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Acquired byAOL
Date2/13

General Information

Websitegdgt.com
Bloggdgt.com
Twitter@gdgt
CategoryConsumer Electronics/Devices
Emailcontact@gdgt.com
Employees17
Founded7/09
DescriptionConsumer electronics

Offices

San Francisco, USA
901 Mission St.
Suite 209
San Francisco, CA, 94103
USA

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gdgt

gdgt (parent company: PastFuture) is a consumer electronics site by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block. Rojas was the founding editor of Engadget and Gizmodo and Block was editor-in-chief of Engadget.

Recent Milestones

  • Handshake
    gdgt was acquired by AOL. (2/13/13)
    Posted 2/13/13 at 8:21pm via venturebeat.com
  • Dollar
    gdgt received $3.17M in Series A funding. (4/7/10)
    Posted 4/7/10 at 6:03am via wsj.com
  • Check
    gdgt added Mo Koyfman as Board of Directors. (4/1/10)
    Posted 12/23/11 at 11:03am
  • Dollar
    gdgt received $550k in Seed funding. (7/1/09)
    Posted 7/1/09 at 9:09am
  • Check
    gdgt added Ryan Block as Founder.
    Posted 5/20/09 at 4:30pm
  • Check
    gdgt added Peter Rojas as Founder.
    Posted 5/20/09 at 4:30pm

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gdgt screenshot
Above: Homepage at Launch (July 1, 2009)
Uploaded: 7/2/09
gdgt screenshot
Above: gdgt Screenshot -- #2
Uploaded: 12/24/11

Sources

  1. AOL buys GDGT to beef up engineering and design — gives you a chance to delete your account (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. Citation Needed [add]
  3. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
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