IDT Corporation (originally standing for International Discount Telecommunications ) is a multinational provider of cloud communications , point of sale systems, unified communications , and financial services foreign exchange services for selected clients. It has units dedicated for businesses and consumers such as the Boss Revolution pre-paid phone cards, headquartered in Newark, New Jersey .
40-530: IDW may refer to: IDW Publishing , a U.S. comic book publisher Informationsdienst Wissenschaft , a German science news service Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland , a German non-profit organization serving public auditors Intellectual dark web , a loosely-defined philosophical neologism coined by Eric Weinstein Inverse distance weighting ,
80-471: A 53% majority interest in IDW from the company's founders, removing Garner & Oprisko, while reducing Adams & Robbins to minority owners collectively at 47%. Then, in 2009, IDT proceeded to increase its interest to the current 76%, reducing Adams & Robbins's interest once again to the current 24%. Then, shortly afterwards, IDT created CTM Media Holdings via a tax-free spin-off. This new company consisted of
120-635: A Miami-based messaging and live chat technology startup. LiveNinja's messaging technology is being integrated into its new product now in development. Leveraging LiveNinja's technology, net2phone will offer a multi-channel platform for small and medium-sized enterprises that spans phone, messaging, SMS and web chat. On 24 January 2018, IDT began a pilot test on using Ripple 's native cryptocurrency . The aim to simplify cross border payments, in order to free up billions held in foreign Vostro accounts. In March 2018, IDT completed its spinoff of Rafael Holdings with IDT founder Howard Jonas serving as chairman of
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200-415: A new imprint named Syzygy Publishing, but he is still editor of future Locke & Key projects. Jerry Bennington was promoted to President, Nachie Marsham was promoted to Publisher, and Rebekah Cahalin was promoted to General Manager and Executive Vice President of Operations covering IDW Publishing, and Veronica Brooks was promoted to Vice President of Creative Affairs. Around 2021, IDW announced that
240-820: A new independent publisher founded by Ted Adams (cofounder and former CEO of IDW) and Robbie Robbins (cofounder, executive vice president, and art director at IDW). In July 2019, it was announced that IDW Publishing had acquired the classic Sunday strip publisher Sunday Press Books . Between April and May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic , IDW was forced to furlough and then lay off several employees, including Managing Editor Denton Tipton, Associate Publisher David Hedgecock, Senior Graphic Artist Gilberto Lazcano, Senior Graphic Designer Christa Miesner, and Brand & Marketing Manager Spencer Reeve. In July 2020, Chris Ryall announced that he would step down from his position of President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer to launch
280-470: A proprietary cloud based storage and computing platform, to Ericsson . In February 2015 the company announced it had reached an agreement with Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. ( ETECSA ), Cuba's national telecom provider, for international long distance telephony between the United States and Cuba directly. In January 2017, Net2Phone , subsidiary of IDT Corporation, acquired LiveNinja,
320-517: A public company via an initial public offering . IDT operated a wireless MVNO , TúYo Mobile on the T-Mobile network. It was terminated on May 1, 2012. On July 31, 2013, IDT spun off Straight Path, a communications asset company holding 39 GHz (millimeter wave) nationwide spectrum and on average, 800 MHz of bandwidth in top 30 US markets. In October 2014, IDT sold Fabrix Systems, an Israel-based software company that developed and licenses
360-615: A series of monthly one-shot , self-contained stories. July 2009 saw the beginning of Doctor Who , an ongoing series featuring the Tenth Doctor , written by Tony Lee and illustrated by a rotating art team. IDW Publishing acquired the G.I. Joe comics license in May 2008 (previously held by Devil's Due Publishing ) and released three new series under editor Andy Schmidt , from writers such as Chuck Dixon , Larry Hama , and Christos Gage . Other comics were released in time to tie-in with
400-537: A seven-figure bidding war between DreamWorks , MGM , and Senator International , with Senator winning and Sam Raimi attached to produce. IDW Publishing's second title, Popbot , won two Gold Spectrum Awards . IDW Publishing also publishes comics based on the TV franchises Star Trek and CSI . The company's other licensed comics include Topps ' Mars Attacks , Sony 's Underworld , FX 's The Shield , Fox 's 24 and Angel ; Universal ’s Land of
