CNET acquires Esther Dyson's EDventure Holdings, including her RELease 1.0 newsletter.

Newsletter on Newsletters, The, April, 2004

RELease 1.0, a highly regarded "insider-style" newsletter for the electronics industry, has long been associated with its noted editor, Esther Dyson. But it began life in the late 1970s as Morgan Stanley Electronics Letter edited by Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin M. Rosen (who is considered one of the "fathers" of the PC industry for funding Lotus and Compaq on their way up the tech ladder).

In the early 1980s, Ben Rosen left Morgan Stanley and hung out his own venture-capital shingle, taking his newsletter with him and renaming it RELease 1.0--"REL" standing for "Rosen Electronics Letter."

As Rosen became busier and busier with his venture capital business, he hired a young man now known to many in the newsletter industry, George Gilder. After a...

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