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Sarah Lacy, a book author and a veteran journalist (and most recently with TechCrunch) is launching PandoDaily, a daily technology news blog focused on startups and the startup ecosystem. The company is being funded by a $2.5 million investment from Silicon Valley elite. Read More »

The second batch of 250 tickets to the Crunchies, the annual tech awards show hosted by GigaOM, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, are going on sale right now. The Crunchies awards show will be held January 31, 2012, in San Francisco. Read More »

 
 

Hard to believe, but we’re already gearing up for the Crunchies, which will be held January 31, 2012, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Once again, GigaOM is co-hosting the annual event, which celebrates innovation and new technology, along with TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Read More »

Former AdMob Omar Hamoui’s Churn Labs, his first venture after selling mobile ad company to Google for $750 million, was one of the early highlights for TechCrunch Disrupt’s Start-up Battlefield, a showcase for dozens of emerging start-ups. Here is Hamoui’s startup, plus three more. Read More »

As I looked back over the past five years, there were some seminal moments that helped shape Michael Arrington’s — and thus TechCrunch’s — destiny. We created this infographic, which is the story of TechCrunch. Read More »

AOL said it has purchased the technology blogging site TechCrunch for an undisclosed amount, a story Om broke last night. While we don’t know yet how much AOL paid for the blog network founded by Michael Arrington, we’ll update this story as details emerge. Read More »

AOL, the New York-based company is on the verge of acquiring TechCrunch, the online blogging network started by former attorney, Michael Arrington. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is likely to make an appearance at Disrupt, and that is when the deal is likely to be announced. Read More »

More Crunchies Tickets on Sale Today

The second batch of tickets for the third annual Crunchies awards ceremony — to be held on Jan. 8 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco — goes on sale today, starting at noon PST. You can still vote for finalist tech people, products and companies. Read More »

Crunchies Tickets Go on Sale Today

The first batch of 150 tickets for the third annual Crunchies awards ceremony — scheduled to be held on Jan. 8, 2010, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco — go on sale today starting at noon PST. 450 tickets will be released to the public. Read More »

The third annual Crunchies awards ceremony, scheduled to be held on Jan. 8, 2010, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, is approaching. As of now, you can vote for the finalists. Here’s how. Read More »

Networking: How to Work a Twitter Party

Networking has always been a high art in business. Just ask Susan Roane, my mentor and author of the seminal tome, “How to Work a Room.” (I know a handful of VCs and startup kings on Sand Hill Road who have her book… Read More »

Xobni: Our Path from 'Wrong Product' to Killer App

Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday. I run product development at Xobni, maker of… Read More »

More Must Reads

Widgets are taking social media by storm and becoming a valuable online marketing platform for interaction with consumers. Last June, comScore estimated that widgets reach 177 million people every month, or 21 percent of the worldwide online audience. ComScore’s tracking methods are debated (see also… Read More »

Question of the Day: Do social networks exploit their user-content generators? I don’t know if you saw Billy Bragg’s Op-Ed yesterday, The Royalty Scam, but it’s worth reading as a criticism of social media business models that leverage the intellectual and artistic capital… Read More »

Our weekly roundup of posts you might have missed, but shouldn’t. 1) The 1st and 2nd Gospels of Sequoia Capital. We posted on these last week, following a nod form TechCrunch (thank you). Gospel 1: Elements of Sustainable Companies. Gospel 2: Writing A Business Plan.Read More »

Question of the Day: Can your business mission be summarized on the back of a business card? If not, then I want to make sure you all see this: Sequoia’s Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever. In it, Mike has republished Sequoia Capital‘s 1st… Read More »

March Madness typically refers to NCAA college basketball, but this month’s craziness ranges from stock market-madness to presidential primary-madness, more prez -primary-madness to movie-madness (Ferrell!), and finally, to Spitzer’s hooker-madness. But founders have more important things on their minds — like… Read More »

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