440-558: Is also forthcoming. In 2004, 2005, and 2006 IDW Publishing was named Publisher of the Year by Diamond Comic Distributors . In 2010, IDW Publishing released the sequel to Michael San Giacomo's "Phantom Jack" Image Comics series with "Phantom Jack: The Nowhere Man Agenda." The graphic novel is notable because it features the death of the main character, a reporter who can turn invisible. IDW Publishing formed an imprint with EA Games in late 2009, called EA Comics, to focus on adaptations of
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#1732780901689480-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages IDW Publishing IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books , graphic novels , art books , and comic strip collections. It was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC ( IDW) and is recognized as the fifth-largest comic book publisher in
520-437: Is the provider of touch-screen point-of-sale (POS) systems, which offers a customer-facing screen as well as payment and transaction processing services . In 2009, IDT introduced Boss Revolution, a PIN-less international prepaid calling service. Boss Revolution PIN-less allows smartphone users to make single touch international calls. Since its introduction, Boss Revolution and other PIN-less providers have largely supplanted
560-768: The Doctor Who series from the BBC, launching two concurrent titles: Doctor Who Classics , which reprints colorized comic strips featuring the past Doctors such as the Fourth Doctor and Fifth Doctor originally published in the late 1970s-early 1980s by Doctor Who Magazine , and Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur , an original six-part limited series featuring the Tenth Doctor and overseen and written by TV series script editor Gary Russell . An additional six-part limited series titled Doctor Who: The Forgotten started in mid-2008 by Tony Lee and Pia Guerra , as well as
600-492: The COVID-19 pandemic, IDT Corporation applied for and received a loan of US$ 10 million as part of the Paycheck Protection Program . On April 26, 2020, due to criticism of large companies who were accessing the loan program intended to help small businesses, IDT announced that they would return the loan. In 2015, IDT launched National Retail Solutions (NRS). NRS is a point-of-sale company that
640-579: The Hasbro Reconstruction initiative to present a shared universe of Hasbro brands, which was later known as the Hasbro Comic Book Universe . The first event was Revolution , followed by First Strike on 2017. In April 2017, IDW Publishing acquired a license from Lucasfilm to produce a range of all-ages Star Wars comics. In July 2017, Sega announced a partnership with IDW to publish comics based on Sonic
680-667: The New York Stock Exchange ; the company also restructured its C-suite and experienced an almost 50% drop in its share price. On October 16, 2024, IDW announced a rebranding with a new logo. IDW has several imprints that they have developed or acquired: Konami acquired the video game rights, and minority ownership, in IDW Publishing's CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations . A 2007 film adaptation based on Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith 's 30 Days of Night starred Josh Hartnett and Melissa George ,
720-584: The United States , behind Marvel , DC , Dark Horse , and Image Comics , ahead of other comic book publishers such as Archie , Boom! , Dynamite , Valiant , and Oni Press . The company is known for its licensed comic book adaptations of films, television shows, video games, and cartoons. Idea and Design Works (IDW) was formed in 1999 by a group of comic book managers and artists (Ted Adams, Robbie Robbins, Alex Garner, and Kris Oprisko ) that first met while working at Wildstorm Productions . Each of
760-434: The summer 2009 G.I. Joe film . In March 2009, IDW Publishing forged an agreement with Mike Gold's Comicmix.com to publish print versions of Comicmix's online comic books. The agreement stipulates Comicmix must provide two comic books a month to IDW Publishing to publish, as well as graphic novels and trade paperbacks as demanded by the market. The books are published with both the IDW Publishing and Comicmix.com logos on
800-568: The D&;D 5th Edition core setting . A sixth five-issue mini-series, Infernal Tide , is set to be published in November 2019. In April 2011, IDW Publishing acquired the license to publish new collections of older Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics , as well as a new ongoing series beginning in August of that year. In August 2017 issue #73 of the main ongoing series was published, making it
