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Michael Arrington china wholesale party supplies market ended a more-than-weeklong drama over his position at AOL Inc. by leaving the TechCrunch blog he founded, solvin one problem for the struggling Internet giant but creating a yiwu dresses new challenge at one of the few bright spots in its business.The move clears the way for Mr. Arrington to devote himself to a new venture-capital yiwu agent fund he launched this month, which had raised questions about whether he could continue to work for the technology blog while investing in the sector. But it also puts pressure on AOL to maintain TechCrunch's traffic and business without its founder at a time when the site is one of its few content properties showing robust growth. Mr. Arrington, who founded the technology blog in 2005 and sold it to AOL for $30 million last September, said at a TechCrunch conference in San Francisco: "it is no longer a good situation for me to stay," calling it "a sad day." AOL Yiwu skirts said in a statement it would continue to invest in his fund. AOL named longtime TechCrunch staffer Erick Schonfeld editor of the Silicon Valley-based site. Mr. Schonfeld, who joined TechCrunch in 2007 and is based in New York, most recently worked as the site's co-editor, overseeing editorial content and helping program conferences. For AOL, maintaining momentum at TechCrunch and the other websites yiwu costumes it has acquired is crucial dollar item as the company attempts to revive its fortunes by building an ad-supported digital-media business to make up for revenue declines in its Internet access business. In the second quarter, AOL's promotional items revenues fell 8.4% from the year earlier to $542.2 million.AOL doesn't specifically break out revenue for TechCrunch or other websites, but the company said it was yiwu market able to increase display-advertising revenue in the most recent quarter in part because Yiwu sleepwear of its acquisitions of the Huffington Post and TechCrunch. While traffic to all AOL sites increased 2% in August from the same period last year to 109.2 million wholesale lots unique U.S. visitors, visitors to TechCrunch increased 81% to 4.8 million in August, according to comScore Inc.The track record for a blog's success after yiwu hosiery the founder leaves is spotty. "In many cases, the blog is so irrevocably rooted to that one personality that it can't sustain a transplant. But TechCrunch is pretty deep, I do think cheap wholesale shoes that they have a decent chance of making it work," said Craig Atkinson, chief digital officer at Omnicom Group Inc.'s ad-buying firm, PHD.Already, at least one TechCrunch employee said he would leave following Mr. Arrington's departure, raising questions about Yiwu sportswear whether others will follow Mr. Arrington out.
