TechCrunch UK & Ireland is a blog covering Web 2.0 and Mobile start-ups. TechCrunch UK is part of the TechCrunch Network, which includes country-specific blogs for France and Japan.

TechCrunch UK & Ireland is edited by Mike Butcher. A former editor of New Media Age magazine, and The Industry Standard Europe. He has written for UK national newspapers including the The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times and magazines including The New Statesman. He has launched or relanched several media web sites and in 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. He has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg, commenting on technology and new media. His personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters here.

Email: mike [AT] mbites [DOT] com
(this is my preferred method of communication)

Phone: +44 (0) 77 2029 1095

Skype: mikegbutcher

About TechCrunch

TechCrunch, founded by Michael Arrington on 11 June 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to new companies, we profile existing companies that are making a commercial or cultural impact on the new web space.

TechCrunch makes news, and here are a few proud mentions of our own:
Financial Times, December 2006.
Wall Street Journal online and print editions, 7 December 2005.
San Jose Mercury News online and print editions, 15 January 2006.
Business 2.0 magazine online and print editions, September 2006.
Wall Street Journal, 3 November 2006.
San Francisco Chronicle front page story, 6 December 2006.
CBS News

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