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Engadget shutting down Germany and Spain sister sites

by victorvation on 4/30/18, 7:25 PM with 9 comments

• by kodablah on 4/30/18, 9:02 PM

  > I won't dwell on what brought us here.

  No need to dwell, how about just a mention? I think most of us can speculate, but I'd rather not.

• by danso on 4/30/18, 8:06 PM

  When I hear the phrase "Engadget's German- and Spanish-language sites will cease publication", I think of those sites as being translations of the English site, but looks like they had their own writers (or in the case of the German site, writer) and topics.

  - http://de.engadget.com/

  - http://es.engadget.com/

  Was surprised that there was a German site, one that ostensibly has more of a focus on EU/Germany tech stories. But did the Spanish site cater to Spain (seems like a pretty small market), or to a Spanish-speaking audience at large?

• by inetsee on 4/30/18, 8:14 PM

  Am I correct in assuming that this action is being taken because GDPR goes into effect on May 1, 2018?