It’s Friday, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, a holiday weekend is ahead, and we’ve got a brand new episode of CrunchWeek for you to watch. What more could you wish for?
In today’s show, Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler and I huddled around the big white table to talk about the confirmation that Airbnb has closed on $500 million in a massive new funding round, Twitter’s $200+ million acquisition of its longtime partner for social data “firehose” aggregation Gnip, and the scandal around Instagram reassigning the plum @kathleen username to one of its own employees.