The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

An exposé of Internet Marketers.

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, savvy CEO.

On the relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley.

A report from Austin, Texas as it turns into a dot-com hotspot.

He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started.

Dotcom didn’t look like a criminal genius. With his ginger hair, chubby cheeks, and odd fashion sense—he often wore black suits and white-on-black wingtip shoes—he looked like he should be setting up a magic table.

How Kim Schmitz, the proprietor of Megaupload, made his fortune and landed in a New Zealand prison.

How the U.S. government used a serial con who was caught running a mail-order steroid pharmacy in Mexico to prove that Google was knowingly placing ads for illegal drugs.

On YouTube’s shift towards professionally created content.

On the TechCrunch founder’s venture capital fund, and a new breed of startup investor.

As Twitter-loving VC investors have become brand names themselves (Fred Wilson, Marc Andreessen, Chris Sacca), what one might call the auteur theory of venture capitalism has emerged—the idea that startup companies bear the unique creative signature of those who invested in them. To study a venture capitalist’s portfolio is to study his oeuvre.

Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon.

In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.