Computer Channel

The Computer Channel was an Internet portal of Gruner Jahr, which was founded at the peak of the Internet boom in June 1999 as a limited company. The company started with a large staff salaried editors on the work and possessed in addition to offices in Munich and Frankfurt am Main correspondent offices in the U.S. ( San Francisco) and the UK ( London).

After several months of testing, the portal was officially opened in February 2000 and was for two years to reach the largest German-language offerings in this area. In addition to the journalistic part of news and information on the topics of computer and the internet world, especially the -edited the download section was popular. , 2001, the Computer Channel about 75 permanent employees.

Despite the high number of users presented Gruner Jahr an Internet portal in 2002 because it was not profitable. "The reason for the restructuring are the still low sales in e-commerce and online advertising, which lag far behind the expectations of Gruner Jahr, the publisher " ( Golem.de ).