The blogosphere is abuzz in the wake of President Barack Obama's statement in Shanghai Sunday night that he doesn't use Twitter, nor has he ever Tweeted. Should it matter?
Adam Elkus | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Crowdsourced news, the overhyped New York indie rock band of today's media world, has finally been brought down to Earth.
businessinsider.com | Posted 12.03.2009 | Technology
How'd Pete do it? "Being called the Brad Pitt of the blogosphere didn't hurt," writes Inc's Nitasha Tiku. And it's true, unlike most tech blogs...
techcrunch.com | Posted 11.28.2009 | Technology
Microsoft generates around $20 billion a year in pre-tax profit, and spends nearly $10 billion on research and development. When Microsoft thinks abou...
Ben Jabbawy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
GPush, the app my team and I built this summer, was the first to offer push Gmail notifications to the iPhone. At its peak, GPush ranked 17th on Apple's most-downloaded list.
Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology
Facebook--sick of TechCrunch not calling them to fact check stories--pranks TechCrunch with a fake "fax this photo" service. Michael Arrington: "They ...
Tim Berry | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media
You don't have to appear in print to be a journalist; but you do have to have a code of conduct.
Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
A.J. Keen: Technology start-ups have become the "hottest celebrities in America... Receiving the same kind of obsessionally intimate coverage... that was once reserved for... Michael Jackson or Elvis."
Paul Dailing | Posted 05.11.2009 | Comedy
A good Rosenbaum v. Jarvis style feud can drive up hits and increase name recognition for both sides. Maybe we'll be paid to argue on TV.
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business
I am truly upset about this latest breach to take place involving my confidential information. It is shocking that a firm as wealthy and prominent as KPCB would have outsourced their information systems.
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green
Can an online marketplace with information about products' social and environmental impacts change the world -- or is it just another way to ease consumer guilt?
Paige Donner | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media
Feel like getting social while going green(er)? Launched earlier this summer is Greenopolis, a social networking site that functions like the others,...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business
Our national politics and economics have come to be defined by the inflation and violent pricking of bubble after bubble.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
This little bundle of cuteness is my friend Jen's baby, Tyler. He's four months old and the first time I met him I agonized over what to get him as a ...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
While judge Stanton declined Viacom's request for YouTube's proprietary code, he ordered Google to provide Viacom with userIDs and IP addresses (for unregistered users) as well as three terabytes of video.
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Is Google done with its famous motto, "Don't be evil?" TechCrunch's Michael Arrington cites remarks by Google star Marissa Mayer that suggest that eve...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.12.2008 | Business
News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media group, which includes MySpace and other web sites, will miss the company's goals of $1 billion in revenue and $200 ...
Portfolio.com | Lloyd Grove | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Nobody is more obsessed with the doings of Silicon Valley than Michael Arrington, whose 2½-year-old website, TechCrunch.com, has become an internatio...
San Francisco Chronicle | Sam Zuckerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to...
Forbes | Brian Caulfield | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In the old days, say circa 2000, most Web bloggers were online diarists, usually political or, worse, technological cranks who engaged in obscure reli...
Ari Herzog | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media