Who is Buying the Ziff Davis Enterprise Group? NY-Based PE, That’s Who

A friend today clued me into who is in the hunt for the Ziff Davis enterprise group (Baseline, CIO Insight, eWeek, and related Web sites, shows, etc). The buyer is a New York City-based private equity firm called Insight Venture Partners. IVP is primarily invested in four different industry sectors: application software, infrastructure software, Internet and new media, and software-enabled services. My source tells me that the deal is all but signed and that people close to the deal are surprised that it hasn’t happened yet–but are assured that it will. Read the rest of this entry »