Michael Arrington

TechCrunch founder and former editor-in-chief Michael Arrington has launched a new blog. The site, called Uncrunched, recently went live with a solely user-generated post entitled “Here I am”. The post generated some 503 comments.Following this, however, a second post was put up explaining exactly what Arrington aims to do ...

Personally, I've never liked Carol Bartz. For some reason, it is impossible for her name to be mentioned without a mental image of Sarah Palin forming in my head instead. And you don't need to know a great deal of my political views to understand that this isn't a good ...

AOL has named Erick Schonfield as the new editor of popular US technology blog TechCrunch. The announcement puts an end to days of controversy and uncertainty around the fate of site founder Michael Arrington.Much of the controversy arose after Arrington announced that he would be launching a US$20-million Venture ...

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has left the popular blog to start a venture capital fund aimed at investing in tech startups. Arrington has partnered with TechCrunch's parent company AOL to raise US$20-million for the new company, CrunchFund, with AOL investing a reported US$10-million in the venture.According to The Wall Street Journal, ...

In this rather funny clip, Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington is brought down to earth in dramatic fashion by the straight-talking and rather foul-mouthed Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz. This all happens at Arrington's very own Disrupt Conference.To hilarious laughter, Bartz takes a shot at Arrington, saying: “...you are a very ...

When it comes to news about internet startups, web trends and innovations, blogs are a way better source than traditional media. If you want to know what’s happening on the web, there are some key blogs that should form part of your daily reading. Most serious online fundis use ...

A post on Poynter's e-media Tidbits by Paul Bradshaw caught my eye. It essentially captures something I've been mulling for a while: When is a blogger not a blogger anymore? A typical lifecycle of some successful bloggers is that they start off as small, independent, opinionated writers but then, ...