TechCrunch

     TechCrunch is a leading American media publisher of technology industry news; with headquarter in Bay Area, United States.  It was created by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare 12 years ago on 10th June 2005. It covers breaking tech news, reviews of new internet products, analysis of new trends in tech. Industry, and also profiling of new tech startups. The blog posts are researched and written by renowned journalists, for example, Michael Arrington, Alexia Tsotsis, Mike Butcher,

     Matthew Panzarino, Andrew Keen, Chris Dixon, Steve Gillmor and more.
The success of TechCrunch blog was quick. It was started by the Michael Arrington at that time when Web 2.0 was coming to the market and making a noise to the world. The blog became famous within a year with several million page views every month, also drawing the attention of entrepreneurs and VCs.

     It has enormous followers on social media, 8 million on Twitter and more than 2.5 million likes on Facebook page. It gets a considerable amount of traffic each month on its blogs and network of websites, 12 million unique visitors and 37 million page views per month.
   
     CrunchBase, a database created by the TechCrunch on 2007. It operated till 2015 and was an open database about startups, investors, and incubators. Registered members could submit to the database but before accepting it was reviewed and checked by the moderators. It claimed have 2 million users accessing its database per month in 2013.

     It is available in English, Chinese, Japanese and French languages. The TechCrunch Disrupts, an annual conference hosted by it, was started by Arrington by throwing parties at his home in Silicon Valley. In these meetings, startups showcase and launch their products and services for media coverage and publicity.