Our sources were right on this one: Tech professionals-focused news and info network Tom’s Hardware Guide (and its parent company TG Publishing) has merged with French B2B tech media company BestofMedia Group. The companies said in the release that one of the top- three online teh-media publishing companies worldwide, and and one of the top-two in pan-European rankings, the other big ones being CNET and IDG.
The first site THG was founded in 1996 by Dr. Thomas Pabst, a German, and the company focuses on news and information for IT professionals, early adopters and technology innovators. It has since expanded operations in the United States, Europe and Asia and features subsidiary sites in eight languages, this Wikipedia history says. Other sites published by the company include GearDigest, MobilityGuru, TwitchGuru, among others. The company is now based in Los Angeles.
BestofMedia Group was founded in 2000, and its online media properties include BestofMicro.com, Presence-PC.com, Infos-du-net.com, JeuxVideoPC.com, and JeuxVideo-Flash.com.
More details in release.