GeeksOnAPlane Jumps The Pond; But First, A Layover in DC

Nearly 130 million people use the web in Japan and Korea combined, with Japan itself boasting the world’s third biggest Internet population (94 million users). But getting exposure on an international scale is a big problem for globally positioned web startups in these (and many other Asian) markets.
This is a guest post by Shanghai-based entrepreneur George Godula. His company Web2Asia partners with Western Internet companies for market entry in Eastern Asia, and also does early stage investments in local tech startups.
Palo Alto,
Calif. - Facebook now counts 300
million users worldwide, and became cash flow positive in its last financial
quarter, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post on Tuesday. "We
thank all of you for helping us reach the point where we are connecting 300
million people, and we hope to serve you and many more people in increasingly
deep and innovative ways in the months and years ahead," Zuckerberg wrote. Read the rest of this entry »
LG released details of its latest range of hybrid TV/monitors today, and TechRadar has already been lucky enough to get up close with the devices.
Per Michael Arrington’s request I ran backstage and shoved a camera in CitySourced’s founders’ faces just after they completed what was one of the more compelling presentations of the day.
Soft-spoken Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh had some surprisingly harsh criticism for the TC50 companies he saw today: Why aren’t you trying to change the world? I asked him more about that in our backstage sidestage interview during the TC50 cocktail party. “To be fair, is selling shoes changing the world?” I asked. Watch the clip after the jump to hear his answer.