This piece of information was received from our anonymous tip line a few days ago, we tried to confirm it through several sources but nobody wished to comment on or off the record, so this is unconfirmed, and received from an anonymous reader who claims to have a personal connection to Oliver Starr through a third party. We weren’t able to reach Oliver for comment.

We aren’t playing journalist, but we are trying to provide honest information. We considered ignoring this tip, but after some research, re-reading this post about TechCrunch UK, and after reading Michael’s angry rants in the Obama article of a few days ago, it started to seem a little more believable and we decided to go ahead, with this disclaimer.

We don’t have many details, but Oliver Starr’s resignation from MobileCrunch was quite sudden and surprising, and was due to a personality clash with Michael Arrington. If you have any details regarding a specific event, you know how to get in touch with us.

Follow up: I have no reason to believe the post below is not actually from Oliver, so we will retract this post. I will however defend our position by pointing out that we accept anonymous tips for a reason - many people in this community are afraid of Michael Arrington, and would never want to see their name associated with anything that opposes him. We sat on the information for days trying to get some confirmation, and decided to go ahead with a post that was more soliciting confirmations than anything else. Also, we operate a website, not a newspaper, and after re-reading our post it seems the only thing we got dead wrong was the “quit” aspect of the story. You admit he is difficult and everyone was surprised by the news, so the circumstancial evidence was strong, we felt it was our duty to follow up. Thank you for your comment.