Light Reading Announces New Video, Research & Content Features on Its Award-Winning Web Site

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) announced today it has refreshed its Web site design to include larger video players and easier access to information from its two research properties, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research.

Light Reading's most improved site sections include:

• Light Reading Jobs, a site for finding and posting employment opportunities. The job notices are searchable by industry, job type, location and experience level (http://jobs.lightreading.com)
• LRTV, Light Reading's improved video landing page provides access to documentaries, interviews, blogs and custom programming organized by "most recent" and "most popular" as well as technology topic (http://www.lightreading.com/tv)
• Light Reading's event coverage always stands out and its analysis of the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona will be no different. The Light Reading Mobile World Congress show site is live and features interviews with Heavy Reading and Pyramid analysts, as well as executives from the GSMA on what to expect at the show (http://www.lightreading.com/mobile-world-congress)
• Blogs and research by Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research will now be featured front and center in the middle column on the site, giving greater exposure to the opinions and analysis of communications technology as well as unique telecom market analysis in more than 100 countries around the world.

"Lightreading.com has always provided its worldwide audience with in-depth and irreverent analysis of the industry, as evident with its selection as one of B2B Magazine's 10 Great Media Sites last year," says Joe Braue, Executive Vice President, Light Reading Communications Network.  "We've always been a leader in video, we are the only research-led media site in the industry, and this site refresh plays up our strengths. We know our audience and advertisers will benefit from it."  

About Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com)

Founded in 2000, the Light Reading Communications Network is the world's leading research-led integrated media company serving the global communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technological and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About UBM TechWeb (www.ubmtechweb.com)

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

About United Business Media Limited (www.ubm.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities – from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists – with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com/

SOURCE Light Reading Communications Network