He has taken it down. Perhaps you have it cached? It looks like you can still access the article through the mobile site as well.
No he hasn't. The link works fine from this thread, non-cached from multiple devices.
It just goes to how you the lengths these journalists are prepared to goto to research and how clueless and devoid of any common sense they are. That's an accurate statement as this is a screamingly obvious scam.
Tech Crunch employs lazy incapable journalists with no real tech savvy interest, or due diligence.
Tech Crunch is meant to raise the bar and inform and has just proven it's unaware of where or what the bar actually is. They are about as well informed of tech as Men's Fitness are of fitness...