Welcome back to TechCrunch UK & Ireland
by Mike Butcher
on September 7, 2007

Well, we’re cranking up the blogging engine here again. My name is Mike Butcher and some readers may know me from a while back when I helped launch this site for the first time late last year. I’m delighted to say that – following a hiatus – TechCrunch has decided to show its firm commitment to this market by re-launching here and, for my part, it’s great to be editing the site.

I won’t start off with any grandiose statements of intent. Merely to say that this site will do its utmost, without fear or favour, to cover the new wave of Internet and mobile technology companies currently bubbling through on this side of the planet.

Right now this site carries both a UK and Irish flag. With many friends, colleagues and contacts in Ireland I am embarrassed that, for the moment, we have no dedicated Irish site. But I hope that at some point, with the proper editorial resources, this can be remedied at some point.

For now I hope to bring you the kind of coverage that will help unite rather than the divide the Internet scene this side of the Atlantic. We begin in earnest on Monday, but for now check out the coverage of Seedcamp.

To contact me:

Email: mike [at] mbites dot com
Mobile: +44 77 2029 1095
Skype: mikegbutcher
More info: http://mbites.com/contact

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  • http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/techcrunch-uk-relaunches-with-one-hell-of-a-party/ TechCrunch UK Relaunches With One Hell Of A Party

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  • http://www.nigelcooke.com monkeyleader

    Excellent – so good to see TCUK back running again – you guys have been missed *rushes over to add TCUK to google reader*

    Good job !

    Nige

  • http://jasonlog.supersized.org/ Jason Vu

    Congrats, keep good posting.

  • http://www.accmanpro.com Dennis Howlett

    Congratulations Mike – the right move I’m sure.

  • http://www.businessitonline.com David Cruickshank

    Many congratulations Mike and best of luck. I thought last night’s event was a great success.

  • http://www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk Vero Pepperrell

    Great news, pleased to have TechCrunch UK back. Good luck and congrats on taking up the challenge, Mike!

  • http://imran.ali.name Imran Ali

    So when do I get my TCUK profile page back? ;)

  • http://mulley.net Damien Mulley

    Congrats Mike, we kinda met at Nokia Go Play via Ewan Spence. Best of luck with the new/old job with TechCrunch UK. Look forward to new stuff on Ireland too!

  • http://crossthebreeze.com Kris Hoet

    Congrats Mike! Good to see you back on TCUK!

  • http://www.momac.net Stuart Day

    Its Back! Congrats Mike, looking forward to all the new reviews.

  • http://twitter.com/mikebutcher Mike Butcher

    Thanks people :-)

  • http://www.welovelocal.com Max Jennings

    Congrats, great to have you back. Best of luck.

  • http://www.greenblog.com Ian Green

    Welcome back Mike – are you planning any events up North?

  • http://crueltobekind.org Nicole Simon

    Looking forward to more reports from that little island over there. ;)

  • http://mark.dreamtime.org/blog/ Mark Beveridge

    Good to have you back, finally!

  • http://www.spongeproject.co.uk Rob Mason

    Good work Mike. Welcome back.

  • http://www.alexbarnett.net/blog Alex Barnett

    nice one!

  • Tom

    doea this mean “Bites Media” is dead? Would be a shame as had potential.

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  • http://www.mbites.com Mike Butcher

    In case you forgot http://www.mbites.com/an-open-letter-to-mike-arrington the rest of us haven’t. Or will you delete this comment?

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  • http://www.collaboratemarketing.com James Cherkoff

    Well done sir, MA is lucky to have you….

  • http://blogfriends.i-together.com Jof Arnold

    Great to have finally met you (at Imperial) after what seems like a million Open Coffees where I never quite got over to that side of the room ;)

  • Me

    Hello Mike,

    I’m glad to see you and MA came to an arrangement.
    Everybody makes mistakes
    I hope you will keep with your remarkable deontology
    You surely did see that LLM had moved away from France. Maybe immanent justice somewhere ?

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  • Eoin

    I think it’s not fair to try to brand this site as half Irish. This website, including the title, URL and the right-side bar refer to the site as TechCrunch UK. If you have no editorial for Irish readers, please change your branding. And yes, I will continue to read here.

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  • http://fr.techcrunch.com ouriel

    glad to see you back mike
    was great to catch up in London

    Ouriel – TechCrunch France

  • http://www.manojranaweera.com Manoj Ranaweera

    Did not know TC UK was up. Thanks Mike for getting in touch. Will keep you up to date with what’s happening in the North. Best regards Manoj

    PS: http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk tonight
    Mashup Manchester – 18th Nov
    OpenCoffee Manchester – 25th Sep

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