Web Data Caps Not Prepared for Pervasive Connectedness
Comcast (Xfinity) made headlines yesterday with its discontinuation of a standard 250 gigabytes a month cap for its residential users, in favor of a new format, which starts at 300 gigabytes a month, with the option to buy more. As a residential custom...
Facebook IPO Day: The Scene At NASDAQ’s NYC Times Square HQ [TCTV]
In case there was any confusion after Facebook's eight years in business and its recent geographic expansions, it was cleared up today: Facebook's home and heart lies in Silicon Valley.
TechCrunch TV saw that first-hand this morning...Facebook Video App: Youtoo Can Be On TV
It’s not quite a primetime slot on one of the “Big Four” television networks, but Facebook video application Youtoo announced that videos uploaded via its Be on TV app will air on “network television,” in “177 of the top 200 cable markets i...
Exclusive: Japan’s Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation
The largest e-commerce site in Japan is about to get pinned by Ben Silbermann in massive funding round.
How Personal Capital Wants To Bring Money Management Into The Internet Age [TCTV]
Personal Capital, which launched last year, provides a suite of software aimed at helping people manage all their personal finances -- no matter where they are -- through one central suite of web and mobile...Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Summer Semester 2012 [Video]
Your education doesn't have to stop once you get out of school—being free of the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We've put together a curricu...
Keen On… Jim Steyer: How To Talk Back To Facebook [TCTV]
If anybody knows how to talk back to Facebook, it's Jim Steyer, the founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, America's largest and most powerful advocacy group for kids. Steyer is the author of...Google+ Hangouts on Air Lets You Broadcast Live to the World [Video]
Google+ Hangouts, our favorite free video chatting service, is rolling out the ability to broadcast your Hangouts live and save them directly to YouTube with "Hangouts on Air." More »
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Scott Thompson: Should he stay or should he go now?
What a week it’s been! Here are the stories we discuss in this week’s edition of VBWeekly:
Come and listen to a story ’bout a man named Scott Thompson, a poor CEO who… well, who lied on his resume then
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Gillmor Gang: Tomorrow Never Knows
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — turned off their minds, relaxed, and floated downstream on the push notification inbox of tomorrow. Borrowing a page from the Tibetan Book of...