WITN: Nigeria Gets A Lot Of Attention – Just For All The Wrong Reasons [TCTV]
If you've been reading TechCrunch regularly for the last week, you've learned the good, the bad and the utterly unique about Nigeria's tech and media scenes.
But is Africa's largest market prime for foreign venture capital investment, and how does it stack up to other frontier emerging markets Sarah has been visiting? Just...
WITN: Paul’s New Book Published, Movie Option Sold On The Same Day [TCTV]
There are two things we love to do on Why Is This News. The first is to break news about things that are happening outside Silicon Valley. The second is to find excuses to promote our respective books (about things that are happening outside Silicon...WITN: Can Tony Hsieh Deliver Happiness -And A Ready-Made Community – To Downtown Las Vegas? [TCTV]
After a brief hiatus, Why Is This News? is back! In this week's episode, Paul checks in from his Las Vegas hotel room to discuss Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's plans to regenerate downtown Las Vegas by moving the company's HQ into the former City Hall.
In fact, there's...WITN: Abbasso Las Vegas! [TCTV]
As regular readers might already know, Paul is in Las Vegas for a month, WITN: Jakarta? No, She Came Back Of Her Own Accord [TCTV]
Hurrah! After a short hiatus while Sarah travelled around Indonesia at the behest of the State Department, Why Is This News is back!
And what better way to mark our triumphant return to your screens than with a whole show dedicated to Indonesia, and specifically the curious...WITN: New York State of the Tech Industry [TCTV]
This week, Sarah is in New York doing various book-related things - but WITN is all about life outside the valley so she dialled in via Skype to give us an update in what's happening on the East coast.
Spoiler alert: NY is still no Silicon Valley, but...WITN: Is It Racist To Say That Chinese Manufacturing Leads To Low Quality Goods — And Fraud? [TCTV]
Earlier this week, CrunchGear's John Biggs sparked controversy (within TechCrunch ranks at least) with a post entitled "Alibaba And The Curse Of Chinese Manufacturing". In the post Biggs wrote (amongst other things) that...
"Many decry the sad state of American manufacturing but these [Chinese] companies still sell...
WITN: Is Justin Bieber Why Lady Gaga Is Pantsless In Paris? [TCTV]
Since AOL's acquisition of the Huffington Post, we know many of you have been looking for signs that TechCrunch has adopted our new editorial overlady's approach to SEO. This seems like as good a time as any to assure loyal Why Is This News? viewers that...WITN: Is Egypt A Twitter Revolution? No. But Is That Even The Point? [TCTV]
After weeks of simmering tensions, finally the Egyptian situation has erupted into violence. Even the media has been caught up in vicious battles.
No, we're not talking about Anderson Cooper being punched in the face, but rather this week's episode of Why Is This News in which our...WITN: No, New York Media, It Isn’t 1999 All Over Again (Thanks For Asking)
In this week's Why Is This News, we discuss the latest Silicon Valley bubble. Or specifically, we discuss why there isn't one - and why New York media has to stop claiming there is every time a company has a high valuation. Yeah, Business Week's Chris...Weekend at Myspace: And Other Upcoming Silicon Valley Movies
Whether the audience agreed or not, our favorite part (of ours) of the Crunchies was the movie posters bit.
Inspired by the success of the Social Network, we'd brainstormed a few ideas for Silicon Valley themed movies of our own, complete with promotional posters to help...Buuteeq Launches, Wows Resident Hotel Snobs
Let's get this out of the way right up front: The name buuteeq is just awful. And if this were a consumer Internet startup, it might be fatally awful. "OK, it's called Boutique, you know like Boutique hotels? Only you spell it B U U T...