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**// __Electronic News__ //** is an online publication that currently covers just the semi conductor production equipment industry. It was originally a weekly trade newspaper, which covered all aspects of the electronics industry including semiconductors, computers, software, communications, space and even television electronics.  The History Of Electronic News

Fairchild Publications started the newspaper in 1957 , as a complement to its other trade newspapers, including Woman's wear daily , Home Furnishing Daily, Supermarket News, among others. At its peak in 1984 , Electronic News took in $25 million in revenue with margins above 50%.The following year, the newspaper began losing advertising and influence to rival Electronic Engineering Times , beginning a decline that eventually led to the newspaper's demise. In 1971, journalist Don Hoefler published a series of articles entitled "Silicon Valley, USA" in Electronic News. Also in 1971, Electronic News was where Intel first advertised the Intel 4004 microprocessor, considered to be the first single-chip micropronessor . A decade later, in 1981, when IBM's top-secret project Acorn emerged as the IBM personal computer - the PC - the first reports were published in Electronic News in the weeks before the introduction, much to IBM'S <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">consternation.Also in 1982, Electronic News communications industry reporter Frank Barbetta broke the story on the Bell System Divestiture <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">which resulted in the break-up of American Telephone& Telegraph company. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">and bureaus in Boston, Whashington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicaco, Minneapolis and Tokyo. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">In addition stringers <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">reported in from more than 100 locations around the world. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">In 1967, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">the paper's corporate parent, Fairchild publication <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">was acquired by capital cities broadcasting, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">which went on to acquire the American Broadcasting Comapny <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">, now a unit of The Walt Disney Company. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">The publication was transferred from Fairchild to chilton <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">, then a division of Capital Cities/ABC, as the result of a reorganization. After barely a year as part of Chilton, the paper was in 1991 sold to the publishing house International data group <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">. After a year of losses, IDG sold the paper in 1993 to an independent investor group put together by one-time publisher Zachary Dicker. In 1996 the paper was sold to its current owner Reed Business Information <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">The final edition of Electronic News to be printed on paper was dated December 2, 2002. It has since that date been published exclusively online.

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