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April, 1996

Launch of TomsHardware.com

June 27, 2000

Launch of Bestofmicro.com

June 2002

Acquisition of Buy Central (France and Italy)

January 2004

Buycentral (France and Italy) is sold to Lycos group for 4.5M euros

November 2004

Acquisition of Presence-pc.com, the first independent source of technology information in France (computers, multimedia & telecommunication)

June 2005

Acquisition of Infos-du-net.com, a site with a community of 100,000 members keeping up to date with the latest in software and internet news

August 2006

Acquisition of the sites www.jeuxvideopc.com and www.jeuxvideoflash.com, leaders in the field of PC video games

April 2007

Bestofmedia Group and TG Publishing merge to create a tech publishing powerhouse. The combined company becomes one of the top three online media companies for technology worldwide

June 2007

Antoine Boulin appointed CEO of Bestofmedia LLC, the company's US headquarters in Culver City, California

July 2008

Acquisition of Computing.Net

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