Digital Trends
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| URL | Website of Digital Trends |
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| Slogan | upgrade your lifestyle |
| Commercial? | yes |
| Type of site | Technology news and information |
| Registration | optional |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Ian Bell, Digital Trends |
| Created by | Ian Bell, Dan Gaul |
| Alexa rank |  5,243 (March 2012[update])[1] |
| Current status | online |
DigitalTrends.com is a high-tech lifestyle, technology news and information website created by Ian Bell and Dan Gaul in June 2001. It publishes news, reviews, guides, how-to articles, descriptive videos and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics products. The spectrum of categories on which the site offers information includes a wide array of consumer electronics products like mobile phones and cell phones, video games and systems, laptops, PCs and peripherals, televisions, MP3 players, iPods, music players, digital cameras, video cameras, GPS navigation devices and so on. It also covers home connectivity, digital entertainment, and VoIP among other service areas.
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[edit] History
Digital Trends was founded by Ian Bell and Dan Gaul in June 2001 in Lake Oswego, Oregon under the name Designtechnica Corporation. The company was rechristened as Digital Trends in April 2006.[2]
In May 2009, Digital Trends moved its headquarters from Lake Oswego, OR into the US Bancorp Tower in Downtown Portland, Oregon.[3] The company was founded and still is a privately funded and owned corporation. According to rankings published by ComScore Media Metrix and Nielson NetRatings, Digital Trends is featured amongst the top 10 Consumer Electronics review sites.[citation needed]
[edit] Content
Digital Trends adopts the AP and Yahoo Style Guides for writing.
The website registers more than 3 million unique visitors and about 10 million page views each month, and reaches over 40 million readers through syndication.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ "Digitaltrends.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digitaltrends.com. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
- ^ Rossmüller, Nic (May 24, 2006). "Design Technica becomes Digital Trends". LetsGoDigital. http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_8145.html.
- ^ Movin’ on up: Digital Trends takes up residence in Big Pink
