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Mashable is a UK-based technology blog that started in 2005 by a 19-year-old, Peter Cashmore, from Aberdeen, Scotland.
Fame came relatively quickly, with Time magazine noting Mashable as one of the 25 best blogs of 2009.
He was quickly nicknamed, “the Planet’s sexiest geek” and “the internet Playboy,” by some of the lesser-known publications and social blogs. It also begs the question, “What would other publications such as ‘The Huffington Post‘ be like today if they had not sold out to AOL in 2009?” Anna Huffington felt it was the right thing to do.
AOL tried to add Mashable to its collection of media publications, after purchasing a rival website, Huffington Post in 2011, as well as TechCrunch, a site dedicated to news exclusively on technology topics.
In 2012, Mashable was considered one of the hottest internet real estate properties to own, and it even got the attention of Time Warner’s CNN when they threatened a hostile takeover.
As of November 2015, it had over 6,000,000 Twitter followers and over 3,200,000 fans on Facebook.
In June 2016, it acquired YouTube channel CineFix from Whalerock Industries.
In December 2017, Ziff Davis bought Mashable for $50 million, a price described by Recode as a "fire sale" price.
In June 2021, Jessica Coen, Mashable's editor-in-chief, left the company to join Morning Brew.
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