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Main article: Media about IT and a telecom (the market of Russia)
History
2018: Closing of the German TomsHardware.de
In March, 2018 TomsHardware.de stops the work. The online edition started in 1996 under other name, for last 22 years it drew attention with interesting tests and reviews, let sometimes too close to the foul more than once. Exact date of switching off of servers is not announced yet, but work of editors and administrators of a forum will be stopped.
At this time the owner of the TomsHardware brand was the American company Purch Group. It is also responsible for work of other online editions, such as AnandTech or Tom's IT Pro which were absorbed in recent years. The publisher does not disclose the official reasons of project closure, but the command of the German Tom's Hardware Guide published a post where specifies the economic reasons in the forum. The edition could not develop successfully in the specific advertizing market of the German-speaking countries.
The German division of Tom's Hardware Guide completely depended on advertizing revenues. However readers even more often used advertizing disablers.
In the best years the Tom's Hardware Guide project gained up to 33 million viewings pages a month. The fate of editors and other employees of the edition is still unknown.
Attendance of THG.ru fell lower than 500 thousand users by this time a month who browse only one million pages a month.
2012: Conflict with the founder of the edition in Russia Dmitry Chekanov
During blossoming in 2010 the monthly audience of a resource reached 1.7 million users who browsed more than 9 million pages a month. But after leaving of Dmitry Chekanov, the founder and the Chief Editor of THG.ru protesting against dominance of invited and advertizing papers of local authors, attendance began to decrease. In 2012 Dmitry Chekanov filed a lawsuit the claim against violation of its copyright of articles and reviews published on the website THG.ru and achieved its satisfaction[1].
2007: The edition is sold to the French BestofMedia Group
In 2007 the project was sold to the French BestofMedia Group.
2003: Start of the edition in Russia
In Russia the Tom's Hardware Guide project works since 2003 at the domain THG.ru.
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