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| name           = Engadget
| logo           = [[File:EngadgetLogo.png|200px]]
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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>


===William Shatner & Twitter Verification===
On 21 June 2014, actor [[William Shatner]] raised issue with several of Engadget's 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. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/william-shatner-went-on-a-massive-rant-about-how-hes-sick-of/|title=William Shatner Went On A Massive Rant About How He’s Sick Of “Nobodies” Getting Verified On Twitter|work=BuzzFeed|author=Alan White|date=23 June 2014}}</ref> Besides Colucci, Shatner also targeted several junior members of the staff for being "nobodies" unlike some of his actor colleagues who didn't have such distinction. Shatner claimed Colucci and team were bullying him when giving a text interview to Mashable<ref>{{cite web|last=Ulanoff |first=Lance |url=http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/william-shatner-twitter-verified/ |title=William Shatner: My Problem With Twitter's Verified Accounts |work=Engadget |date=24 June 2014}}</ref>. Over a month later, Shatner continued to discuss the issue on his Tumblr page<ref>{{cite web|last=Shatner |first=William |url=http://williamshatner.tumblr.com/post/93274499035/abusing-verification-segueing-with-shatner |title=Abusing Verification - Segueing with Shatner |work=Engadget |date=29 July 2014}}</ref>, to which Engadget replied with its own response, defending its team and discussing the controversy around social media verification.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lee |first=Nicole |url=http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/31/the-perks-of-being-somebody-online/ |title=The perks of being 'somebody' online |work=Engadget |date=31 July 2014}}</ref>⏎
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===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(contracted; show full){{AOL Inc.}}

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