AOL to gobble up TechCrunchUS media giant AOL is currently doing a deal to purchase blog network TechCrunch. The news is expected to be officially unveiled at the TechCrunch conference currently under way in San Francisco.
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Meet the women who rule the web
The internet is no longer a geeky boys club with not a female in sight. Think of the founder of Flickr, CEO of TechCrunch and the social media guru of the NY Times: all ladies.
TechCrunch crowdsources hacker revenge
Tech news site TechCrunch was hacked earlier this year, and police have finally found the culprit. So should it press charges? The site is letting readers decide.
Download Paul Carr’s True Confessions Of A New Media Whore free
Online journalist Paul Carr has made the controversial move of releasing the entire text of his popular 2008 book, Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore free online. Read his justification — and the book — here.
Arrington: The embargo is dead, chaos rules
When Michael Arrington, founder of tech gossip blog TechCrunch, announced he would no longer be honoring press embargoes, critics predicted it kill the site. But a year on, he says, embargoes are virtually extinct in the tech world, and his readers couldn’t be happier.
VIDEO: TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington on Charlie Rose
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington talks to Charlie Rose about Google vs. Microsoft Bing, e-readers, Facebook and his decision to publish those leaked Twitter documents.
Not just another story about Twitter. Honest.
Yesterday, one of the world’s most influential journalists decided to publish confidential leaked financial, strategic and planning documents from one of the world’s hottest multi-million dollar companies.
TechCrunch release confidential Twitter documents
Hundreds of pages of confidential internal documents from Twitter have been leaked to TechCrunch, which they claim “rhave so much news value that we think it’s appropriate to publish them.” And so they have.
TechCrunch set to build e-reader prototype
Step aside Kindle and Cool-er, TechCrunch is creating their very own e-reader.
Blogwatch: the Facebook edition
Facebook set to become just another spammer? … Facebook has fulfilled its destiny: it is now Adbook … Just capitalising on what friends already do … Facebook abuse, the new web violation … Does it even work anyway?
