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Hulu could still launch on the iPad, or it could not

On a similar note to yesterday’s post, we have another iPad Maybe. The iPad won’t support Adobe’s Flash, which means no Hulu. But wouldn’t it be cool if Hulu made an app?

Sure, why not.

Citing a “rumor [he's] heard from an industry insider,” a TechCrunch blogger says Hulu is working on an “iPad-friendly version of its site that should be ready by the time the iPad hits the market.”

OK, well, we’re almost there. We’ll keep an eye out. Thanks for the tip, TechCrunch and its man who is apparently inside of an industry.

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Guy who ratted out TechCrunch laptop kid outs himself

Can’t read my, can’t read my, no, you can’t read-uh mah TechCrunch stories written by Dan Brusilovksy.

Michael Arrington‘s (in)famed laptop boy is back in the news again thanks to a public, self-inflicted unmasking (prompted by a light anal probe by 1938 Media) of the fellow who tattled on Brusilovsky. Continue reading

TechCrunch’s Arrington calls Brusilovsky’s laptop providers ‘the victims’

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington mounted his high horse again today in a piece called “Why you should confess everything before you get caught.” In it, he calls out InfoWorld’s apology on account of one of its writers who misrepresented his identity.

As laughable as Arrington’s horn tooting was, he goes on to qualify his not disclosing the name of the company that traded former TechCrunch writer (not intern) Daniel Brusilovsky a laptop for press by saying they were “the victims of this whole thing.”

Allow us to get on our horse. Continue reading

Dubbed CrunchGate, 1938 Media asks which company traded laptop for press

TechCrunch fired one of its employees, 17-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky, earlier this month for accepting a MacBook Air from a company in exchange for a blog post. (We incorrectly referred to him, as too did TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington in his post, as an intern. Brusilovsky says he wasn’t.)

We called for TechCrunch to come clean on which company paid for press. Now, Loren Feldman of 1938 Media joins us in the hunt. His method is rather clever. Continue reading

TechCrunch successfully guesses at Google Super Bowl commercial

Google did indeed have a commercial in the Super Bowl. TechCrunch guessed there would be one based on a fairly vague tweet from Google CEO Eric Schmidt., as we noted in our post about the Google Super Bowl commercial. Continue reading

A Crunchy Google Super Bowl rumor

Maybe we should just call this the Is TechCrunch Full of Shit Blog.

In a characteristic jumping to conclusions, MG Siegler somehow lands on the assumption that Google will have a Super Bowl commercial maybe about the Nexus One. Continue reading

Facebook maybe launching e-mail client some time, says ‘source with knowledge’

Less than 24 hours after Michael Arrington‘s TechCrunch had to come clean on laptop bribery to protect his blog’s journalistic integrity, the founder drops a sourceless prediction about the world’s largest social network.

Facebook is planning to launch a “fully featured webmail product” to replace that crappy inbox feature we only use out of pure necessity, Arrington writes. He attributes that eye-catching headline to “a source with knowledge of the product.” Continue reading

TechCrunch fires intern who allegedly solicited laptops for press

Seventeen-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky was publicly humiliated for allegedly cheating on his math test soliciting and accepting expensive gifts in exchange for press on a major online publication.

During his nine-month tenure as TechCrunch intern, Brusilovsky, who Valleywag hailed as the tech boy wonder, supposedly asked for laptops in exchange for writing about certain Web start-ups. (His mea culpa.) Continue reading

A Mac tablet? We’ll see

Less than a week after Apple announced the iPad and nearly two months before anyone not named Steve Jobs or Stephen Colbert can own one, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler breaks out a rumor (clearly tagged as such in the headline) that Apple is “pretty far along on work on a second tablet device,” he wrote. This new TamPod (thanks, Colbert) will supposedly run an operating system closer to Mac OS X than the iPhone.

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