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| name           = Engadget
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| url            = [http://www.engadget.com/ engadget.com]
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(contracted; show full)|work=Engadget |date=10 July 2006}}</ref> The store has since changed its name (or possibly shutdown and a new store opened with a new name). In July 2007, another store had opened, also in Malaysia, with a logo bearing the same resemblance to Engadget's. <ref>{{cite web|last=Block |first=Ryan |url=http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/01/the-fake-engadget-store-returns-in-a-new-location/ |title=The (fake) Engadget store returns in a new location! |work=Engadget |date=1 July 2007}}</ref>


===The Verge===
In early 2011, eight of the more prominent editorial and technology staff members left [[AOL]] to build a new gadget site with CEO [[Jim Bankoff]] at [[SB Nation]].<ref>Carr, David. [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/business/media/04carr.html "No Longer Shackled by AOL"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. 3 April 2011</ref> 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”.

It appears the departure of the team from AOL which includes not only Topolsky but editors [[Nilay Patel]], [[Paul Miller (American journalist)|Paul Miller]], [[Joanna Stern]], [[Ross Miller]], Chris Ziegler, Chad Mumm, Justin Glow, Dan Chilton, Thomas Ricker and Vladislav Savov was primarily the cause of an internal memo distributed by AOL detailing "The AOL Way", a 58-page long company plan to grow [[AOL]] into a media empire. Some employees suggested that AOL was sacrificing journalism for page views and that it would be difficult for the organisation to apply a 'one size fits all' business model to reporting. The group set up a "placeholder site", ''[[This Is My Next]]'', while they developed a new technology news site in partnership with [[Vox Media]]. The new site, called ''[[The Verge (website)|The Verge]]'', was launched on 1 November 2011.

===T-Mobile "magenta" accusations===
On 31 March 2008, Engadget reported that [[Deutsche Telekom]] (the parent company of [[T-Mobile]] and [[T-Mobile USA]]) had sent a letter requesting that Engadget cease using the color magenta in its Engadget Mobile site, claiming that T-Mobile had trademarked the color.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/deutsche-telekom-t-mobile-demands-engadget-mobile-discontinue/|title=Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta|work=Engadget|author=Ryan Block|date=31 March 2008|accessdate=17 December 2008}}</ref> Engadget issued a response on 1 April, mainly by repainting the Engadget sites and changing the Mobile logo for the day to a logo that looks as though it is saying "Engadge t-mobile".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/painting-the-town-magenta/|title=Painting the town magenta|work=Engadget|author=Ryan Block|date=1 April 2008|accessdate=17 December 2008}}</ref> The site has since returned to normal format, with the exception of the highlighting color.⏎
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==References==
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==External links==
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