840-470: The Dead and Shaun of the Dead ; and Konami ’s Silent Hill , Castlevania , Metal Gear Solid , and Speed Racer . The company has also had success with comic license from toy company Hasbro brands: The Transformers (with Takara ), G.I. Joe , My Little Pony , and Jem . Transformers has had as many as five different titles running concurrently. Beginning in 2008, the company licensed
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#1732780901689880-607: The Hedgehog beginning in 2018, following the conclusion/cancellation of the previous series by Archie Comics . IDW has also launched new imprint called Black Crown, handling creator-owned comics. In April 2018, publishers IDW Publishing and Oni Press announced a crossover between the Rick and Morty comic book and Dungeons & Dragons co-written by Jim Zub and Patrick Rothfuss with art by Troy Little . The four issue mini-series, Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons ,
920-596: The board and chief executive officer Rafael Holdings holds commercial real estate assets and interests in two clinical stage, oncology focused pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical holdings consist of interests in Rafael Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a majority stake in Lipomedix Pharmaceuticals Ltd., both of which are focused on development and commercialisation of drugs in the oncology space. On April 20, 2020, during
960-519: The comic book license for Disney properties would pass to Marvel Comics , while the license for Lucasfilm's Star Wars passed back to Dark Horse Comics . In September 2021, IDW announced that its partnership with Diamond Comic Distributors would switch to Penguin Random House . In December 2021, The Library of American Comics announced that they would be moving to Clover Press. That same month, John Barber announced that he would step away from
1000-454: The company has published its first crossover series Infestation . In March 2012 IDW Publishing announced it would release new comics based on Judge Dredd and The Crow . Also in 2012, Hasbro licensed the use of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for an IDW comic book series . The company also published Infestation 2 . In February 2013, IDW Publishing announced a partnership with Cartoon Network to publish comics based on
1040-556: The covers. As of the end of 2009, the agreement has produced print versions of the Grimjack series The Manx Cat ; the Jon Sable series Ashes of Eden ; Mark Wheatley and Robert Tinnell 's pulp hero series Lone Justice ; the graphic novel Demons of Sherwood by Tinnell and Bo Hampton ; and a graphic novel collecting Trevor Von Eeden 's The Original Johnson . A collection of Munden's Bar stories original to Comicmix's website
1080-408: The distribution of the series internationally. The series debuted on Netflix on January 23, 2020, and was canceled after one season. Netflix announced a television adaptation of the comic series created by William Laurin and Glenn Davis, on April 16, 2018, with 10 episodes produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment, who would also be involved in the distribution of
1120-518: The four was equal partners, owning 25%. When Jim Lee sold Wildstorm to DC Comics in 1999, Lee turned that company's creative service department, previously run by Adams, over to IDW, allowing IDW to be profitable in its first year. With these profits, the firm decided to fund a new venture every year. In 2000, IDW developed a TV show concept, getting as far as a pilot episode. For the 2001's project, Adams's Ashley Wood talked to them about publishing an art book, thus starting up IDW Publishing. Una Fanta
1160-655: The latter's video games, with initial titles including Army of Two and Dragon Age . In January 2011, IDW Publishing announced a new Dungeons & Dragons comic series , under license from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast . Set in the D&;D 4th Edition core setting , the new ongoing series Dungeons & Dragons (Fell's Five) ran for 16 issues. Several mini-series were also published including The Legend of Drizzt: Neverwinter Tales written by R.A. Salvatore . Since 2014, five five-issue mini-series have been published in
1200-569: The longest running comic series in the franchise's history. September 6, 2011, for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 , IDW Publishing teamed up Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment and released the graphic novel Code Word: Geronimo , written by retired Marine Corps Captain Dale Dye and Julia Dye, drawn by Gerry Kissell with inker Amin Amat. Code Word: Geronimo reached #22 on Diamond Comics top 100 list its first month after release. During that same year,
