As a resident living in Toronto (Ford Nation) these talks are all very relevant and important. Hope our civic leaders, including the Mayor, watch these.

A four-year-old British boy survived the bloody Kenyan shopping mall attack after standing up to a terrorist gunman and telling him: “You’re a very bad man.”

Twitter and CBS just announced what Glenn Brown, who leads Twitter’s Amplify program, called “probably one of the most comprehensive partnerships that you will see coming out of Amplify.”

Are you finding your in-box flooded with LinkedIn requests? That may be because some people are sending out the invitations against their will, according to a lawsuit that accuses the site of hacking users’ email programs.

Felix Baumgartner’s jump was record-breaking in many ways, and — as Google’s Barak Regev said on Wednesday at GigaOM’s Structure:Europe conference in London — surprisingly greedy on the bandwidth front.

Storify, the social-media curation company started by former journalist Burt Herman, is being acquired by Livefyre, a comment-hosting service that has been expanding rapidly into other aspects of social content for businesses.