Whatever Happened to TechCrunch?
By Carl Franzen - February 29, 2012, 11:35AM
Unbelievable as it may sound, the soap opera that has engulfed the popular tech blog TechCrunch and its corporate parent AOL is still going on. On Wednesday, former TechCrunch editor... Read More »
AOL Loss Less Than Expected, CEO Quells Yahoo Merger Rumors
By Carl Franzen - November 2, 2011, 2:32PM
There's good news and bad news from AOL's third quarter earnings statement released on Wednesday. Per custom, here's the bad news first: AOL still reported a net loss of income,... Read More »
Life After TechCrunch: Arrington Launches New Blog, Funds Paul Carr's Startup
By Carl Franzen - September 26, 2011, 3:00PM
The AOL TechCrunch saga that began with the news of founder and editor Michael Arrington's new venture fund and concluded with his ouster and the noisy public resignation of writer... Read More »
TechCrunch Writer Skewers New Editor In Resignation Letter
By Carl Franzen - September 16, 2011, 6:22PM
Updated 8.48 am ET, Saturday, September 17 That's one way to burn a bridge. TechCrunch writer Paul Carr, one of the website's most vocal and consistent critics of its relationship... Read More »
The TechCrunch Saga Continues...
By Carl Franzen - September 15, 2011, 9:00AM
Updated 9:24 a.m. ET, Thursday, September 15 Perhaps you thought that TechCrunch's now two-week long meltdown would have reached some sort of conclusion, or at least a tapering-off, after Monday's... Read More »
Peter Thiel: Google's Search Monopoly Is "More Powerful" Than Microsoft's (MSFT, GOOG)
By Sarah Lai Stirland - September 12, 2011, 5:21PM
Matt Rosoff | Business Insider Investor Peter Thiel of the Founders Fund just got off stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, where he was taking about a new book he's writing with... Read More »
AOL Confirms: Founder Michael Arrington Out At TechCrunch
By Carl Franzen - September 12, 2011, 12:18PM
Updated 4:14 p.m. ET, Monday, Sept. 12 TechCrunch's founder and editor Michael Arrington is no longer with the blog, corporate parent AOL finally confirmed Monday in a statement. The news... Read More »
TechCrunch Roiled By Reports of Michael Arrington's Firing
By Carl Franzen - September 8, 2011, 6:50PM
The messy public saga embroiling AOL's fiesty gadget blog Tech Crunch - "CrunchGate," as one of the blog's less subtle commenters put it - has now been going on for... Read More »
TechCrunch Writers Take on The New York Times, AOL
By Carl Franzen - September 6, 2011, 1:19PM
Updated 2:59 p.m., Tuesday Sept. 6 Things have gone from bad to worse at TechCrunch. It was bad enough that TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington was reported to be... Read More »
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Leaves AOL, Arianna Huffington Confirms
By Carl Franzen - September 2, 2011, 10:17AM
The U.S.'s net job creation was zero last month, and now we know of at least one job that was lost this month. TechCrunch has lost its founder and editor... Read More »
