I am not surprised. In fact, I expected Harde to join MG and Carr sooner. Heather Harde was always strictly in the Arrington club. She seemed share a great rapport with him, and both respected and valued each other. TC is big enough to survive through AOL's mismanagement, but in the long run Ariana is going to bring it down.

TechCrunch should be gone within a year - or just ignored by everyone. People are already leaving Huffpost for their yellow journalism.