1240-403: The majority interest in IDW and CTM Media Group. Eight years later, on April 3, 2015, CTM Media Holdings announced it would continue operations under a new name, becoming IDW Media Holdings, which would continue to consist of the majority interest in IDW and CTM Media Group. The company's first traditional comic series, 30 Days of Night , created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith started
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1280-524: The movie) is included in the Transformers DVD. Syfy announced a television adaptation to be developed by Emily Andras of Beau Smith 's Wynonna Earp , which premiered on April 1, 2016, and ended on April 9, 2021. Netflix announced a television adaptation on September 28, 2018 of the comic series created by Steve Niles to be produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment, who would also be involved in
1320-425: The network's television series and reprint older Cartoon Network comics. On January 6, 2015, IDW Publishing announced it had acquired Top Shelf Productions . In February 2015, it was announced that IDW Publishing made a deal with Disney to continue the publication of the following comic books: Uncle Scrooge , Donald Duck , Mickey Mouse , and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories . In 2016, IDW launched
1360-524: The other way." IDT was founded by entrepreneur Howard Jonas in August 1990. He founded the company after opening a sales office in Israel, receiving large international phone bills and then discovering a way to lower them by re-originating calls in the United States. In 1996, IDT founded Net2Phone , the world's fourth-largest VoIP provider (2017), and sold 32% of Net2Phone in August 2000 to AT&T for $ 1.1 billion in cash. That same year, IDT became
1400-404: The role of Editor-in-Chief. In January 2022, IDW announced that they would lose the comic book licenses for Hasbro's Transformers and G.I. Joe by the end of the year, but would continue publishing other Hasbro licenses, including My Little Pony and Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons . On April 27, 2023, IDW cut 39% of their staff and became privately-held by delisting from
1440-435: The series internationally. The series debuted on Netflix on December 5, 2019, and was canceled after one season. Netflix announced a television adaptation of the comic series created by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez , which premiered on February 7, 2020. IDT Corp. IDT's first service was callback , which was based on the idea that "it costs two and three times as much to call from overseas as it does
1480-523: The traditional prepaid international calling card industry. IDT subsequently announced initiatives to add various payment services to the Boss Revolution Platform, including international money transfer. IDT inaugurated a service of low cost international calling called PennyTalk. "IDT first offered dial-up services in 1994." They subsequently expanded to offer dedicated Internet access lines. By 1999 this ISP also became "one of
1520-531: Was directed by David Slade , produced by 2002 Spider-Man director Sam Raimi and distributed by Columbia Pictures . Dimension Films has an option on two Steve Niles/IDW Publishing properties: Wake the Dead , with X2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty attached to write, and Hyde , with Mike Fleiss ( The Bachelor , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ) attached to produce. The motion comic version of Transformers: Movie Prequel titled Transformers: Beginnings (albeit excluding characters not present in
1560-487: Was first published in August 2018. In May 2019, a sequel mini-series was announced: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Chapter II: Painscape. It will be written by Jim Zub and Sarah Stern with art by Troy Little. In 2019, the company went under financial difficulties and got help from JPMorgan Chase evaluating strategies to be profitable. In May 2019, IDW offered itself as an investor in Clover Press ,
1600-534: Was published in March 2002. Woods had Steve Niles send Adams some of his rejected screenplays. Adams selected one, 30 Days of Night , and paired him with artist Ben Templesmith for a comic adaptation as a three-issue series, beginning in August 2002. With low pre-orders, Adams personally pushed the comic with the distributor and major comic book stores. Soon the title's back issues were hot and were followed up with Wood's Popbot . In 2007, IDT Corporation purchased
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