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Michael Arrington Launches New Blog

Michael Arrington Launches New Blog

Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and wearer of acerbic T-shirts, has resurfaced with a new blog, promising 'transparency' and 'truth.' Arrington was banished as co-editor of TechCrunch last month, after new owner AOL decided he had a conflict of ... continue
The Ultimate Snub: AOL Buys The Huffington Post and Doesn’t Tell TechCrunch

The Ultimate Snub: AOL Buys The Huffington Post and Doesn’t Tell TechCrunch

As we reported earlier, AOL has acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million, the largest buy for a stand alone new media property that we can recall, let alone a new media network. The size of the buy ... continue
Jason Calacanis To Take On TechCrunch….With An Email Newsletter

Jason Calacanis To Take On TechCrunch….With An Email Newsletter

Old habits die hard with some people in the tech news game, and Weblogs Inc and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis is going back to his roots, with a new email newsletter. The publication, titled Launch, aims to take ... continue
RUMOR MILL: TechCrunchAOL editor mulling job offer from Apple

RUMOR MILL: TechCrunchAOL editor mulling job offer from Apple

If there is one thing that is a constant in the tech industry it is the secretive ways of Apple's PR machine and the trigger finger of their legal department to go after anyone talking about Apple ... continue
NO MORE RUMOR: AOL buys TechCrunch [VIDEO]

NO MORE RUMOR: AOL buys TechCrunch [VIDEO]

The news is out all over the tech blogosphere - Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL took the stage of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today to announce that AOL has bought Techcrunch, and all its media properties. Of course ... continue
HOT RUMOR: AOL to buy TechCrunch – in late stages

HOT RUMOR: AOL to buy TechCrunch – in late stages

This just flashed up on GigaOM and must be placed strongly in the rumor column but Om Malik, who I have a great respect for, is reporting that while still at a delicate stage the deal that ... continue
Video: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Tells TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington To F*&k Off

Video: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Tells TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington To F*&k Off

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is well known for her strong way with words, and today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, she decided to use her vocabulary to put TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington in his ... continue
Twitter Hacker Pwnd By French Police

Twitter Hacker Pwnd By French Police

"Hacker Croll," the French hacker who leaked confidential business files from Twitter to TechCrunch last year has been arrested by French police. The hacker, who also gained access to the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama and other celebrities, ... continue
Like Meatloaf Through A Straw: Crunchgate Drags On

Like Meatloaf Through A Straw: Crunchgate Drags On

The whole Daniel Brusilovsky/ TechCrunch Crunchgate free laptops for coverage saga continues to drag on like a poorly written soap opera with a post from the founder of startup Divvyshot. Sam Odio confesses in a blog post that ... continue
WordPress.com Suffers Major Outage

WordPress.com Suffers Major Outage

WordPress.com, the hosted blog service from Automattic has suffered a major outage today, bringing down millions of free blogs, and a number of well known blogs. The outage started at around 1pm US PST (8am AEDT), and at ... continue
Guest Post On Daniel Brusilovsky: The View From Across The Pond

Guest Post On Daniel Brusilovsky: The View From Across The Pond

Guest Post Bio: Scott Campbell is a 14 year old freelance journalist and photographer. He's written for BBC News Online, The Huffington Post and various British newspapers. I'm Scott Campbell. I'm 14 and I previously worked for a ... continue
It’s Time Someone Threw Daniel Brusilovsky A Bone

It’s Time Someone Threw Daniel Brusilovsky A Bone

The sordid tale of cash for comment that has embroiled up and coming teen blogger Daniel Brusilovsky and TechCrunch has the tech blogosphere engrossed this week, but it's time someone threw Daniel a bone. If you've missed ... continue
TechCrunch and its lost Teachable Moment

TechCrunch and its lost Teachable Moment

It was a famous speech in Philadelphia during his run for office that President Obama got us to first think about Teachable Moments. The idea being that there are things that happen in our lives that are negative ... continue
TechCrunch sacks 17-year-old intern for trading toys for coverage

TechCrunch sacks 17-year-old intern for trading toys for coverage

Michael Arrington is "shaken" and has dismissed 17-year-old tech wunderkind Daniel Brusilovsky after information emerged that the kid was demanding shiny new tech toys in exchange for TechCrunch coverage. In a post publicly flogging the "unnamed" minor (easily ... continue
TechCrunch Hacked

TechCrunch Hacked

Tech site TechCrunch as been subject to a hacking that has taken its main content completely offline. As at 10:20pm PDT Monday (Jan 25) TechCrunch was offline with a message that simply stated "hi" on its main page ... continue
The he said – he said of the JooJoo saga continues

The he said – he said of the JooJoo saga continues

Yes folks it is time for another installment of the tech world's newest never-ending story in search of increased pageviews. In a move to counter the lawsuit now launched against them Fusion Garage, the company behind the ... continue
TechCrunch Files Lawsuit Against Fusion Garage Intellectual Property Rights

TechCrunch Files Lawsuit Against Fusion Garage Intellectual Property Rights

Michael Arrington promised to file a lawsuit against JooJoo maker Fusion Garage after their CrunchPad partnership had fallen apart, while Fusion Garage CEO Chander Rathakrishnan promised that no intellectual property was taken from the TechCrunch founder. Now ... continue
Fusion Garage Fights Back After Lopsided TechCrunch Story. Renames Device “JooJoo”

Fusion Garage Fights Back After Lopsided TechCrunch Story. Renames Device “JooJoo”

Fusion Garage’s Chandrasekar “Chandra” Rathakrishnan spoke in a press conference today about recent rumors surrounding the "CrunchPad" tablet device. His speech provided some excellent insight into the actual ownership of the tablet, while pulling a 180 degree ... continue
DOA: Vaporware CrunchPad goes up in smoke

DOA: Vaporware CrunchPad goes up in smoke

Despite winning a Popular Mechanics award for being one of the "most brilliant" products of 2009 sight-unseen, the mythical CrunchPad TechCrunch tablet has dissolved into a cloud of ill-will and bitchy sniping, much to the surprise of absolutely ... continue
TechCrunch Yahoo search deal: TechCrunch now offered as default on Yahoo Search

TechCrunch Yahoo search deal: TechCrunch now offered as default on Yahoo Search

Tech blog TechCrunch and search engine minnow Yahoo may have signed a secret search deal that sees TechCrunch search results offered on default Yahoo searches for tech startups. There has been no public disclosure of the deal that ... continue
VentureBeat acquires Tradevibes

VentureBeat acquires Tradevibes

Technology blog VentureBeat has announced this morning at the DEMO conference that it has acquired crowd sourced company database startup Tradevibes for an undisclosed sum. VentureBeat is renaming the service VentureBeatProfiles, and selling the new incarnation as a ... continue
The man who put Ashton Kutcher on stage claims the Valley shouldn’t be like Hollywood

The man who put Ashton Kutcher on stage claims the Valley shouldn’t be like Hollywood

I promised myself I'd stop taking shots at Techcrunch, it's not healthy and I've moved on, but as I choked on my breakfast this morning I've decided to relent, because the man who put Ashton Kutcher on ... continue