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Macworld is a monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Published since 1984, it has the largest audited circulation (both total and newsstand) of Macintosh-focused magazines in North America, more than double its nearest competitor, MacAddict. Macworld was founded by David Bunnell.

In 1997, the publication was renamed to Macworld, incorporating MacUser (a name reflected subtly on the magazine's Table of Contents page) to reflect the consolidation of the Ziff-Davis-owned MacUser magazine into the International Data Group-owned Macworld within the new Mac Publishing joint venture between the two publishers. In 1999, the combined company also purchased the online publication MacCentral Online, because Macworld didn't have a powerful online news component at the time. In late 2001 International Data Group (IDG) bought out Ziff-Davis' share of Mac Publishing, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary of IDG.

The magazine is published in many countries, either by other IDG subsidiaries or by outside publishers who have licensed the brand name and its content. These editions include Australia, Germany (Macwelt), Italy, Spain, Sweden (MacWorld), Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Its content is also incorporated into a number of other IDG publications.

The magazine's publisher licenses its name to another IDG subsidiary, IDG World Expo, for the Macworld Conference & Expo, which takes place annually in North America. Smaller attendance over the years has led to consolidation of the trade show, which once fully encompassed the North and South Halls at Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, in January, into the single larger South Hall. The summer show moved between Boston, Massachusetts, its long-time home, and New York City, New York (and back again), before finally being cancelled outright in 2005 due to dwindling vendor and visitor attendance.

The website for Macworld, Macworld.com, is updated daily with news, reviews, features, opinion, and commentary relevant to Apple products. The website also features an active Internet forum, with over 45,000 registered users.

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