Computer (Publishing House)

Assets

• Site Computerra.ru (closed in the summer of 2017, resumed work in 2018)

Closed and sold assets

• Business magazine (in 2014 it came under the control of Infrafonda RVC)
• Site ibusiness.ru (in 2013 transferred to another owner, closed in 2017)
• CIO Magazine (closed in July 2013)
• Computer magazine (closed in December 2009) with a regional version of Computer +
• "Home Computer" magazine (closed in 2008),
• GAME EXE log (closed in 2006),
• Journal "Infobusiness" (closed in 2003).

History

2018

IT-Grad becomes the founder of the publication Computerra.ru

Since December 2018, the Russian IT company LLC IT-Grad"" has been the founder of the media "Computerra" (Computerra.ru).

Computerra.ru resumed work

In the spring of 2018, the website of the publication Computerra.ru was redone and resumed work. Apparently, with a new owner.

2017: Stop updating Computerra.ru and sell domain

In the summer of 2017, the site ceased to be updated Computerra.ru. In December 2017, it was announced that Dmitry Mendrelyuk had sold the domain Computerra.ru.

2014: "Business Journal" entirely comes under the control of "Infrafunda RVC"

Since April 14, 2014, Infrafond RVC became the sole owner of Business Magazine.

2013

Transfer iBusiness.ru to another owner

In the spring of 2013, Dmitry Mendrelyuk got rid of the ibusiness.ru resource, transferring it to the top manager of the Krok company Veronika Taraba. Earlier, the media manager intended to make him a social network for businessmen, but did not succeed.

The portal "is quite capable of generating income, but Dmitry was most manned by the laurels of Zuckerberg, and the social network of the resource now has more than 3 thousand members, and not more than 3 million," explained CNews Taraba.

Merge all sites in the domain Computerra.ru

In 2013, all individual sites of the Computer ID were merged into a domain Computerra.ru. As sections, it included the sites of the Computer and CIO-world.ru.

CIO log closed

In July 2013, the Computer Publishing House decided to close the CIO print magazine dedicated to the problems of Chief information officers of enterprises, IT infrastructure management, etc.

didn't like CIO magazine for a long time myself, I didn't do it and only sometimes looked through it," Dmitry Mendrelyuk, founder and head of Computerra Publishing House, told CNews.

The publication, according to Mendrelyuk, "brought good profit," but "I have neither the capabilities nor, most importantly, the desire to rebuild and develop the paper version."

At the same time, Mendrelyuk considers the subject of the CIO interesting and says that he will deal with it in a "slightly different paradigm" within the framework of the "big section" on the Computer website.

"Sooner or later, the magazine would no longer be profitable," explains the publisher. - The question is where it is easier to increase profits, in paper or online. I believe that online and therefore closed to not spray resources, but focus^[1].

The general staff of the publishing house "Computerra" decreases in proportion to the closure of paper versions of publications, says Dmitry Mendrelyuk, but "at the same time it is somewhat smoothed out by the increase in the number of employees in the editorial offices of sites."

2011: Infrafond RVC invests in Business Magazine

In December 2011, the board of Infrafond RVC approved the fund's first transaction: Business Magazine, which now concentrates on venture capital investments, became its portfolio company.

"Business Magazine" has been published since 2002 by the publishing house "CompuTerra." "Infrafond" received 37.5% in the company, the volume of investments of the fund in the magazine is not disclosed.

funds invested by Infrafond RVC will be used to implement an investment program aimed at developing the existing media business of the publication to a qualitatively new level," explained the founder of the magazine Dmitry Mendrelyuk, whose words are given in the message.

At the same time, the head of the RVKIgory Agamirzyan, speaking about the goals of the fund, said that his first priority is "to make effective investments in businesses that provide technology companies with the necessary set of services and services."

"We expect that the activities of Infrafond RVC will significantly accelerate the creation of the so-called" soft infrastructure "of the technological market," he said the^[2]

2009: Closing of Computer magazine

In December 2009, Computer Publishing House stopped producing the same computer weekly, published since 1992.

2008: Close the Home Computer log

In 2008, the Home Computer magazine was closed.

2005-2006: Attempt to sell a publishing house. Revenue $6.3 million

In April, 2006 IDES Computerra distributed to several publishing houses the offer to take part in the closed tender for purchase of IDES^[3].

As it became known to Kommersant, Gameland ID and SK-Press ID confirmed receipt of an offer to take part in a closed tender for the purchase of Computer ID. And the general director of the publishing house "Ashet Filipaki Shkulev" Viktor Shkulev said that his company received a similar offer from Computerra in 2005.

According to one of the participants in the media market, this year the shareholders of ID reduced the price of it from 10 million to 5 million dollars.

Market participants believe that, despite the good business indicators of Computer ID, it will be difficult for shareholders to sell it. Gameland CEO Dmitry Agarunov noted that "so far it is a profitable publishing house, but its profit is declining due to a constant drop in circulation and advertising sales."

In 2005, sales of ID amounted to $6.3 million^[3].

2003: Infobusiness magazine closed

The print journal Infobusiness is closed. His receiver was the site ibussines.ru. Then Mendreluk told CNews that the magazine was "quite cost-effective":

"I think we should leave on time. Closing the magazine in a situation where nothing else remains to be done is the worst thing to come up with. I had a desire to close the magazine while it is in confident positions. "

1996-2004: Startime "Computers"

The "star" time for "Computer" was the second half of the 1990s - the beginning of the 2000s. The circulation reached 60-120 thousand copies. A number of third-party projects were opened - Computer, Infobusiness, Game.EXE, Weekly Magazine, Home Computer and others (many of them were subsequently closed).

1995: Mendrelyuk gets full control over the publication

In 1995, Mendrelyuk bought their share and became the sole director of the agency.

1992: Founding of the publication

In early 1992, the head of the computer section and a member of the board of directors of the Moscow Commodity Exchange Dmitry Mendrelyuk created a daily e-mail newsletter with news about the computer market Russia called Computerra. At that time, a number of publications about computers already existed in Russia (Computerworld, PC World, Computer Press, etc.), but they provided only foreign information. The word "Computera" itself stands for "computer Russian agency," later it began to be understood with the end of -terra (lat. Terra - "land"). It was possible to sell about 20 mailings for 100, dollars the customers were mainly companies. The low profitability and non-scalability of the model forced to move from a subscription to an advertising model.

The founders of the newspaper were Stipler, represented by Vladislav Ulendeev, and Computerland, represented by Mikhail Kapyrin (Computerland made only half of the contribution, so it was excluded from the founders).

"Minus the first" issue of the newspaper was published on September 14, 1992 for the founders with a circulation of 20 copies. The number was checked in the office of Intermicro, printed on a printer and propagated on xerox; it was eight sheets of A3 format, fastened with a clerical staple. And on October 19, 1992, the "zero" issue of the newspaper with a circulation of 25 thousand was published in the Moskovskaya Pravda printing house, the cost of printing was $300. Part of the copies of the "zero" number "Computer" was distributed for free at the exhibition "Informatics," which was a successful advertising move.

At first, the newspaper cost about 200 rubles and was black and white, from April 1993 it became 16-strip, from August 1994 - color, and in August 1995 a magazine of the A4 format with a volume of more than 40 pages was published.

See also

• Media about IT and telecom (Russian market)

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