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Tweakers (formerly called Tweakers.net) is a Dutch website featuring news and information about hardware, software and the Internet. The verb "tweaking" in the title refers to the process of tweaking the hardware of a computer, as a form of optimization. Tweakers has grown substantially since its conception. Nowadays, it publishes news, reviews, features and video reports about technology subjects, with a strong focus on the Netherlands. Tweakers has more features for the computer enthusiast, such as reviews, bi-monthly Best Buy guides, a classifieds section for jobs and used hardware, the Pricewatch and the Shop Survey, among others. While the majority of the reviews are written in Dutch, several articles covering non-standard topics are translated into English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reviews met tag english )〕 Tweakers currently has more than 500,000 members and its forum has over 29 million posts. It has won several awards, including "(Dutch) website of the year" in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. ==History== The website was founded in 1998 by Femme Taken, a computer enthusiast, under the name ''World of Tweaking'' as a student's hobby project to offer a Dutch alternative to hardware review sites like Tom's Hardware Guide. As of March 2006, Tweakers has been taken over by the Dutch media conglomerate VNU, now known as The Nielsen Company.〔 ()〕 However, VNU Media has become owner of the website after The Nielsen Company had sold its Business Media division to private equity firm 3i. In October 2012, Tweakers launched a new design, designed by Femme Taken, the founder. However, the new design met with criticism from their community. A couple of days later, Tweakers launched a new feature which enabled the community to change the appearance of the website. The current Responsive design was introduced on the 6th of January 2014. The Android and iOS apps where removed from their respective stores on the 7th of October 2014. In February 2014 Tweakers significantly improved the price comparison tool for sim only contracts. In June 2014 Tweakers added prices of Belgian webshops to the ''Pricewatch'', which now shows prices from Dutch and Belgian webshops. In April 2015 Tweakers launched a completely new logo to be uniformly used throughout the website. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tweakers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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