CNET

American company; tech media website
Organization online_newspaper Q1544247
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CNET was founded on March 5, 1994 as a joint-stock company . It operated under this legal structure until its dissolution on May 15, 2008 . The organization was established and ceased operations within these defined dates, with no additional details provided about its activities or ownership changes .

CNET

Summary

CNET is an online newspaper[1]. CNET ranks in the top 7% of online_newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (251 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • CNET is in the country of United States[3].
  • CNET's instance of is recorded as online newspaper[4].
  • CNET's owned by is recorded as CNET Networks[5].
  • CNET's logo image is recorded as CNET (2022).svg[6].
  • CNET's headquarters location is recorded as San Francisco[7].
  • CNET's ISNI is recorded as 0000000098270711[8].
  • CNET's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 145624829[9].
  • CNET's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2004101923[10].
  • CNET's Commons category is recorded as CNET[11].
  • +1994-03-05T00:00:00Z marks the founding of CNET[12].
  • CNET was dissolved in +2008-05-15T00:00:00Z[13].
  • CNET's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0by1jyj[14].
  • CNET's official website is recorded as https://www.cnet.com/[15].
  • CNET's official website is recorded as https://www.cnetfrance.fr/[16].
  • CNET's topic's main category is recorded as Category:CNET[17].
  • CNET's main subject is recorded as technology journalism[18].
  • CNET's Rotten Tomatoes ID is recorded as critics/source/892[19].
  • CNET's described by source is recorded as Columbia Journalism Review's Guide to Online News Startups[20].
  • CNET's political alignment is recorded as syncretic politics[21].
  • CNET's legal form is recorded as joint-stock company[22].
  • CNET's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+131'}[23].
  • CNET's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+154'}[24].
  • CNET's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+152'}[25].
  • CNET's X is recorded as CNET[26].
  • CNET's X is recorded as CNETNews[27].

Body

Founding

+1994-03-05T00:00:00Z marks the founding of CNET[12].

Operations

CNET's headquarters location is recorded as San Francisco[7].

Ownership

CNET's owned by is recorded as CNET Networks[5].

Dissolution

CNET was dissolved in +2008-05-15T00:00:00Z[13].

Why It Matters

CNET ranks in the top 7% of online_newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (251 views/month).[2] CNET has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] CNET is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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  23. [25] . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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