Come To The TechCrunch 10-Year Birthday Meetup
2:42 pm PDT • May 27, 2015
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 meetups ten…
“The Burned-Out Blogger’s Guide To PR” Is Amazing, Hilarious And Mostly True
1:14 pm PDT • September 9, 2014
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 it’s smart. It’s also laugh-out-loud…
TechCrunch Disrupt SF Starts With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
4:18 pm PDT • September 2, 2014
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 week away. And if…
Getting Ready To Disrupt
7:23 am PDT • April 25, 2014
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…
Would Facebook Have Sold To Yahoo for $1.6 Billion? We’ll Never Know
11:02 am PDT • March 13, 2013
Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel talks about Facebook rejecting a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006. He and Accel’s Jim Breyer were on the same page – “take the money…
If You’re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter
9:39 pm PST • March 3, 2013
Facebook is showing your content to far fewer people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number…
There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too
3:05 pm PST • March 3, 2013
Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has…
Jason Kincaid On The Mythology Of TechCrunch
11:17 am PST • February 24, 2013
Editor’s note: The interview between Hunter Walk and Jason Kincaid reprinted below originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Hunter on LinkedIn. I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interview Jason…
If America Was A Startup We’d All Quit
11:16 am PST • February 22, 2013
So I was chatting with my dad yesterday. We had a long drive home after the Department of Homeland Security seized and impounded my boat. The mood was somber. We…
Truth, Money, Right, Wrong
5:22 pm PST • January 26, 2013
Yesterday I wrote about the ongoing CNET editorial independence issue. I said that the editors and journalists at CNET were part of the problem, and suggested that they either publish…
“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers”
9:41 pm PST • January 25, 2013
A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation – they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation…
Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
11:54 am PST • January 14, 2013
Nik Cubrilovic points out that people were significantly less enraged by Aaron’s legal troubles just a few months ago.
Cue User Data Shows Email Problem Worsening
5:19 pm PST • January 2, 2013
In 2008 I was griping about 2,433 unread emails in my inbox. Which is nothing. Today it’s up around 7,000, and I declared an email bankruptcy just a few months…
The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks!
10:24 pm PST • January 1, 2013
I love talking about taxes. Our President and both houses of Congress have finally all agreed on a deal on this whole fiscal cliff mess. I’ve been holding my breath…
I’m Bored. What’s Next?
10:34 pm PST • December 30, 2012
It’s just about 2013 and I gotta say, I’m a little bored. At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about…
I’m So Ashamed Of TechCrunch Today
2:49 pm PST • December 21, 2012
TechCrunch reader Kuan Yong sent me an email today showing me something that I thought I’d never see. I thought it must be some photoshopped joke. But I’ve confirmed it…
Ron Conway: The Painting
11:39 pm PST • December 14, 2012
Ron Conway, Silicon Valley’s best known angel investor, got quite a gift this evening. Laurene Jobs, the wife of the late Steve Jobs, dropped by the Conway annual holiday party…
Who Is This? (Sprint + Google Voice Is Hopeless)
6:29 pm PST • December 12, 2012
You can’t say I didn’t give it an honest try. It was over a year ago now that I tried switching from an Android phone to the iPhone. The main…
They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead
12:35 am PST • December 6, 2012
We just got screwed. More on this below. Nobody says “Web 2.0” anymore. The term just didn’t stand the test of time, long ago it became clichéd. But a handful…
Drop Everything Immediately And Make Your Own Gangnam Style Video With JibJab
12:58 pm PST • November 27, 2012
A TechCrunch tradition: wasting time in the office by putting ourselves and coworkers into JibJab videos (and then posting them). They just released a Gangnam Style one, starring you as…
2 Legit 2 Gangnam Style: How The Amazing Hammer/PSY Duo Was Born At Google Zeitgeist
12:01 pm PST • November 19, 2012
The question isn’t really whether you’ll watch the amazing Gangnam Style video with MC Hammer from the American Music Awards last night. It’s how many times you’ll hit “replay.” I’ve…
Livestar 2.0: Reviews Done Right (Also, Get A $30 Amazon Gift Card)
9:09 pm PST • November 18, 2012
Livestar first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt a few months ago. It’s a mobile app that lets you see (and write) reviews for the things you generally want reviews for -…
Mark Cuban Bought Facebook Stock, Right Before He Didn’t
11:09 am PST • November 13, 2012
Dan Lyons has a post over on ReadWrite facilitating a classic Mark Cuban rant. Cuban is pissed about the Facebook Promote fees for the Dallas Mavericks Facebook page – he…
Apple Stomps On Tapjoy’s App Download Circle Jerk (Again)
7:08 pm PST • November 11, 2012
Memories of Scamville have faded, and we don’t see the brazen customer ripoff schemes from the big gaming companies these days. But the main company behind Scamville, Offerpal (the company…
Is There Much Of A Market For A Universal Translator?
11:55 pm PST • November 8, 2012
Microsoft has an impressive new universal translator demonstration – Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid shows a real time translation of English (voice) to Chinese (voice, via text), with the interesting…
Hey Google, Your Nexus 7 Marketing Images Look Like Crap
11:43 pm PDT • October 31, 2012
No one understands why President Obama didn’t hammer Governor Romney on his 47% secret video comments during the first presidential debate. In hindsight, a mistake. Like President Obama, Google is…
If You Love Startups And Live In San Francisco, Vote Yes On Prop E
10:22 am PDT • October 31, 2012
San Francisco residents will be voting on Proposition E next week, an important measure aimed at eliminating the ridiculous payroll tax companies here pay and replacing it with a (slightly…
Paid Blogger
12:02 pm PDT • October 23, 2012
Hey. My name is Michael Arrington. For newer readers who don’t know, I founded TechCrunch back in 2005. Last year I was fired and began writing on Uncrunched.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer On Stage At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco
4:08 pm PDT • July 18, 2012
It was May 2010 and all I wanted was an answer to my question, “What is Yahoo?” Then Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz wasn’t able to answer that question. But the…
I’m Back
11:44 am PDT • April 4, 2012
Hey! So TechCrunch Disrupt New York is just around the corner on May 19-23. So, what, you say, you don’t work here any more, right? (for the newer TechCrunch readers,…
