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The Crunch Network
CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. Read more
CrunchGear is a blog covering gadgets, gear and computer hardware, run by Editor-in-Chief John Biggs. Its a daily journal of all things gadget-tastic. Every day we bring a digest of the hottest tech stories and intelligent and informed commentary on the industry as a whole. Read more
MobileCrunch obsessively covers the mobile industry. Look for mobile news and reviews on the latest in the mobile communications space. It is edited by Greg Kumparak. Read more
Run by Editor-in-Chief Steve Gillmor, TechCrunchIT is dedicated to obsessively profiling products and companies in the Enterprise Technology space. TCIT aims to promote an understanding of emerging and existing Enterprise technologies and to analyze their commercial, social, and consumer impacts. Read more
TechCrunch Europe is a blog covering Web 2.0 and Mobile start-ups in Europe, and is run by Editor-in-Chief Mike Butcher. TechCrunch Europe also periodically holds TechCrunchTalk, industry roundtables covering the web industry. In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was named the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine. Read more
TechCrunch Francais a ouvert en février 2006 et est devenu très vite l’un des blogs les plus populaires du paysage francophone. Il est souvent cité comme source d’information dans la blogosphère mais aussi dans les médias traditionnels. Read more
TechCrunch Japan obsessively covers the web industry in Japan. Look for company profiles and breaking news. Read more
Industry experts and thought leaders mix it up in The Gillmor Gangs’ daily conversation on what’s hot in tech and social media. Read more
On Elevator Pitches, Founders and CEOs get a chance to pitch their startups directly to you, the TechCrunch audience. Vote the best pitches up and the stinkers down, and tell them exactly what you think of their businesses in the comments. Read moreThe TechCrunch Team
Heather Harde — CEO
Prior to Fox Interactive Media, I held a variety of posts at News America Marketing, TVGuide and ASkyB. Before News Corporation, I also worked for Viacom at Showtime Networks. The common theme in my media life has been working on assignments that focus on the impact of technology on media. This theme continues, of course, with TechCrunch. I started out doing investment banking for a small, private bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (hence my love for my HP12C). I had the opportunity to work both in New York and Tokyo on corporate advisory and private-equity transactions.
Michael Arrington — Founder & Co-Editor
A few people have asked me to post a little more information about myself. Instead of the standard corporate picture, I’ve included a picture of me and my dad at game four of the Giants/Angels World Series a few years ago. I like this picture, and it reminds me that every once in a while I need to get away from my computer and live real life. If you want to see my corporate bio, check out my LinkedIn profile. You can also check out my Flickr pictures (includes both business and personal pictures).
Erick Schonfeld — Co-Editor
Erick has been covering startups and technology news for 14 years. At Business 2.0 he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, Next Net, which has nearly 50,000 RSS subscribers. He also does a lot of video work and hosts regular panels of industry luminaries called Disruptor Round Tables. Prior to Business 2.0, Erick was an editor-at-large for eCompany and a contributing editor for Fortune. In 1999, Schonfeld won the prize for best information technology submission at London’s Business Journalist of the Year Awards.
Jason Kincaid — Writer
Jason grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to Los Angeles, where he studied biology and the social implications of advancements in genetics at UCLA. Jason now writes for TechCrunch in Palo Alto, CA.
Leena Rao — Writer
Leena Rao is a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003.
MG Siegler — Writer
MG Siegler is a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, he’s covered the field for VentureBeat and his own blog, ParisLemon.
Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan where he studied film. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in San Diego where he worked in web development. He now lives in San Francisco.
Robin Wauters — Writer
Robin Wauters is an entrepreneur, blogger, conference organizer, social media consultant, startup advisor and allround web addict, based in Belgium, Europe. Robin is a writer at TechCrunch and managing editor of Virtualization.com. He was one of the first writers to join blognation, an ambitious effort to centralize reports about Web 2.0 startups from around the world into one blog platform. He is mostly known for Plugg, a one-day conference in Brussels aimed to raise awareness for European entrepreneurship as well as the continent’s most promising Web / Mobile 2.0 startups. He’s also the organizer of the monthly OpenCoffee Club Brussels meetups.
Andy Brett — Engineer
Andy Brett is a software engineer currently focused on Ruby on Rails and related technologies. Prior to joining TechCrunch he worked for RecycleBank in New York City’s historic Greenwich Village. Andy also enjoys writing and backpacking and is an avid adventure racer.
Gené McPherson — CrunchBase Project Manager
Gené is the Project Manager of CrunchBase. Prior to that she was a Director of Marketing and Key Partnerships at RealNames, the company that provide natural language navigation in the browser bar. She began her early Internet career in the 90s by co-founding Cyberia the original CyberCafé in London with Eva Pascoe.
