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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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"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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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