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McWorld

McWorld is a term sometimes used to describe the spreading of McDonald's restaurants throughout the world as the result of globalization, and more generally to describe the effects of international McDonaldization of services and commercialization of goods and services as an element of globalization as a whole....
, a term for globalisation

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing

Mac Publishing

Mac Publishing is a publishing company based in San Francisco, California, and is wholly owned by the International Data Group. It is the publisher of Macworld magazine and numerous web sites, including and ....
, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
. Published since 1984, the magazine has the largest audited circulation (both total and newsstand) of Macintosh-focused magazines in North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, more than double its nearest competitor, Mac|Life (formerly MacAddict).

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Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing

Mac Publishing

San Francisco, California

North America

David Bunnell

David Bunnell is a media industry entrepreneur and technology pioneer who was involved in the earliest days of personal computers revolution and industry....
(publisher) and Andrew Fluegelman

Andrew Fluegelman

Andrew Cardozo Fluegelman was a publisher, programmer and Lawyer best known as the inventor of what is now known as the shareware business model for software marketing....
(editor).

In 1997, the publication was renamed to Macworld, incorporating MacUser (a name reflected subtly on the magazine's Table of Contents page) to reflect the consolidation of the Ziff-Davis-owned MacUser
MacUser

MacUser is a biweekly computer magazine published by Dennis Publishing Ltd. and licensed by Felden in the UK.In 1985 Felix Dennis? Dennis Publishing, the creators of MacUser in the UK, licensed the name and ?mouse-rating? symbol for MacUser to Ziff-Davis Publishing for use in the rest of the world....
magazine into the International Data Group-owned Macworld within the new Mac Publishing joint venture between the two publishers. In 1999, the combined company also purchased the online publication MacCentral Online, because Macworld didn't have a powerful online news component at the time. In late 2001 International Data Group (IDG) bought out Ziff-Davis' share of Mac Publishing, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of IDG.

The magazine is published in many countries, either by other IDG subsidiaries or by outside publishers who have licensed the brand name and its content. These editions include Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
(Macwelt), Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
(MacWorld), Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
and Indonesia

Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
. Its content is also incorporated into a number of other IDG publications.

The magazine's publisher licenses its name to another IDG subsidiary, IDG World Expo, for the Macworld Conference & Expo

Macworld Conference & Expo

Produced by Boston-based IDG World Expo, Macworld Conference & Expo is a trade show dedicated to the Apple Inc. Macintosh platform with conference tracks held annually in the United States, usually during the second week of January....
, which takes place every January at the Moscone Convention Center

Moscone Center

The Moscone Center is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls: Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, and a three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street....
in San Francisco.

In additional to publishing a monthly print magazine, Macworld also operates numerous web sites, including , , , and .

Podcast

The 'Macworld Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast published by Macworld

Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California....
, a magazine and web site devoted to Apple's

Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
Macintosh computers. It is hosted by Macworld Senior Editor Chris Breen

Chris Breen

Christopher Breen is a writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Computer's Apple Macintosh computers and related technologies....
, and consists mostly of interviews with Macworld editors and other Mac luminaries. Macworld editorial director Jason Snell

Jason Snell

Jason Snell is a writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Computer's Apple Macintosh computers and related technologies....
is a frequent guest and occasional guest host. The program's original host was Cyrus Farivar.

The Macworld Podcast began life on April 26, 2005 as the "Geek Factor Podcast," but was upgraded into the official "Macworld Podcast" with its fifth installment, in August 2005.

Macworld

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