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John Biggs — Editor
John Biggs is a New York-based author and consultant. John has published work in The New York Times, Laptop, Men’s Health, Linux Journal, Popular Science and others. John is also the author of Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age. Visit his website here.
Doug Aamoth — Reviews Editor
Doug Aamoth is a freelance web developer, mediocre comedic actor, tech blogger, lover, and friend. Aamoth has worked for retail giants Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, online news company Internet Broadcasting, and has directed magazine, independent film, IT, web design, and video production startups. He lives in Boston and refuses to grow up.
Nicholas Deleon — Writer
Bloggings’ siren song seduced Nicholas when he was just a boy. Now a man (or, more accurately, a junior at NYU), he professionally writes about all sorts of important stuff, from cellphones to cellphone accessories. After he graduates he plans to wander around the Third World in search of “meaning” or something else of substance. When he’s not blogging about gadgets he’s either watching European soccer (Sevilla!) or complaining about things he has no control over. You can find him on Facebook, or, failing that, John’s house.
Serkan Toto — Writer
Serkan Toto is the first and only Asia-based writer for the TechCrunch network, mainly covering Japan-related technology and web companies for TechCrunch, CrunchGear and MobileCrunch.
Serkan holds a PhD in economics. He is a German of Turkish descent and lives in Tokyo.
Follow him on Twitter here.
Devin Coldewey — Evening Editor
Devin Coldewey is a longtime tech enthusiast and photographer turned freelance blogger. He has written for CrunchGear and TechCrunch since November of 2007. Devin primarily covers consumer electronics, but his undergrad studies in Neuroscience at UCLA have led him to cover cybernetics, medical technology, and other scientific research.
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Bryce Durbin is an illustrator and designer for print and web. He holds an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Toledo in Toledo, OH. He is the former co-editor of the weekly newspaper The Clayton County Register. Bryce grew up in Columbus, OH and now lives in Elkader, Iowa with his wife Shannon. They are expecting their first child in July of 2009. His portfolio is at brycedurbin.com.
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Greg Kumparak — Editor
Greg is a self-proclaimed tech renaissance man. Primarily a tech writer and industry consultant, Greg also co-founded Blank Software, a mobile application development team, in July of 2009. When he’s not writing about phones, he’s tearing them apart. Greg was born and raised in the heart of the Silicon Valley before moving to California’s central coast.
You can should follow Greg on Twitter here.
Jeremy Kessel — Writer
Jeremy Kessel is an aspiring technology lawyer, writer, and all-around Web advocate from the Washington, DC metro area. After graduating from the University of Colorado @ Boulder with a B.A. in History, Jeremy continued his journey westward to Northern California where, among other things, he has done contract work for Google, interned in Yahoo!’s legal department, and recently completed his J.D. @ Santa Clara University School of Law. When he’s not writing for MobileCrunch, Jeremy can often be found working on his photography, providing gratuitous tech support to friends and family, and enjoying life in San Francisco.
Gagan Biyani — Writer
Gagan Biyani is a tech enthusiast focused on covering mobile software startups on MobileCrunch. Besides obsessing over where the tech industry is going and playing with apps on his iPhone, he is a co-founder of an online learning startup based in Palo Alto, CA. Prior to the startup, he was a management strategy consultant for Accenture. He obtained a degree in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. While at Cal, he worked as a product manager intern at Microsoft. Born and raised in the Valley, he loves the business side of the industry and spends hours debating and discussing the intricacies of the tech world. In his free time, he screams at his TV rooting on his two favorite football teams, the San Francisco 49ers and the Cal Golden Bears.
You can follow Gagan on Twitter here.
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Steve Gillmor — TechCrunchIT, Editor,Gillmor Gang, Editor
Steve Gillmor is a technology commentator, editor, and producer in the enterprise technology space As personal computers emerged in video and music production tools, Gillmor started contributing to various publications, most notably Byte Magazine, where he was a lead reviewer of development and collaborative platform systems. Gillmor joined InfoWorld Magazine as Test Center Director and back-page columnist. He also served as Editor of eWEEK.com’s Messaging & Collaboration Center and OpEd columnist of eWeek’s print publication. As blogging emerged, he wrote the first blogs for Ziff Davis Media, CMP’s CRN, and CNet’s ZDNet, where he remains a contributing editor.
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Mike Butcher — Editor
Mike Butcher is a former editor of New Media Age magazine and the European edition of The Industry Standard. In 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club. He is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. Mike’s personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.
