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By: Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages

Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:44:06 +0000

[…] that we owe a certain level of professionalism towards. We’ve also acquired a number of other startups. TechCrunch is a serious thing, and needs to be treated seriously by […]

By: Artvay » Blog Archive » The Webmasters Guide to April Fools 2008

Artvay » Blog Archive » The Webmasters Guide to April Fools 2008 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:37:41 +0000

[…] of the best ever was TechCrunch aquiring FuckedCompany.com and moving startup coverage to another blog. Once again they were […]

By: Transnets » Blog Archive » Enfin: le courriel par la poste

Transnets » Blog Archive » Enfin: le courriel par la poste — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:52:07 +0000

[…] Michael Arrington de TechCrunch (un site spécialisé dans les start-ups prometteuses) vient d’acquérir Fucked Company (un site spécialisé dans celles qui échouent). Les secondes sont beaucoup plus nombreuses que […]

By: Chrissie

Chrissie — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:38:57 +0000

Hey Mike, Looks like the AP isn’t convinced that TechCrunch bought F*cked Co.

April 4: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200....._site_sale

By: Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:42:31 +0000

Nicely done. The only worthwhile web April Fool’s joke I’ve seen this round.

It’s funny but I’d forgotten FuckedCompany.com ever existed!

It’s so tired.

By: Dean @ Sachi

Dean @ Sachi — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:20:46 +0000

Good joke, Mike. As it was called out in #18,20, and 22, we knew this was an April Fool’s joke. Who knew that TC readers were so gullible?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:21:51 +0000

Florian, see update at top of post.

By: Florian Cervenka

Florian Cervenka — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:05:58 +0000

@Mike
is the whole post an april fool joke or just the “They just won’t be able to do it here any more.”

so did you buy FC or not?

By: Sonny

Sonny — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:28:28 +0000

Atleast Google’s attempt was funny, this was just boring.

By: Jay Gould

Jay Gould — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:31:43 +0000

Wow… this one got me good!

By: Malin

Malin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:42:12 +0000

Haha, great april fools joke! I can’t believe that people actually bought it

By: Renata

Renata — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:17:31 +0000

PayPerPost to Acquire TechCrunch:

http://blog.payperpost.com/200.....runch.html

“I am pleased to announce that late last night Mike Arrington and I came to an agreement whereby PayPerPost will acquire TechCrunch and all related “Crunch” properties. I am well aware of the irony of this situation given Mikes comments about PayPerPost in the past. This comes on the heels of TechCrunch’s acquisition of FuckedCompany, which was already in progress and will be part of the deal. Through it all we have been able to come to an agreement whereby Mike will continue to run the Crunch sites but PayPerPost will be able to leverage the site for its advertisers. As a result of this merger, we will soon be launching a new “PayPerCrunch” feature, whereby Advertisers will be able, at our customarily low prices, to leverage the journalistic talents of Mr Arrington and his staff to fully promote our customers products and services. “

By: Tony E

Tony E — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:32:24 +0000

You certainly had a lot of people fooled. Did they not know what day it was?

By: Jesal

Jesal — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:36:49 +0000

Well I HOPE this is an April Fools Joke!

By: jimbob

jimbob — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:29:38 +0000

and now we learn a WHOLE LOT about TC readers wow.

By: zlythern

zlythern — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:41:59 +0000

2007 April Fools Collections…

… And when i get my hands back on the internet, there are a lot of April Fools this year ……

By: george

george — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:41:28 +0000

well played…

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:22:08 +0000

“well for the future - there just isn’t anything left to invent.”

that statement goes hand in hand l with the classic 1890s quote that the Patent Office should be closed because everything’s been invented.

By: Jauhari

Jauhari — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:15:27 +0000

April Fools Joke…. this so funny ^_*

By: Connected Internet

Connected Internet — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:43:48 +0000

How Many Aprils Fools Posts Did You Spot?…

I just spotted the following post on OneTipADay which claims allows you to download music, movies etc from iTunes for free, which was my favourite Aprils Fools joke as I actually fell for it.
Which ones did you spot? Some were pretty obvious like gHa…

By: TC why attack startups?

TC why attack startups? — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:40:27 +0000

april fool!!! Techcrunch did not acquired fuckedcompany.com.

It’s just april fools joke.

By: walkable

walkable — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:15:49 +0000

Did you think that this many readers of your site were so out of touch with reality?

I really hope that these are international readers posting some of these comments, although I know that other countries have similar traditions on April 1.

By: Tranix.net

Tranix.net — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:52:41 +0000

Does the domain affect search engines?

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:28:37 +0000

TechCrunch Gets F*ckedCompany, iTunes Subscription Service, Baseball 007 and Spinn3r …

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