“It’s sleazy, unethical, and crosses all sorts of boundaries. But it’s typical Arrington, obnoxious and outrageous and arrogant and totally offensive in every possible way. He’s still the same old egomaniac. The new site is just me-me-me, wah-wah-look-at-me-because-I’m-such-a-big-spoiled-crybaby, all the time. I can’t even look at it because it makes me sick to my stomach,” […]

Michael Arrington has made it official — with a tweet — that he will soon launch his new personal blog. And now an anxious world awaits the new Arrington mega-blog and prays that TechCrunch can survive without him. (Above: One of the makers of CLOO, a new iPhone app, and fellow startup creators, their heads […]

Business Insider seems to think Facebook is toast, making the case that ZuckLand has “lost its mojo” and that “something stinks.” They mention a bunch of add-ons that haven’t caught fire, and that key people have left. They don’t talk about financials, but by some accounts Facebook’s mid-2011 results, as impressive as they were, actually […]

A while back, when Google announced it was buying Motorola Mobility, I posited a theory that Google had pulled a “rope a dope” on Apple and Microsoft by pretending to compete for a set of Nortel patents. Google, I asserted, must have known all along that it was going to buy Motorola and get its […]

I just giving him a little shit over his iPad piece where he explains all the ways in which he does and does not use his iPad, that’s all. Ease up on the nasty comments, okay? Fromedome is a good pal and a good reporter. His new site, Splatf, is pretty cool, and I admire […]

Big news: Dan Frommer, formerly of Business Insider, has now owned his iPad for exactly 500 days, and he is still using it for various things and believes that it is a useful device that fits into his life in certain ways, and though it is not perfect for everything it is very good at […]

It’s official. Michael Arrington is out at TechCrunch. Erick Schonfeld becomes editor of the site but AOL says in a statement that TC will be “expanding its editorial leadership in the coming months.” Countdown for reporters to start following up on their threats and bailing out begins … now.

That is the headline I’ve been waiting to see. But I got tired of waiting so I figured I would just write it myself. Memo to TC staffers: You sold your startup to a big, stupid corporation. You were very happy to take the money. But the way these things work is that when you […]