Jai Singh

Recognizing that business news in the 1990s often meant what's happening in the technology sector, Jai Singh became the founding editor of CNET News.com in 1996.

This real-time, round-the clock operation dedicated to covering technology is among the Internet's leading news services. In little more than four years, CNET News has gained content-sharing agreements with ABC News Online, Businessweek.com, and the New York Times Online among others.

Mr. Singh also was instrumental in a landmark syndication agreement between CNET News.com with the Associated Press, whereby CNET News.com in January 2000 became the first online news agency to provide content to the 100-year-old news organization.

Singh, vice president and editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has twice been voted "most influential online journalist" by Marketing Computers magazine, and CNET News.com has garnered numerous awards from authorities like the Computer Press Association, Editor & Publisher, and The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism/Online News Association.

The site has often been rated among the Web's top 10 news sites.

Before joining CNET, Mr. Singh, who was born in Agra, India, and came to this country at age 19, was executive editor of news at InfoWorld and previously worked at PC Week. In the mid-1980s, he headed a 20-hour-a-day news operation for one of the pioneering online services, The Source, owned by the Readers Digest Corporation.