Michael Arrington
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Come To The TechCrunch 10-Year Birthday Meetup
On Saturday June 6 we are celebrating the ten year birthday of TechCrunch. 1,500 people will gather from 12-3 p.m. at the Presidio in San Francisco. Like the.. → Read More
“The Burned-Out Blogger’s Guide To PR” Is Amazing, Hilarious And Mostly True
More than anything else, Jason Kincaid’s new book The Burned-Out Blogger's Guide To PR is about the startup journey. It has something for everyone, and.. → Read More
TechCrunch Disrupt Starts With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
TechCrunch Disrupt, a thrice-yearly event where they drag me, the founder of TechCrunch, out like Lenin's embalmed body to show I'm still around, is but a.. → Read More
Getting Ready To Disrupt
Wow, it's been a while since I posted here on TechCrunch. Some of you may remember me as the founder of this site. Later I was fired by Arianna Huffington.. → Read More
Is There Much Of A Market For A Universal Translator?
Microsoft has an impressive new universal translator demonstration - Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid shows a real time translation of English (voice) to.. → Read More
Screw The Rich (Here’s How)
Tax the rich. Those bastards. I get why people who aren't rich hate those that are. No one really cares what they have, they only care what they have.. → Read More
Life At AOL – The Expenses War
I've said this before, but working at AOL is my first experience working at a "big" company. I've watched, mostly with amusement, as a Dilbert cartoon has.. → Read More
Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million
AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company,.. → Read More
Tesco's Dunnhumby Buys BzzAgent For $60 million
Tesco's wholly owned subsidiary Dunnhumby has acquired Boston based BzzAgent for around $60 million, we've confirmed. The companies will announce the.. → Read More
Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million – $50 Million
Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the deal, and the transaction will be announced in the next few days. The $40.. → Read More
We're In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble!
If you're an early stage venture capitalist or angel investor there is no time like the present to declare a bubble, say valuations are out of control and.. → Read More
Angel Investors Counter Y Combinator Start Fund With New $100 Million Early Stage "End Fund"
In a move reminiscent of AngelGate, Silicon Valley's top angel investors are banding together to counter what they're considering an existential threat. That.. → Read More
Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 million From Benchmark Capital
Uber, a young startup that let's people book a black car service on the fly via their mobile app, has closed an $11 million round valuing the company at $49.. → Read More
Uber CEO "Super Pumped" About Being Replaced By Founder
Know about Uber yet? It's one of those startups that I've been fascinated with since I first heard about it last summer. It lets you call for black car.. → Read More
WhaleShark Media Closes A Whale Of A Financing, Buys RetailMeNot
WhaleShark Media, an online coupon rollup play, launched in June 2010. It was primarily funded by Austin Ventures, which has strong experience rolling up the.. → Read More
Data Protectionism Begins In Earnest
Our post earlier tonight about Google shutting down Facebook's access to Gmail data exports makes me think two things. First, I'm not sure there's much data that Facebook doesn't already have with its 600 million users (although 1.3 billion people visit Google sites a week, so they're not exactly s… → Read More
Are You A Pirate?
I read blog posts by Don Dodge and Glenn Kelman today about people jumping from Google to Facebook and it got me thinking about entrepreneurs. Most people.. → Read More
Are You A Pirate?
I read blog posts by Don Dodge and Glenn Kelman today about people jumping from Google to Facebook and it got me thinking about entrepreneurs. Most people.. → Read More
Damnit Amex, Give Me A Credit Card
Just about every evening investor Dave McClure sends me an email pitching one of his startups for a story. Company X just got a user! That sort of thing... → Read More
UberCab Closes Uber Angel Round
UberCab, an app that lets users request a car service to pick them up wherever they are right now, has closed a $1.25 million angel financing round. First.. → Read More