PC Magazine Editors Predict the Future of Technology and the Internet

Continued Internet growth, including expanded e-commerce and Internet development, occupy the first three spots on PC Magazine's top 10 predictions for the 1999 technology market. December 29, 1998

Pen Scanner Enables Capture of Website Addresses From Print Media

Symbol Technologies, Inc. December 22, 1998

John Kennelly Named Publisher of Automobile Magazine

PriMedia Consumer Magazines, a unit of PriMedia Inc. December 22, 1998

Mac Publishing's CEO Colin Crawford Named Publisher of eMediaweekly

Mac Publishing's board of directors has announced that Colin Crawford, CEO and president of Mac Publishing will assume the title of publisher of eMediaweekly, a newsweekly for digital media managers. December 22, 1998

The Cat in The Hat Hosts U.S. Kids Compute!

The Learning Company, Inc. December 22, 1998

Liberty Group Publishing Acquires Life Newspapers

Liberty Group Publishing has announced the acquisition of the Chicago area's largest family owned multi-weekly newspaper chain, Oak Brook-based Life Printing & Publishing Co. December 19, 1998

Screen Actors Guild Releases Report on Minorities and Women in Television

The Screen Actors Guild, the 95,000 member union representing performers nationwide, today issued a commissioned report showing that prime time and daytime television significantly underrepresented large segments of the United States population, including women, Latino/Hispanics, Asian Pacific Americans, Native American Indians, the disabled and seniors. December 19, 1998

MCY Music Launches Website

MCY Music will launch its website at the 1999 MIDEM conference in Cannes, France on January 24. December 19, 1998

CMP Media Plans to Revive the Byte Brand in 1999

CMP Media annoucned that it plans to revive the venerable BYTE brand exclusively as an online product, BYTE. December 19, 1998

Impeachment Means Good Times for Political Cartoonists Online

A new website called PoliticalCartoons. December 18, 1998

New Internet Portal Targeted to the Affluent

Millionaire. December 18, 1998

EAI and Callaway & Kirk Join Creative Forces

Engineering Animation, Inc. December 18, 1998

Baptist Introduces New Internet Health Magazine

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation is offering Web surfers health information through its new electronic magazine, Baptist OnLine. December 18, 1998

Houghton Mifflin Signs Contract to Enter Elementary School Science Market

Houghton Mifflin Company has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Discovery Works, a Pearson Education K-6 market-leading science program, originally published by Silver Burdett Ginn. December 18, 1998

HBO Launches New Website for Kids

HBO has launched a new entertainment website for children at hbo4kids. December 18, 1998

Harcourt Brace Announces Licensing Agreements With Smithsonian Institution

Harcourt Brace & Company, a provider of educational products and services, announced that it has signed agreements with the Smithsonian Institution that facilitate the use of Smithsonian Internet resources in correlation with social studies textbooks from Harcourt Brace's elementary and secondary school imprints. December 15, 1998

Kagan World Media to Acquire Asia Cable and Satellite World Magazine

Kagan World Media, Inc. December 15, 1998

Stephen Petranek Named Editor-in-Chief, Discover Magazine

Stephen Petranek will join Buena Vista Publishing Group Inc. December 15, 1998

JuniorNet to Offer Zillions Magazine Content

JuniorNet, a commercial-free online service for children ages 3-12, announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Zillions Magazine to offer specially-created Zillions content on the JuniorNet service. December 15, 1998

EarthWeb Launches Y2KInfo

EarthWeb announced the debut of Y2KInfo, an online Year 2000 resource geared towards Information Technology (IT) professionals. December 15, 1998

Primedia Strengthens Position in Teen Magazines

Primedia Inc. December 15, 1998

EMAP plc to Acquire The Petersen Companies

EMAP plc and The Petersen Companies, Inc. December 15, 1998

InvestorMap.com Website Launches

InvestorMap. December 14, 1998

The Petersen Companies to Increase its Portfolio

The Petersen Companies, Inc. December 14, 1998

Faulkner & Gray to Launch Two New Publications

Faulkner & Gray, Inc. December 14, 1998