Tom's Hardware

URL	TomsHardware.com
Type of site	High-Tech Online Magazine
Owner	Bestofmedia Group
Launched	1996
Alexa rank	1,134 (June 2012[update])[1]
Current status	online

Tom’s Hardware is an online publication focused on technology that was founded in 1996 by a German dentist^[2] Dr. Thomas Pabst. Tom's Hardware is owned by Bestofmedia Group company, one of the top three online publishers for technology in the world.^[3]

Tom's Hardware provides articles, news, price comparisons, videos and reviews on computer hardware and high technology. The site features coverage on CPUs, motherboards, RAM, graphics and displays, storage, and computer peripherals. Tom's Hardware has a forum and featured blogs. A unique aspect of Tom's Hardware is the "Build your Own" section where readers can learn how to build their own computers. Tom's Hardware readers are tech enthusiasts, high-tech buyers, consumers, information technology decision makers, purchasing influencers, and industry analysts. It is published in several languages.

History[link]

• April 1996 – Website founded by Dr. Thomas Pabst^[4]
• September 1996 – Pair alliance; cooperation with the ISP Pair, USA.
• October 1996 – First advertising customers.
• January 1997 – Reaches more than one million page impressions per month.
• March 1997 – The New York Times reports that Intel withdraws its unsuccessful attempt to influence Tom's Hardware and other media publications. Several Intel executives violated their own company's policy by threatening to withdraw advertising due to unflattering and unauthorized media product reviews.^[5]
• June 1997 – American Megatrends book the site for $10,000 per month.
• September 1997 – IBM becomes advertising partner for the company.
• November 1997 – Own chat forum.^[6]
• February 1998 – Start of the company’s international sites.
• August 1998 – The company publishes a hardware book in cooperation with Macmillan (print run: 30,000).^[7]
• August 1998 – Reaches more than 10 million page impressions per month.
• March 1999 – Establishes testing lab in Pleasanton, California, U.S.
• March 1999 – Reaches more than 10 million page impressions per month and has more than 1 million unique readers.
• August 1999 – Tom's Hardware releases major article about AMD's new Athlon processor.^[8]
• October 1999 – Set up of Toms Guides Publishing AG in Germany .^[9]
• October 1999 – Establishes a testing site in Munich.^[10]
• April 2000 – Start of Polish site.^[11]
• June 2000 – Reaches more than 20 million page impressions per month.
• August 2000 – Reaches more than 120,000 unique readers per day at tomshardware.com.
• September 2000 – Tom’s Hardware publishes product reviews of Intel's 1.13 GHz processor. Intel withdraws the 1.13 GHz processor from the market.^{[12][13][14][15][16]}
• September 2000 – Set up of "compubizz" – a B2B portal for computer hardware, in joint venture with Newtron AG, a provider of B2B software, and BMP, a German venture capitalist.
• October 2000 – Start of the Chinese sites in two dialects.^[17][18]
• March 2003 – Russian site goes live.^[19]
• June 2003 – Italian site goes live.^[20]
• August 2006 – Tenth anniversary.^[21]
• November 2006 – TG Publishing LLC launches Merchant Hound for online price comparisons.^[22]
• September 2006 – Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini, refers to Tom's Hardware as his favorite tech website and quotes the site at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF).^[23]
• February 2007 – TG Publishing LLC LAUNCHES Gear Digest, the online resource for consumer electronics and technology Products.^[24]
• April 2007 – TG Publishing LLC and Bestofmedia Group merger moves the company to the top 3 ranked sites for online technology publications ^[3]
• June 2007 – Partnership with John Wiley & Sons to deliver the Universal Command Guide for Operating Systems online.^[25]
• June 2007 – Antoine Boulin appointed CEO of TG Publishing LLC, a Bestofmedia Group company.^[26]
• September 2007 – Company rebrands TwitchGuru to Tom's Games and Gear Digest to Tom's Guide.^[27]
• October 2007 – TG Publishing LLC changes name to Bestofmedia LLC, part of Bestofmedia Group.^[28]
• February 2008 Presence-PC become the French version of Tom's Hardware^[29]
• March 2008 – Bestofmedia Group achieves 150% growth in Website traffic.^[30]
• April 2008 – Bestofmedia Group launch Uberscore.com^[31]
• July 2008 – Bestofmedia Group attracts $35 million from Index Ventures^[32]
• December 2008 – Bestofmedia Group launch Tom's Games^[33]
• July 2010 – Afterdawn launch Tom's Hardware in Finland^[34]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tom's Hardware Homepage
• Tom's Hardware Finnish Homepage
• Tom's Hardware French Homepage
• Tom's Hardware Chinese Homepage
• Tom's Hardware Turkish Homepage
• Bestofmedia Group

