Jack Dorsey, Ron Conway to attend The Crunchies Awards
It’s time to get excited for The Crunchies Awards. The final line-up of notable guests has been released, making us all the more excited to co-host this star-studded event.
Harris Wittels, “Parks and Recreation” writer and all-around funny guy, will take the stage as the host of the 2011 Crunchies Awards next Tuesday night, January 31. VentureBeat, GigaOm, and TechCrunch are hosting the event, awarding the best tech innovation of 2011.
The event is chock-full … Continue Reading
TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde resigns from the AOL-owned company
AOL has lost another executive, as TechCrunch‘s chief executive office Heather Harde leaves the blog AOL bought in 2010.
The departure was confirmed on Friday in a post by Erick Schonfeld, the company’s current EIC. News first broke when TechCrunch founder and former editor-in-chief Michael Arrington tweeted, “Heather Harde has resigned from TechCrunch. Sad day.”
Harde told VentureBeat in an email, “My last official day will be December 31, but I will continue to help … Continue Reading
Crunchies tickets on sale now. Get yours while you can!
Update: That was quick! Tickets have already sold out. The next batch will go on sale before the holidays, so stay tuned.
Tickets for Silicon Valley’s hottest annual event are on sale now.
That’s right, you can now buy the first, extremely limited batch of tickets to the Crunchies, which are coming up January 31, 2012.
Crunchies tickets go on sale at 10am today. We’re only making a few available in this batch, so act … Continue Reading
The Crunchies are coming up, and you have one more day to enter
Silicon Valley’s annual technology awards, the Crunchies, are coming up January 31, 2012.
The Crunchies have been co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat every year since their inception in 2007. This year, the awards will be held in glamorous Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and we hear there will be a swell after-party. Stay tuned for details on how to get tickets.
We’ll be accepting nominations until midnight Pacific time tomorrow (December 13th, at … Continue Reading
For venture investing, will 2012 look more like 2008 than 2011? (poll)
Will 2012 be a continuation of the good, bubble-like times for the venture capital industry and startups that are raising money? Or will we see a dramatic, economic-doldrums-induced slowdown like we did at the end of 2008?
Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch has raised these interesting questions in a post that recalls the R.I.P. Good Times slide deck that Sequoia Capital produced in 2008 as it was predicting disastrous times for startups and advising those startups … Continue Reading
VentureBeat to co-host the 5th annual Crunchies Awards
The 2011 Crunchies Awards are coming up. We’re happy to announce that we’ll be co-hosting the event, along with our friends at TechCrunch and GigaOm, as we have done every year since the awards started in 2007.
This annual celebration of startups and technology will be held on January 31, and it’s moving to the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, a gorgeous venue that seats over 2,000 people, so there will be twice the … Continue Reading
Aol executive Brad Garlinghouse departs as talent stampede continues
Senior Aol executive Brad Garlinghouse has left the company according to multiple sources.
Garlinghouse was in charge of the Applications and Commerce Group and headed up the company’s Silicon Valley operations from its Palo Alto office.
The news of Garlinghouse’s departure comes admist a slew of high-profile defections among Aol’s media properties.
Today, it was reported that TechCrunch senior editor Heather Harde left the company. Also, TechCrunch senior editor Sarah Lacy left the company this … Continue Reading
Start-up’s gaffe raises questions about blogs in Silicon Valley
We’ve pulled this story down after talking further with the startup involved. We apologize to the startup and to TechCrunch.… Continue Reading
Tech news owes a lot to Arrington, conflicts and all
A lot has changed since I first made it to Silicon Valley a little more than a year ago.
But one thing has remained constant: the ruthless competition for discovering and reporting the best news stories. Among those competitors is TechCrunch, one of the most efficient and tenacious tech news publications in the valley.
Michael Arrington stands — or, stood, rather — at the center of that team. His personality and potential conflicts of interest … Continue Reading
VentureBeat this week: Conference mayhem, Windows 8, and our show still needs a name
We’re back with another episode of VentureBeat’s (still nameless) weekly show. I sat down with VentureBeat executive editor Dylan Tweney to talk about this week’s absolute conference mayhem.
Four shows happened to fall on the same three days this week: Microsoft Build, the Intel Developer Forum, TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 and VentureBeat’s own Demo Fall 2011 conference. We split up the VentureBeat team to bring you coverage of everything all at once.
The biggest news this … Continue Reading
TechCrunch’s Arrington to start new personal blog
Surprising no one, TechCrunch founder and former editor-in-chief Michael Arrington announced that he’s planning to start a new personal blog within the next few days, according to a Twitter post from last night.
Arrington, who was dramatically ousted from TechCrunch after announcing a new venture fund, will join the ranks of well-known venture capitalists like Fred Wilson and Paul Graham who also run their own personal blogs.
Since such blogs aren’t journalistic enterprises, there should … Continue Reading
Here’s what you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt (photo gallery)
It wasn’t long before the everyone found out the news of the day at TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Michael Arrington, founder and editor-in-chief of TechCrunch, had stepped down amid controversy surrounding his new investment fund, the CrunchFund.
The whole hooplah put a little bit of a damper on the show at first. But the mood quickly picked up once some of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors and power players took the stage … Continue Reading
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington takes off
Michael Arrington, founder of technology blog TechCrunch and known for his fiery personality and zero tolerance for corporate authority, has “decided” to move on from the San Francisco-based tech news publication.
“It’s no longer a good situation for me to stay at TechCrunch,” Arrington said at his company’s annual conference TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. “It’s a sad day for me because this is a baby and I built this and I built the team … Continue Reading
AOL reportedly drops TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington for real this time, techies chime in
Michael Arrington, founder of technology blog TechCrunch and known for his fiery personality and zero tolerance for corporate authority, is no longer with the San Francisco-based tech news publication, according to a report by Fortune.
Yes, this is a drawn out saga, and we already reported last week that an AOL spokesperson had said Arrington was no longer employed at AOL. But then there was more back and forth, and everything was still unclear again … Continue Reading
Arrington puts a $30M pricetag on journalistic ethics
TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington struck a furious note today in favor of what he called “editorial independence,” but failed to answer the real question about how cozy TechCrunch is with his own investments.
However, he did put a price on that coziness: $30 million, more or less.
In his brief post, Arrington demanded “autonomy from Huffington Post, unfettered editorial independence and a blanket right to editorial self determination.”
In other words, he wants TechCrunch to … Continue Reading
TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington is raising his own venture fund
Michael Arrington, founder of the influential technology blog TechCrunch, is raising a $20 million fund to invest in early-state tech startups.
According to Fortune, the primary partner in the fund will be TechCrunch parent company Aol.
UPDATE: An Aol spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that the TechCrunch founder will indeed be a partner in “CrunchFund,” as the investment fund will be called. The rep also stated that Arrington will be replaced by a new managing editor … Continue Reading
