TechCrunch

TechCrunch was founded by Michael Arrington (engl. Michael Arrington) in 2005. The first post on the blog appeared on June 11, 2005. As of July 12, 2010 TechCrunch takes the 4th place in the rating of 100 best blogs of Technorati.

TechCrunch Network

By TechCrunch it is connected and closely cooperates with several other websites which integrate in TechCrunch of the Network. Now enter into TechCrunch of the Network:

• CrunchBase (crunchbase.com) is the on-line database of the companies, people and investors which is executed in style of the Wiki. Anyone can edit the CrunchBase database. Before article written by the user of the website gets to a public access, it undergoes process of reconciliation and correcting. For October, 2009 on CrunchBase more than 27,000 profiles of the companies, more than 40,000 profiles of people, more than 3,000 profiles of financial institutions are located, more than 8,000 cycles of financing, etc. are described.

• CrunchGear (crunchgear.com) is the blog devoted to gadgets, mechanisms and the hardware of computers. A managing director is John Biggs (engl. John Biggs). Except him, six other employees participate in CrunchGear.

• MobileCrunch is the blog which main subject is the industry of mobile computers and devices. The Chief Editor — Greg Kamparak (engl. Greg Kumparak).

• TechCrunch IT

• TechCrunch Europe — initially represented the separate blog under the name of TechCrunch of UK which was focused on the European and aimed at the European market Web 2.0 services. However on December 13, 2006 this blog was stopped, Michael Arrington, the Chief Editor of TechCrunch of UK Sam of Network (engl. Sam Sethi) and Loic Le Mior participated in an incident. [5] In September, 2007 the blog was restarted with the new name — TechCrunch Europe, and the new Chief Editor Mike Batcher (engl. Mike Butcher).

• TechCrunch France — contains both original content, and the translated materials from the main blog. TechCrunch France the founded Oriel Ohayon (engl. Ouriel Ohayon) in February, 2006 which was on a post of the Chief Editor till 2009.

• TechCrunch Japan — contains both original content, and the translated materials from the main blog.

• Gillmor Gang (engl.) is a podcast about information technologies which is conducted by Steve Gilmore (engl. Steve Gillmor), the former employee of ZDNet.

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The TechCrunch company held the TechCrunch50 conference (engl.) which took place from September 8 to September 10, 2008 in California.

TechCrunch directs awards of The Europas which award to the best technology companies and startups on the Internet and mobile stage in Europe.

TechCrunch is one of founders of an award of The Crunchies.

Criticism

TechCrunch faces high extent of public control, and the staff of TechCrunch was periodically accused of different conflicts of interest. One of such examples is Oliver Starr (engl. Oliver Starr), the original editor of MobileCrunch. Starr was possibly dismissed by Arrington, allegedly in connection with a conflict of interest which arose because of Starr who was the senior mobile analyst for The Guidewire Group.