LONDON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- America's Leading Gadget Blog Comes to Poland

America's leading gadget and technology site Engadget, ( http://engadget.com ), has today launched in Poland at http://pl.engadget.com as part of AOL's global expansion. The Poland launch signals the next phase of increasing the brand's global presence, with plans to launch into other European countries in the future.

Engadget Poland joins http://www.aol.pl and http://www.winamp.pl as AOL continues to grow it's Polish language offering, which currently has over 1.9 million UVs in Poland.1 Engadget Poland will feature content and topics with local and international flavour and focus on subjects including product release rumours, product reviews and articles written by and for technology and gadget enthusiasts. A growing team of local editors will be responsible for creating engaging and up-to-date content for the Polish audience.

Engadget is a blog with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics. In the U.S., Engadget was named in the top 10 of Time.com's 2007 Top 25 Blogs Index2 and was the only tech blog to be ranked in the top 3 for both most popular and most credible by technology journalists in the 2008 Brodeur Media Survey.3 Engadget features hundreds of posts a week on the latest from the tech world and has over 1.8 million monthly users.4

"We are excited about launching Engadget in Poland, and continuing to take the AOL Technology Network to a global audience," said Marty Moe, Senior Vice President, AOL Money & Finance, Weblogs, KOL, News & Sports. "This new site reflects our ongoing commitment to create the most compelling destinations for consumers and advertisers on the Web, bringing robust content into an increasingly fragmented online community."

Ariel Eckstein, Vice President of Business Expansion, AOL Europe added, "Bringing Engadget to Poland is the next step in broadening our offering to Polish consumers by introducing leading AOL properties that complement AOL.pl and our Winamp offerings. We plan to follow up the Engadget launch with additional Polish language offerings."

The launch of Engadget Poland joins other non-English Engadget sites including, Engadget Japan, Engadget China and Engadget Spanish. Engadget was launched in March of 2004 in partnership with the Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN), with local versions available for Spain, Japan and China. AOL acquired Weblogs, Inc. in November 2005.

Visit the new Engadget site at: http://pl.engadget.com

1 Source: Gemius

2 Source: Time.com, March 2008

(http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725323_1725329_1...)

3 Brodeur Media Survey, May 2008 http://www.brodeurmediasurvey.com/

4 Source: comScore Media Metrix, April 2008

About AOL Europe

AOL is a leading global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services and provides a full set of advertising solutions. AOL also operates dedicated websites in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia.

In Poland AOL.pl ( http://www.aol.pl ) offers Polish users free email, instant messaging, leading photo and video storage services as well as local news and content; Winamp (http://www.winamp.pl ), a world leading advanced media player application with over 1.9 million users in Poland. As part of a global partnership with HP, AOL offers co-branded, localised versions of its portal, toolbar and search on HP desktop and notebook PCs sold in Poland: http://hp-consumer.my.aol.pl, http://hp-commercial.my.aol.pl, http://compaq-consumer.my.aol.pl

For more information please contact: Thomas Knorpp, AOL Press Office, Tel: +44-(0)20-7348-8726, Thomas.Knorpp@corp.aol.com