Michael Arrington
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Women in Tech: What to do now
Venture Beat &bull Yesterday
Debates about women in technology are like merry-go-rounds: There's a lot of movement and excitement but you always end up back in the same place. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington argued that in Silicon Valley (and by extension, the tech business in general) success is based on merit alone and that nobody is keeping women down. The problem, as far as he is concerned, is simply that women just don't want to start companies. These are arguments I've heard before - and that are, at best, naive. Merit alone is rarely enough to ensure success and… Full Story »
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Loren Feldman - The Jester In The Court Of Web 2.0
Silicon Valley Watcher &bull Sep 1, 2010
[From left to right: Loren Feldman with Mike Arrington, Loic LeMeur, Robert Scoble during happier times - photo from Loic LeMeur]Loren Feldman is the New York City based publisher of 1938Media.com, a fascinating, irreverent and funny critic of the West… Full Story »
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Implications of New Gowalla Feature, Facebook Gift Cards
Jatin Mahindra &bull Sep 1, 2010Gowalla has launched a new feature called "highlights" which it describes as "little rewards you can give to places that are important to your life". MG Siegler talks about the potential significance of such a feature. Where this gets really… Full Story »
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Facebook is telling recruits "there's no reason their stock won't hit $100 billion in total valuation o...
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Sep 1, 2010
Facebook is telling recruits "there's no reason their stock won't hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years," says Mike Arrington. Copyright 2010 Business Insider, Inc. All rights reserved. Registration on or use of this site… Full Story »
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Googler Turns Down $500,000 Cash Bonus To Quit And Join Facebook (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Sep 1, 2010
Facebook is recruiting like crazy right now and Google is doing everything it can do to hang on to employees. TechCrunch's Mike Arrington says the company offered one employee a 15% raise and $500,000 retension bonus. The employee turned it… Full Story »
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Google Voice Problems Limited
Information Week &bull Aug 31, 2010
The meltdown scenario is a common one among Internet companies. The executive summary goes something like this: Launch a great new service or feature. See usage surge. See the service fail. That's more or less what TechCrunch founder and editor… Full Story »
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Digg Has Reportedly Found Its CEO
Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 31, 2010Original Article: Digg has reportedly found its new CEO. According to TechCrunch, the company has hired former Amazon General Manager of Consumer Payments Matt Williams to fill the role. Michael Arrington says Digg Founder Kevin Rose, who has assumed the… Full Story »
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Is There a Gender Divide in Startups?
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 31, 2010
Leah Culver is a software engineer and entrepreneur in San Francisco. She co-founded Pownce, a blogging website which was acquired by Six Apart. Now she advises startups and plots her next company. The blogosphere has renewed the debate about the gender disparity in the tech industry.… Full Story »
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Arrington: "Women Entrepreneurs - Stop Blaming Men For Your Problems."
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 30, 2010
You missed a big nasty debate over the weekend about the extremely low number of women entrepreneurs and what's being done to change it. It all started when the Wall Street Journal's Shira Ovide published a Friday editorial headlined " Addressing The Lack of Women Leading Tech Start-ups ." According to Ovide, "only about 11%… Full Story »
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- Zivity
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TechCrunch's "CrunchPad" Case Vs. JooJoo Tablet Likely Has Merit
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 30, 2010
I Just read on Daring Fireball that the judge has denied TechCrunch's claim for preliminary injunction against their former tablet partners and makers of JooJoo, Fusion Garage. Gruber claims that "Mike Arrington gets smacked around in the first round of his lawsuit over the JooJoo/CrunchPad. In short: TechCrunch didn't get much in… Full Story »
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More Women In Tech Discussions
Feld Thoughts &bull Aug 29, 2010
The blogo-twitter-sphere erupted this weekend in response to an article in the WSJ on Friday titled Addressing The Lack Of Women Leading Tech Start-ups. I missed most of it as I was pretty heads down this weekend going through the… Full Story »
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Why aren't there more women in Tech? My list of 30 great women
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing &bull Aug 29, 2010
The Wall Street Journal today wrote about the lack of women in tech pointing out that 11% of venture backed companies have current or former women CEOs. The writer also pointed out that Ycombinator has just 14 female founders out… Full Story »
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The Lack of Tech Industry Diversity - 1 Year Later
Venture Chronicles Social Media &bull Aug 29, 2010
The WSJ wrongly takes aim at Mike Arrington on the topic of women in tech. I don't agree with him that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs (but I'm married to one so I'm biased) however I do agree that the WSJ is flat out wrong to target TechCrunch for an issue that is not of their making nor within… Full Story »
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Twitter Names President Of Revenue
Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 23, 2010Here's something for individuals who have expressed concern about Twitter's underwhelming financial achievements: three and a half years after the company was officially founded, Adam Bain has been appointed Twitter's president of revenue. Bain previously enjoyed the title "President, Audience… Full Story »
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Skype engineering chief jumps ship amidst tech blog comment debacle
Venture Beat &bull Aug 19, 2010
Only a month after Skype's new chief development officer Madhu Yarlagadda joined the company, comes news that he's leaving due to "personal reasons", a company spokesperson told the New York Times today. Of course, there's a potentially juicier reason he's… Full Story »
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Google Reportedly Acquiring Like.com
Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 16, 2010Google is reportedly acquiring Like.com for over $100 million. According to Michael Arrington, the companies are in the final stages of the deal, based on word from "multiple sources". Combining the best in Computer Vision and Machine Learning technology with… Full Story »
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Google Said To Make Another Social Acquisition
Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 9, 2010Time and time again, critics have said that Google can't create a successful social product, and pointed to Google Buzz, Google Lively, and Google Wave as evidence. Google can buy successful social products, however, and it's reportedly done so again… Full Story »
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Delta Flight 1843 From JFK To Hell
TechCrunch 2008 Web 2.0 Companies &bull Aug 8, 2010
More than a few of you have cut business travel to the bare minimum, I'm guessing. The improvement in video calling and presentations is probably the biggest reason - with things like Skype video and screen sharing we're not all that far away from having a near-in person virtual experience. But the orchestrated indignities of air travel - and you know exactly what I mean - also play a part. Flying from one place to another, unless you are doing it from a small airport on a private jet, is just going from bad to intolerable. I'm not talking about… Full Story »
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Glitch Continues To Iron Out The Glitches, Beta Due Soon
TechCrunch &bull Aug 7, 2010
Back in February, the first glimpses of Glitch, a new massively multiplayer online game created by Tiny Speck, were shown to the world. Stewart Butterfield, the co-creator of Flickr and co-founder of Tiny Speck, gave us a walk-through of the… Full Story »
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Jason Calacanis Tries To Poach TechCrunch Writer Paul Carr
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 5, 2010
Last week, Jason announced plans to to hire two people - one of them a "top 25 analysts/writers in the tech/business world" - to help to turn his big email list into a paid "forum" venture, where readers could have… Full Story »
