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MG Siegler Joins CrunchFund As General Partner

by Jeff Weisbein October 3, 2011

According to the Michael Arrington’s new blog, UnCrunched, as well as an article on TechCrunch posted by Erick Schonfeld, MG Siegler has joined CrunchFund as a general partner. The news doesn’t come as too much of a surprise as most people who have been following the recent drama at TechCrunch probably expected something like this [...]

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Does The TechCrunch Acquisition Mark The End of An Era?

by Jeff Weisbein September 29, 2010

Now that it’s a done deal and Aol has acquired TechCrunch (along with two other companies today), I began to wonder whether this marks the end of an era. While I guess deep down, I knew a day like this would come – it just had to eventually, I never fully considered the implications it [...]

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Aol Buys TechCrunch, 5Min Media, and Thing Labs

by Jeff Weisbein September 28, 2010

It appears that it has been extremely busy the past few months in Aol’s Mergers & Acquisitions department. Today, Aol announced the acquisition of three companies – 5Min Media, TechCrunch, and Thing Labs.

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The Sad State of the Blogosphere

by Jeff Weisbein August 22, 2010

We have a problem. That problem is the current state of our blogosphere. It’s in complete shambles. Unfortunately, I’m well aware of what causes this problem and it’s not easily fixable. The cause of the problem is the need for visitors and pageviews, which both translate into money. Don’t get me wrong – making money [...]

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TechCrunch Sues FusionGarage, Aol. Spins Off, and Apple Tablet for $1,000?

by Jeff Weisbein December 12, 2009

Tech News from 12-7-09 through 12-11-09. This week includes TechCrunch suing FusionGarage for stealing the CrunchPad. Mozilla is launching Firefox Mobile for Nokia phones, Windows Mobile, and Google Android. No Firefox Mobile for the iPhone has been mentioned yet (that I have seen). By the way, Firefox Mobile will support extensions such as Adblock. [...]

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TechCrunch’s Super Secret Spy Subdomain

by Jeff Weisbein August 8, 2009

Earlier today, TechCrunch Co-editor, Erick Schonfeld made a blog post about his issues with Firefox 3.5. However, in that blog post, he posted a screenshot (see below) which included a tab labeled “TechCrunch Spy”. Purposely or not, it stirred some discussion in the comments. Thinking it would be too obvious (I tried it anyway), and [...]

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TechCrunch: I’m Calling You Out – The Race To 1 Million Posts

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009

This is it! It’s the 300th post on BestTechie.net! I’m now approximately 12,060 posts behind TechCrunch which according to my math has 12,360 (give or take). Currently, TechCrunch is sporting 618 pages of posts with 20 posts per page – if I did my math correctly (and I hope I did since I even double [...]

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