Engaget

''Engadget'' ( ) is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics. ''Engadget'' manages ten blogs four of which are written in English and six have international versions with independent editorial staff. It has been operated by Yahoo since September 2021.

History

''Engadget'' was founded by former ''Gizmodo'' technology weblog editor and co-founder Peter Rojas. ''Engadget'' was the largest blog in Weblogs, Inc., a blog network with over 75 weblogs, including ''Autoblog'' and ''Joystiq,'' which formerly included ''Hackaday''. Weblogs Inc. was purchased by AOL in 2005.

Launched in March 2004, ''Engadget'' is updated multiple times a day with articles on gadgets and consumer electronics. It also posts rumors about the technological world, frequently offers opinion within its stories, and produces the weekly Engadget Podcast that covers tech and gadget news stories that happened during the week.

On December 30, 2009, ''Engadget'' released its first mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Overnight, on July 15, 2013, Tim Stevens stepped down as the editor-in-chief, placing ''gdgts Marc Perton as the interim executive editor. In November 2013, a major redesign was launched that merged ''gdgt''s' features into ''Engadget'', such as the database of devices and aggregated reviews. The changes aimed to turn ''Engadget'' into a more extensive consumer electronics resource, similarly to ''CNET'' and ''Consumer Reports'', aimed towards "the early adopter in all of us".

As of April 2014, Michael Gorman was the editor-in-chief, alongside Christopher Trout as executive editor.

On December 2, 2015, ''Engadget'' introduced another redesign, as well as a new editorial direction with a focus on broader topics influenced by technology; Gorman explained that "the core ''Engadget'' audience—people who are very much involved in the industry—pay attention to it closely, but the new editorial direction is really meant to make it approachable for folks outside of that realm."

Controversies

William Shatner and Twitter verification

On June 21, 2014, actor William Shatner raised an issue with several ''Engadget'' editorial staff and their "verification" status on Twitter. This began when the site's social media editor, John Colucci tweeted a celebration of the site hitting over 1 million Twitter followers. Besides Colucci, Shatner also targeted several junior members of the staff for being "nobodies", unlike some of his actor colleagues who did not bear such distinction. Shatner claimed Colucci and the team were bullying him when giving a text interview to Mashable. Over a month later, Shatner continued to discuss the issue on his Tumblr page, to which ''Engadget'' replied by defending its team and discussing the controversy surrounding the social media verification.

''The Verge''

In early 2011, eight of the most prominent editorials and technology staff members left AOL to build a new gadget site with the CEO Jim Bankoff at ''SB Nation''. On leaving, Joshua Topolsky, former editor-in-chief, is quoted having said, "We have been working on blogging, technology that was developed in 2003, we haven't made a hire since I started running the site, and I thought we could be more successful elsewhere".

See also

* List of The Engadget Show episodes

References

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