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It is odd to see a company like Ziff Davis, that once sold for $2 billion dollars, be broken into pieces and sold for a fraction of that.

For the current bust-up, the company is being split into the gaming group, which includes video gaming magazines and Web sites, and the enterprise division, which includes PC Magazine - once the biggest magazine tracked by the Publishers Information Bureau in terms of ad pages.
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For the sake of argument, Is it just me or do all these deals like this (ala AOL, ZD, etc.) where companies that went for billions at some point end up going for peanuts later? Makes you wonder .
 
I dunno. AT&T was sued and forced to split up. Now they're buying them all back.
 
Companies get big and then lose their focus, and forget about the customers that put them there in the first place. Look at what happened to ZDTV/TechTV/ crappy G4 TV. I miss the good days of Leo and Kate, and later when it was Tech TV was still pretty good. G4 ruined it. May they burn forever...
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I HATE G4.

And why did they call the new abomination "Attack of the Show"? Dumbest name ever.
 
G4tv does suck. Why does every show have to be overtly sexual? The occasional joke is ok but almost every show on G4 including X-PLAY, go out of thier way to make overtly sexual jokes, and it takes away from the show...

When they had their E3 coverage last year, you could tell the only reason the host are on is because they are attractive. The one chick was showing tons of cleavage and barely understood what a computer game is. At least MORGAN WEBB is hot and truly knows about computers and computer games, the rest of the channel is just awannabe SpikeTV without the martial arts movies...
 
Does this affect the ZDnet sites Cnet owns I wonder. It would be nice to see them seperated from Cnet. I'm tired of seeing the same review content on 3 different websites when I look for various electronics product review.
 
Hopefully people smarten up and we see Apple on their one of these days or they smarten up and stop charging too damn much for their shit
 
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