo Mondadori Announce Exclusive Online License Agreement in ItalyDeal With Italy's Largest Publishing Company Represents a Global Expansion of CMP's Online Products and ComponentsPRNewswire The Internet Group of CMP Media Inc. (http://www.cmpnet.com/), a leading provider of high-tech news and information, today announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Gruppo Mondadori (http://www.mondadori.com/), Italy's largest publishing company. The agreement signals a further step in the global expansion of the Internet Group's online products and components, including TechWeb and WinMag.com. The agreement allows Gruppo Mondadori to license content from CMP Media's major online destinations, including TechWeb (http://www.techweb.com/), for use on Mondadori.com as well as online versions of Mondadori's top magazines. Mondadori.com users can access TechWeb's content in Italian through its technology hub, MyTech (http://www.mytech.mondadori.com/). TechWeb is CMP Media's most popular online site of news, information and services for IT professionals and includes the product-testing site Winmag.com. "We are thrilled to continue the expansion of CMP's Internet offerings to global communities and audiences, and partnering with Italy's leading publishing company will certainly help us achieve this goal," said Seth Nichols, CEO of CMP Media's Internet Group. "The Mondadori agreement underscores our commitment to worldwide expansion, and we look forward to moving into new markets." Mondadori is one of CMP's Internet Group's largest online licensing partners to date. CMP Media's Internet Group provides integrated online business-to-business information, tools and services for the high-technology professional working in the Internet economy. The Internet Group's products, tools and services are featured on CMP's over 100 Web sites and online communities including: EDTN Network (http://www.edtn.com/); Channel Web (http://www.channelweb.com/); and Planet IT (http://www.planetit.com/). "We believe that CMP Media's online content will provide our users with the best high-technology information, news and services in the world," said Roberto Mazzoni, Web Publisher of MyTech of Gruppo Mondadori. "Forming an exclusive alliance with a company as trusted and valued as CMP Media will bolster our online strategy and help us maintain our leading position in the Italian market." Mondadori's MyTech provides thousands of original articles and reports, branded sites, IT magazines and services, as well as daily updating about market, alliances and joint ventures, politics and law, and all the digital universe services (PC's, internet, business software and development products). About CMP Media's Internet Group CMP Media's Internet Group is a single-point provider of integrated business-to-business information, tools and services designed to enable high-technology professionals to overcome the speed and complexity of working in the Internet economy. The Internet Group's products, tools and services are featured on the Web sites of leading CMP publications (e.g. EETimes, InformationWeek, CRN) and on CMP Media's four industry-focused branded web communities: EDTN Network (http://www.edtn.com/); Channel Web (http://www.channelweb.com/); Planet IT (http://www.planetit.com/) and CommWeb (http://www.commweb.com/). The Internet Group, which is headquartered in Boston, is a division of CMP Media Inc., a leading provider of high-tech news, information and services. About Mondadori.com Mondadori.com, http://www.mondadori.com/, has been operative since the spring of 1999, and brings together the destination sites of Mondadori's news, women's leisure and technology titles, as well as Mondadori, Einaudi, Electa and Elemond books. The site also includes the IT hub MyTech (mytech.mondadori.com) with VOLftp, the Italian leader in the downloading of software, games and images, and the women's hub Mondodonna (mondodonna.mondadori.com). Mondadori.com aims to strengthen its development in the online market through a strategy based on international alliances with category leaders (including Altavista and a partnership with Microsoft for the creation of the first eBooks in the Italian market). It also guarantees innovative relationships and products, and a representative role in the development of e-commerce. SOURCE: CMP Media Inc. Contact: Peter Hyman of Middleberg Euro rscg, 212-699-2566, Website: http://www.mondadori.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html or |