CrunchWeek: Google Makes A Deal With The FTC, The Hot/Cold Apple And Waze Deal, 2013′s M&A Surge

Colleen Taylor

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch and TechCrunch TV. Previously she worked as a reporter for GigaOM, the Financial Times’ Mergermarket newswire, and the semiconductor industry newsletter Electronic News. Disclosure: Colleen holds a small amount of shares in AOL, which were awarded as part of her employment contract with TechCrunch. She personally... → Learn More

Sunday, January 6th, 2013


2013 certainly started off with a bang in terms of tech business news, so we had a lot to talk about for CrunchWeek, that very special 10 minutes or so wherein a few of us writers gather ’round the TechCrunch TV studio and dish on the most compelling stories of the past seven days.

In this edition, Ms. Leena Rao, Mr. Drew Olanoff, and I dig into the FTC’s highly-anticipated settlement of its Google antitrust probe, the back-and-forth on Apple’s reported interest in buying geolocation startup Waze, and the big M&A stories that kicked off the new year — Avis’ $500 million acquisition of ZipCar and Al Jazeera’s $500 million purchase of Current TV.