PMC, formerly Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), is an American digital media

Digital media

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital form. It can refer to the technical aspect of storage and transmission Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital (as opposed to analog) form. It can refer to the technical aspect of...

 company controlled and operated by its Chairman and CEO Jay Penske

Jay Penske

Jay Penske is an American media and publishing entrepreneur, born in New York City and currently based in Los Angeles.-Early life:Penske is the youngest son of Roger Penske. Penske went to high school at St. Mary's Preparatory. At St. Mary's, Penske was named All-League, All-State, All-American,...

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The company operates Boy Genius Report

Boy Genius Report

Boy Genius Report is a weblog that specializes in technology and consumer gadgets. Founded in October 2006 by anonymous web personality Boy Genius , it is most well known for being a pioneer in breaking news within the mobile gadget sector. According to Technorati, BGR is ranked among the Top...

, Deadline.com

Deadline.com

Deadline.com, part of Jay Penske's PMC, is an online magazine, founded and edited by Nikki Finke.-Publication:The site is updated several times a day, with the infotainment industry as its focus.-History:...

, OnCars.com, HollywoodLife.com, Movieline

Movieline

Movieline is a website, formerly a Los Angeles-based film and entertainment magazine, started in 1985 as a local magazine and went national in 1989. Known for its cult status and popularity among film critics, the magazine eventually was retooled and named Movieline's Hollywood Life. The magazine...

, MailTimes and TVLine

TVLine

TVLine is a website devoted to information, news and spoilers of television programs.-History:In late 2010, Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello announced that he would be leaving EW after nearly two years in their employ to establish a TV-centered website with MMC, the media company founded by...

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History

In 2004 Jay Penske, son of automobile racing figure Roger Penske

Roger Penske

Roger S. Penske is the owner of the automobile racing team Penske Racing, the Penske Corporation, and other automotive related businesses. A winning racer in the late 1950s, Penske was named 1961's Sports Car Club of America Driver of the Year by Sports Illustrated...

, joined and became CEO of Velocity Services, an affinity marketing

Affinity marketing

Affinity Marketing is a targeted way of marketing products and services. By linking complementary brands, it can develop them into lasting partnerships and strategic alliances.- Development of Affinity Marketing :...

 and Internet services company operating as Interactive Digital Publishing Group. The company acquired the mail.com

Mail.com

Mail.com is a web portal and web-based email service provider owned by the German internet company United Internet. It offers news articles and videos and a free webmail application with unlimited storage.-Features:...

 domain, and re-launched it as a new service in 2007.

In 2008 the company raised $35 million of venture capital financing

Venture capital financing

Venture capital financing is a type of financing by venture capital: the type of private equity capital is provided as seed funding to early-stage, high-potential, growth companies and more often after the seed funding round as growth funding round in the interest of generating a return through an...

 from an investor group led by Quadrangle Capital Partners. In 2009 it bought Deadline Hollywood Daily, an entertainment industry insider blog

Blog

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, from its founder Nikki Finke

Nikki Finke

Nikki Finke is an American journalist and blogger. She is Founder and Editor in chief and President of Deadline.com, a website with original content consisting of her and other veteran showbiz journalists' reporting and commentary on the business of the entertainment industry formerly known as...

, in a cash and stock earnout transaction valued at $10–15 million.

On April 27, 2010, Mail.com Media Corp. announced it had acquired American technology blog 'Boy Genius Report

Boy Genius Report

Boy Genius Report is a weblog that specializes in technology and consumer gadgets. Founded in October 2006 by anonymous web personality Boy Genius , it is most well known for being a pioneer in breaking news within the mobile gadget sector. According to Technorati, BGR is ranked among the Top...

' via a press release posted on Boy Genius's website. The Boy Genius Report announced its intentions to relocate its website to newly acquired "www.bgr.com", which was launched in May 2010. In November 2010, the company launched TVLine.com, a consumer TV focused website, operated by co-founder and Editor in Chief Michael Ausiello, formerly of Entertainment Weekly.

Mail.com was sold to the German company United Internet

United Internet

United Internet AG is a German Internet services company. With 2.91 million DSL customer contracts, it is a leading ISP in Germany. It is headquartered in Montabaur, Rhineland-Palatinate...

in 2010, however MMC continues to be an exclusive content provider to United Internet and the Mail.com portal, and launched a German language version of BGR.com in March, 2011.