CyberMedia, South Asia's first and largest specialty media house with a strong presence in media services has announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of TDA Group, Inc., a California-based integrated marketing communications and custom publishing company, in a strategic move to expand the services business of the Company..

TDA Group Inc., with a strong track record of over 20 years, provides a wide range of value-added services to an A-list of high-tech clients including several of the global leaders in the IT industry. Services provided by TDA include marketing consulting, content development, web and graphic design. TDA Group’s products encompass both print and online offerings and include magazines, newsletters, collateral, identity, customer reference programs, white papers, direct mail and websites. 

The TDA Group posted revenues exceeding $ 5 million in the year ending December 2007 with strong year over year growth at both the top and bottom lines and strong prospects in the current year. 

The new subsidiary, TDA Group LLC will move forward retaining and utilizing the skills and services of TDA’s highly talented staff, including ongoing participation in the business of founders Bob Tabke and Debbie Dawson to ensure continuity and maintain TDA’s client service excellence. 

Commenting on the purchase, Pradeep Gupta, Chairman of CyberMedia said, “We are very pleased to bring TDA Group into the CyberMedia business portfolio. It is a strategic move in growing our content based services business rapidly. TDA is an outstanding business with excellent clients and people. TDA fits very well with our domain expertise in technology, and expands the proven core competence of CyberMedia in content-related areas.”

This is CyberMedia’s second acquisition in the US in the last 16 months. CyberMedia had acquired Illinois-based Publication Services, Inc. in December 2006. CyberMedia has already articulated its strategy to strengthen the media services business through both organic and inorganic means. 

About CyberMedia
CyberMedia, now in its 25th year, is South Asia's first and largest specialty media house, with fifteen publications (including Dataquest, PCQuest, Voice&Data, BioSpectrum, Living Digital, Global Services and DARE) in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics, biotech and entrepreneurship areas, and is a media value chain including Internet (www.ciol.com), events and television. The group's media services include market research (IDC India), job board (CyberMedia tech jobs portal), content management, multimedia, and media education. 

CyberMedia also publishes BioSpectrum Asia from Singapore and Global Services from the U.S.A., the first Indian magazine titles to be published from outside the country for a global audience. 

CyberMedia is listed on the NSE and BSE.

For more information, please contact:
At CyberMedia 
Manhar Kapoor
Company Secretary
CyberMedia
Cyber House, B-35, Sec 32, 
Gurgaon 122001 India
+91 98106 04790
manhark@cybermedia.co.in 

Or

At Strategic Communications and PR
Sanjiv Kataria
+ 91 98100 48095 mob
+ 91 98100 48091 sms
sanjiv.kataria@gmail.com  

Or 

www.cybermedia.co.in