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...
As we predicted back in March, component distributor Arrow Electronics has agreed to buy a number of publishing assets in North America and Asia from UBM plc. The official announcement is due tomorrow, June 3rd, and it seems likely that these assets will be marketed under Arrow's AspenCore brand. We don't yet know the full extent of the 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...
A guest post by Graham Pitcher, Group Editor, New Electronics Editors of a certain vintage will remember the ‘good old days’ of the printed press release. Every day, we’d see – and open – hundreds of press releases. The quality of the press release varied. Some were many pages long and it took dedication to Read more...
With the recently announced departure of Alex Wolfe, there's a vacancy for an editor/brand director at EE Times. Interested parties should contact Patrick Mannion, brand director for EDN: [email protected].
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...