Engadget is a trilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics. Engadget operates a total of ten blogs four written in English and six international types with independent editorial staff. Engadget has classify among the top five in the “Technorati top 100” and was noted in Time for being one of the best blogs of 2010. Yahoo has run it since September 2021.
History of Engadget
Engadget was founded by former Gizmodo technology weblog editor and co-founder Peter Rogas. 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 gdgt‘s Marc Perton as the interim executive editor. In November 2013, a major redesign was launched that merged gdgt‘s features into Engadget, such as 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 very closely, but the new editorial direction is really meant to try to make it approachable for folks outside of that realm.”
