AspenCore, publisher of EETimes, EDN and other outlets serving the electronics design market, is closing its Boise, Idaho, office and consolidating the work to Denver, Colorado as part of a wider restructuring of the business. Sources close to the company told us that there will be around 20 job losses. Graham Kelly, previously VP of Operations Read more...
Author: Alix Paultre, editorial director, Power Systems Design: One of the things to love about publishing is its open access to the industry. In fact, a crank call as a child that went well with Isaac Asimov (too long to describe here) is what got me enamored with journalism in the first place. I have Read more...
2016 marks my 32nd year running a B2B technical content marketing and PR agency so when I visited New York last December and caught up with a couple of veterans from the publishing side it was interesting to hear their views how marketing communications and publishing strategies have developed in the last few years, and how they're likely to change in the future. Read more...
Patrick Mannion, VP and Group Brand Director at UBM Americas (which includes the division previously known as UBM Tech), was laid off earlier today as the company looks for further cost reductions. Despite his marketing-style job title, Patrick is one of the best known and most respected names in electronics journalism. In recent times he steered content strategy for UBM's flagship electronics Read more...
The original deadline of January 10th for UBM Tech's ACE Awards entries has been extended to Friday, January 24th at 11:59 ET.
Veteran electronics writer and editor, Ron Wilson, has left UBM Electronics less than two weeks after being named content director for Test & Measurement World and DesignCon. We understand he's gone to Altera, presumably in a technical writing/editing role. UBM is said to be making a new senior editorial appointment soon, but we don't yet Read more...
After only 5 months at Hearst, Patrick Mannion rejoined UBM as content director for EDN and DesignLines on May 18. Prior to his surprise jump to Hearst's Electronic Products in December last year, Patrick had been with EETimes since 2000. In another editorial change, Ron Wilson will now be EDN's editor-at-large, run the Practical Chip Read more...
United Business Media has announced that its subsidiary, Canon Communications LLC, has transferred Canon Communications Asia Pte. Ltd. and Beijing Reed Advertising Services Co., Ltd. – which together own EDN China, EDN Asia and certain associated titles – to eMedia Asia Limited, UBM’s joint venture with Global Sources Ltd. in which UBM has a 39.9% Read more...
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UBM, publisher of EE Times, has announced that it is to purchase Canon Communications for $287 million, subject to anti-trust clearance. With respect to the media that serve the electronic engineering community, this is very significant. Two of the world's top three brands, EDN and EE Times, are now under common ownership. And Penton's Electronic Read more...