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by mmcgrana 6194 days ago
"... The rest of the sentence, that they [TechCrunch] published an hour early, an hour before they were supposed to, an hour before the embargo lifted and we were going to launch the site doesn’t need to be said..."

TechCrunch has a public policy of not honoring embargos:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/death-to-the-embargo/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/survey-says-pr-people-l...

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Yep, we knew that... but they had told us specifically that they would honor it. No matter, it all worked out :)