TOM'S Co., Ltd (株式会社トムス, Kabushiki-gaisha Tomusu^?) is a factory supported racing team and tuner of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The name stands for Tachi Oiwa Motor Sport. Their head office is located in Tokyo, Japan. They are currently heavily involved with Super GT racing and Formula 3 racing.^[1][2] TOM'S creates aftermarket parts for current Toyota vehicles, and have also created their own special edition of certain current Lexus models.^[3][4]

History[link]

TOM'S stands for Tachi Oiwa Motor Sports. As cited in the TOM'S English website, TOM'S was established in 1974 by Nobuhide Tachi and Kiyoshi Oiwa. Despite an oil crisis at the time, the two were able to show productive results and a healthy development of motorsports for Toyota.^[5] With the support of Toyota, TOM'S went into business in 1974.^[5]

In 1975 the Toyota Motor Corporation officially recognized TOM'S as an authorized tuning shop.^[5] In 1978, the firm opened a garage in the Tama area of Tokyo.^[5] The tuning firm expanded to Norfolk, England with branch openings in 1987.^[5]

In 1993, TOM'S produced vehicles for the Japanese Formula 3000.^[5] In 1994, the firm marked its 20th anniversary with "TOM'S Angel T01", a commemorative model.^[5] 1995 saw the lightweight sports car series T101, T082, and T020.^[5] In 2003, TOM'S modified vehicles entered the All Japan F3 Championship group of the All Japan GT Championship.^[5]

List of TOM'S Complete Cars[link]

TOM'S Supra

TOM'S SC 430

TOM'S Supra 340kmh speedometer

• F070M Celsior (Lexus LS 400/430)
• F070 Celsior (Lexus LS 400/430)
• Z382 Soarer (Lexus SC)
• S741 Majesta (0-60, 4.6)
• S630 Aristo (Lexus GS300, GS400)
• S740 Athlete
• S970 Athlete
• S972 Estate
• X540 Chaser
• E910 Altezza (Lexus IS300)
• Toyota Altezza (Lexus IS200)
• Land Cruiser
• V10 Mark-X 0-60, 3.8
• RX330/Harrier
• Prius
• H125 Alphard
• Isis
• W123 (MR-S)
• T020 (MR-2) 0-60, 4.9
• T111 (Corolla AE111 Trueno)
• T101
• T091
• T082
• P050 Vits 0-60, 5.8
• EP82 Starlet GT Turbo 0-60, 4.0

Also the aero work done to the number 36 Castrol TOM'S SUPRA (1997 GTC 500 Champion with Michael Krumm and Pedro de la Rosa).^[6]

References[link]

1. ^ "TOM'S SC430 (Wakisaka-Lotterer) Clinch Season Opener". SuperGT.net. 2006-03-19. http://supergt.net/supergt/2006/06r01/0601race_en.shtm. Retrieved 2007-05-06. 
2. ^ "From Japanese F3 we have the Tom's Team, who should never be underestimated". Motorsport.com. http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=314059. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 
3. ^ "SC50, the Lexus Coupe by TOM'S". Nihon Car.com. http://www.nihoncar.com/en/news-479-SC50,+the+Lexus+Coupe+by+TOM%27S.html. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 
4. ^ "Tom's套裝避震器 < 汽車知識庫 < 汽車新聞". www.carnews.com. http://www.carnews.com/detail/15033. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} "TOM'S——TOYOTA御用改装品牌--汽车频道-中华网". auto.china.com. http://auto.china.com/zh_cn/fever/pp/11066756/20080307/14713992.html. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 
6. ^ "1997 Toyota Tom's Supra GT500 - Images, Specifications and Information". www.ultimatecarpage.com. http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3272/Toyota-Tom-s-Supra-GT500.html. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 

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• TOM'S USA website

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