TechCrunch Gets an Ominous AOL Tip

Tim Armstrong is about to disrupt the Brands group

Rumors of corporate downsizing are never fun. However, the way in which TechCrunch was put on to the trail of alleged plans in that department involving its parent, AOL, is. From an item by London-based TechCrunch writer Ingrid Lunden:

To be clear: while TechCrunch is part of AOL, we on the editorial side are not privy to what happens at a corporate level. We received this info by way of an anonymous tip (as many of our stories begin), and then started to ask around.

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