Topic: Michael Arrington

The Weirdest Thing About MG Siegler's New Job Isn't How Unethical It Is

Reuters

The popular tech writer was already straddling the blogger/investor line as both a TechCrunch writer and a partner at CrunchFund, the VC fund started by fellow blogger-without-morals Michael Arrington. The more surprising part of today's news, then, is that Siegler would deign to work for Google Ventures after writing so unabashedly in favor of Apple all these years.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 12, 2013

Reading Through Michael Arrington's Info Dump on Jenn Allen

Last night former Silicon Valley start-up big-wig Michael Arrington published a letter from his lawyer to Jenn Allen, one of the women who has accused him of sexual assault, most of which was meant to destroy her character and credibility.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 9, 2013

A Guide to All the Talking About Michael Arrington

Despite the suggestion that everyone is too afraid to talk about the former TechCrunch overlord, over the last week and a half there has been a lot of talking about Michael Arrington and the allegations (now denied by Arrington) that he has a history fo abusing women.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 5, 2013

Who's Afraid of Michael Arrington?

The reason the press has stayed mostly silent in the wake of sexual assault allegations connected to Silicon Valley big-wig Michael is not because, as several have suggested, the tech world is scared of the TechCrunch founder.

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By David Wagner

Feb 22, 2013

Michael Arrington Humblebrags About the Government Taking His Boat

Don't you just hate it when the Department of Homeland Security seizes your boat? TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington sure does, blogging about the incident as if it were a totally relatable, normal problem that regular people go through.

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By Connor Simpson

Oct 23, 2012

Michael Arrington and AOL Agree to Play Nice

TechCrunch's departed founder Michael Arrington has finally agreed to play nice with his creation's new owners. Arrington and AOL have spent enough time apart, gone through the proper counseling, and are ready to see each other again. Arrington is rejoining TechCrunch as a columnist. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 23, 2012

Silicon Valley Hates People Talking About Its Love of Spending Money

After The New York Times's Nick Bilton jotted down his observations of his first year living in Silicon Valley, we have two versions of the tech industry's relationship: casual millionaires who don't flaunt their wealth and people who rent tigers and big giant piles of snow for their house parties.

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By Eric Randall

Apr 4, 2012

Michael Arrington Is (Briefly) Back at TechCrunch

Michael Arrington, founder of of the popular tech blog TechCrunch is back and guest blogging for the site despite an epic, public flame war with the blog's corporate owners at AOL that ended with his exit.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 27, 2012

The AOL-Fueled Implosion of TechCrunch Is Complete

After months of turmoil, the last of the old school TechCrunch staff is stepping down and handing off the keys to a new set of hands.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 23, 2012

Journalists Still Don't Understand Silicon Valley

As yet another jousting match goes down between a member of the New York City media elite and a Silicon Valley-based blogger dude, we're starting to get concerned that journalists covering the tech industry have no idea what they're doing.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Feb 14, 2012

More Name Calling in the Tech Blog 'Cesspool'

The big names in the world of tech and startup reporting aren't backing down from their latest war of words about who is doing the best job ruining their industry.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 13, 2012

Some Tech Bloggers Are Turning on Blogging

Claiming to be fed up with technology blogging noise, technology bloggers Michael Arrington and MG Siegler have written some noisy rants about technology blogging this morning.

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By Connor Simpson

Nov 27, 2011

Michael Arrington Wants You to Work in a Digital Sweatshop

Amid discussions in the tech community over the health of young, overworked engineers, Michael Arrington has written a polarizing post on Uncrunched urging Silicon Valley to, "work more, cry less, and quit all the whining."

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By Adam Martin

Nov 21, 2011

Ebay Buys Hunch for $80 Million

In a scoop for Michael Arrington's new Uncrunched, news broke this morning that Ebay would acquire crowd-sourced search startup Hunch for $80 million.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 13, 2011

Arianna Huffington Knows a Lot About Non-Stories

She dismisses the interest in her flap with Michael Arrington as our culture's "OCD"

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 4, 2011

The Tech Blogger Bubble Is Here

Siegler is becoming a venture capitalist while Nick Bilton turned down big bucks

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 26, 2011

Michael Arrington Has a New Blog Already

His first post--which promises he'll do the same thing he did at TechCrunch--got lots of comments

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 23, 2011

A Former TechCrunch Writer Is Taking Arrington's Money to Vegas

Paul Carr quit his TechCrunch job with great fanfare and is now starting a new company

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 16, 2011

The TechCrunch Exodus Begins

After Arrington, Paul Carr is the first blogger to quit the blog

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 15, 2011

Arrington Says He Got Very, Very Close to an Agreement with AOL

The departed TechCrunch founder now says the fight with AOL wasn't that bad

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 15, 2011

The Arrington-less TechCrunch Is Off to a Rocky Start

The former TechCrunch editor is fighting with his replacement and starting his own blog

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 13, 2011

TechCrunch Readers Revolt After Rave for Arrington-Funded Company

Just when it looked like the debate about TechCrunch's editorial integrity was over

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 12, 2011

Grasping for Meaning in the Huffington-Arrington Spat

Huffington blames the media in her defense of her journalism ethics

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 12, 2011

The End: Mike Arrington 'Has Decided' to Leave AOL and TechCrunch

According to a statement from AOL, Erick Schonfeld is the new editor of TechCrunch

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

AOL's TechCrunch Dilemma: Either Pay Up or Fight

What's stopping Arrington from just starting a new blog?

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 8, 2011

After Arrington: Anarchy at TechCrunch

Ousting the tech blog's founder leaves a power vacuum in Silicon Valley

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By Adam Martin

Sep 7, 2011

The Arrington-Huffington Fight Simplified by Taiwanese Video

Next Media Animation's version of the TechCrunch scandal is more colorful than most

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Michael Arrington Wants to Buy TechCrunch Back from AOL

If not that, he wants a clean break from The Huffington Post

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Making Sense of TechCrunch's Disastrous Holiday Weekend

Journalists are angry, employees don't know what's up

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By John Hudson

Aug 31, 2011

What an AOL Garage Sale Would Look Like

If AOL goes private, here are the properties on the chopping block

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By John Hudson

Jun 21, 2011

The Many Brawls of Michael Arrington

The latest: a veiled threat to a tech executive who he blames for not handing him a scoop

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By Ujala Sehgal

May 8, 2011

Michael Arrington on Tech Press: 'Screw Them All'

Top tech bloggers take public shots at each other over ethics debate

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By John Hudson

Apr 29, 2011

Arianna Huffington's Legitimacy Problem

The Huffington Post founder may have just lost her credibility war with The New York Times

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By John Hudson

Apr 28, 2011

TechCrunch Founder Lowers the Bar for Journalistic Independence

Mike Arrington will report on startups in which he has a financial interest

Comments | 332 Views

By John Hudson

Mar 15, 2011

AOL Delivers Anti-Snark Directive to TechCrunch

Many have wondered how the Silicon Valley blog would mesh with the AOL way

Comments | 247 Views

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