In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.

Editor's Letter BlackBerry takes over

It’s been a very, very good week for Engadget. On Wednesday, Aol announced it had purchased gdgt and, while we generally don’t pay much heed to the acquisitional whims of our parent company, this one we’re very, very excited about — and you should be too. Gdgt is the creation of Engadget founder Peter Rojas and former editor-in-chief (and current editor emeritus) Ryan Block. They founded gdgt as a product-focused site in 2008 and, over the ensuing years, transformed it into a comprehensive database of the world’s gadgetry, all that backed by an active community of people brought together by an innate love for the hottest in tech.

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