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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
She dismisses the interest in her flap with Michael Arrington as our culture's "OCD"
Siegler is becoming a venture capitalist while Nick Bilton turned down big bucks
His first post--which promises he'll do the same thing he did at TechCrunch--got lots of comments
Paul Carr quit his TechCrunch job with great fanfare and is now starting a new company
After Arrington, Paul Carr is the first blogger to quit the blog
The departed TechCrunch founder now says the fight with AOL wasn't that bad
The former TechCrunch editor is fighting with his replacement and starting his own blog
Just when it looked like the debate about TechCrunch's editorial integrity was over
Huffington blames the media in her defense of her journalism ethics
According to a statement from AOL, Erick Schonfeld is the new editor of TechCrunch
What's stopping Arrington from just starting a new blog?
Ousting the tech blog's founder leaves a power vacuum in Silicon Valley
Next Media Animation's version of the TechCrunch scandal is more colorful than most
If not that, he wants a clean break from The Huffington Post
Journalists are angry, employees don't know what's up
If AOL goes private, here are the properties on the chopping block
The latest: a veiled threat to a tech executive who he blames for not handing him a scoop
Top tech bloggers take public shots at each other over ethics debate
The Huffington Post founder may have just lost her credibility war with The New York Times
Mike Arrington will report on startups in which he has a financial interest
Many have wondered how the Silicon Valley blog would mesh with the AOL way
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