Josh Quittner

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Joshua Quittner is an American journalist. He is currently editor of Business 2.0, which he joined in April 2002 after seven years at Time Inc. where he served as technology editor for Time Magazine and its technology supplement Time Digital (later called ON Magazine).

While a newspaper reporter at Newsday in the early 1990s, Quittner freelanced for Wired Magazine and was the original domain-name holder of mcdonalds.com, which he registered for an early Wired piece on domain-name squatting.

He was also twice editor of time.com. He joined Time in 1995 as a staff writer covering the Internet but subsequently went to work for Pathfinder, Time Inc.'s first independent online presence, where he launched the Netly News, one of the Net's first daily news feeds.

He is the co-author with wife Michelle Slatalla of five books, including the non-fiction Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace (Harper-Collins, 1995).

He currently lives in Mill Valley, CA with his wife and three children--Zoe, Ella, and Clementine.