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Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily — $2M+ in Funding and Guess Who’s Working for Her? (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on January 16 at 9:00 am PT

Here’s the brave woman who will be the new boss of Michael Arrington, M.G. Siegler and Paul Carr. (You read that right.)

Viral Audio: A Look Back at Tech in 2011, and Forward to 2012

Kara Swisher in Media on December 28, 2011 at 1:06 am PT

Should auld iPhone 5 be forgot and never brought to market …

Tech Blogger Starts a Company Around His Data Mining (a.k.a. Web Stalking) Skills

Liz Gannes in Social on November 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT

Longtime tech blogger (if there is such a thing!) Marshall Kirkpatrick is starting a data mining company devoted to discovering emerging information.

Exclusive: AOL’s Tim Armstrong Says He Doesn’t Want a Yahoo Deal (Video)

Peter Kafka in Media on November 2, 2011 at 8:11 am PT

Meanwhile, his AOL turnaround is still a turnaround.

AOL Beats Estimates, Posts Another Ad Sales Increase. But About Those Domestic Numbers …

Peter Kafka in Media on November 2, 2011 at 4:05 am PT

An 8 percent sales bump for Tim Armstrong. Enough?

On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm PT

Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.

Vladimir Putin’s Apprentices (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on September 26, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

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Here He Is

Kara Swisher in Media on September 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm PT

We’ll admit, it’s clever, even if he can’t quite let go. Even the chest shot, but only because it says “Unpaid Blogger.” In other words, tech’s bad boy Michael Arrington has a new blogging home on a site called Uncrunched, after leaving AOL and the tech news blog he founded, TechCrunch, amid controversy. His first post is only three words, all in the title: “Here I Am.” Indeed.

Please Ignore the TrollCrunch (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on September 19, 2011 at 12:01 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.