"Techcrunch is full of shit" would be right.
"Companies are singular".
Which indeed they are, although staffed by multiple individuals.
The idea of a "corporate person" is much more recent, like 1880's, and I think started in the US.
From wikipedia:
In the late seventeenth century, Stewart Kyd, the author of the first treatise on corporate law in English, defined a corporation as,
"a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by policy of the law, with the capacity of acting, in several respects, as an individual, particularly of taking and granting property..."
And don't be facetious, everyone knows the Dutch were very innovative during the slave trade.
TechCrunch = a corporation A corporation = a legal person Singular, not plural!
Probably because his comment isn't interesting, isn't relevant, and doesn't contribute to discussion. There are all kinds of true but uninteresting comments one can make, but making them shouldn't be encouraged.
Edit: I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but actively discouraging uninteresting comments is what keeps the signal:noise ratio high here.
Your pants must be very soiled. Did you know that the wider public reads tabloids as well? Did you know that they read gossip rags? CLEAN UP IN AISLE GSTAR!
Techcrunch has been on the inflection point of "mattering" to the wider public, which scares the life out of me!