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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Orange, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the maintainer of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley and wider United States technology start-up community.

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Backstage Footage With Twitter COO Dick Costolo

We had a great interview with Twitter COO Dick Costolo at the Real-Time CrunchUp on Friday. Costolo always gives the audience a few good nuggets of news and handles the more difficult questions with ease. He’s a pro. After the conference I reviewed ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  TechCrunch,  Feedburner,  Google Inc.

Bloosky Acquires Tracking202

Most TechCrunch readers have never heard of Tracking202. But affiliate advertisers love the service, which manages advertising campaigns on Facebook, MySpace and other platforms. In fact, Tracking202 was at the center of the Facebook click-fraud issue ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  TechCrunch

TechCrunch Interviews (The Very Happy) Skype CEO Josh Silverman

All he has to do now is manage board meetings with two of the more forceful personalities on the planet – new investor Marc Andreessen and cofounder/new investor Niklas Zennstrom. Well, that and keep this train on the tracks. Skype has exploded to over ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skype,  TechCrunch,  Marc Andreessen,  Niklas Zennstrom,  Facebook Inc.

Google To Shut Down GrandCentral Website

So a little housekeeping is in order. And the first item on the checklist is to shut down the GrandCentral website on December 31, 2009. Users were upgraded to Google Voice earlier this year, but old GrandCentral messages are still on the old site. So ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  21 Nov 2009

Getting To The SuperTweet: Speedi.ly Classifies The Real Time Web

What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you the language of the content, ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Scobleizer,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Digg

CrunchUp Starts Off With A Bang Tomorrow With Twitter COO Dick Costolo

Tomorrow’s Real Time CrunchUp in San Francisco is going to be a blast. It’s an all day event absolutely filled with the thought and business leaders in the space, as well as a whole slew of newcomers launching new startups. And we’re starting off with ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Steve Gillmor

Yammer Continues To Push Features I Want On Twitter

Yammer, a twitter-like service for closed groups, continues to add new features that I wish Twitter would implement as well. In the last day or so they added a simple notification for unread messages that syncs across the many ways users can access the ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

TweetPhoto CEO Says Too Much In Interview, Gets Fired. And That’s Just The Beginning…

This story just screams amateur hour, although I can’t figure out exactly who’s the amateur. Maybe everyone. A CEO says too much in an interview and gets fired. Lawyers go after the blogger to get content removed. And a partner is pissed off. Not bad ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  18 Nov 2009

MySpace Signs Agreement To Acquire iMeem

On Monday we broke the news that MySpace was in late stage negotiations to acquire music service iMeem. Those negotiations are now concluded, we’ve heard from multiple sources, and an agreement has been signed. MySpace will acquire most of the assets ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, TechCrunch,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: iMeem,  Facebook Inc.

The Google Phone May Be Data Only, VoIP Driven Device

Lots of people are saying there’s no way Google will enter the phone market directly and compete with all these handset manufacturers who have bet on Android. Daring Fireball, PC World and IntoMobile are among the doubters. And a lot of people are ...

From MICHAEL ARRINGTON, MobileCrunch,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  PC World

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