Wasn’t it just other day that Michael Arrington was whining about how unfair and mean people were to him? And yet that didn’t stop Erick Schonfeld from running a long story on TechCrunch about a completely baseless rumor that Last.Fm was sharing user data with the RIAA in order to track ...

TechCrunch is feeling the heat from Erick Schonfeld’s story on Last.fm handing over data to the RIAA. Which got a pretty harsh denial, and to TechCrunch’s defense, they did update the post with more and more information. Most people are pissed, however, and rightly so. The story was fals...

Doom and gloom reports return to all the major tech blogs - this time the crisis hits the Venture Capital Industry - starting with TheFunded.com’s editor Adeo Ressi, and his presentation to the Finance and entrepreneurship faculty at Harvard Business School titled “the canary is dead - s...

On May 12, 2008, TechCrunch incorrectly reported our death. The report was written by Erick Schonfeld. For those who think Erick got the story right please read this letter from our counsel: scan001(2) - Upload a Document to Scribd The letter is dated Oct 8, 2008. It has been almost 5 months since w...

In only 5 days The Next Web Conference 2008 will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We will post short daily updates about speakers, initiatives and events here. Erick Schonfeld Formerly editor-at-large at Business 2.0 and currently Co-editor Techcrunch.com. We proudly present you the Next Web C...