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College Sports League to Stream Its Own Content OnlineWith television broadcast deals that reach into the billions of dollars, the delivery of college sports as entertainment has long been huge business. Now the Pacific-12 Conference is aiming to create what would likely be college sports’ largest and most futuristic mode of digital distribut... 7 Lead Generation Trends For 2012 — What You Need to Do Right Now [SPONSORED]This post is brought to you by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software, including marketing automation tools. For more information on sponsored posts, read here. You decide. Is this 2012 AD or is it 0008 FB — t... NASA Kepler Telescope Finds 26 New Alien Planets in 11 Solar SystemsNASA announced on Friday that its Kepler telescope has discovered 11 new planetary systems that include 26 confirmed alien planets. The new planets vary in size from one-and-a-half times the radius of Earth to bigger than Jupiter. Their orbital periods range from six to 143 days, and th... Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at WorkWhat does where we tweet say about how we live and work? That’s one of the questions Oakland-based programmer Eric Fischer hoped to answer with his latest mapping project. Fischer, a mapping fanatic and artist, is used to displaying vast amounts of information in visually compelling ways.... Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]The long-awaited tech IPO of the year — perhaps of the decade — is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. If it comes to pass, this will be the largest tech IPO in history, yielding around ... Google Music Finally Lets You Download Your Own Tunes [VIDEO]Google Music, Google’s cloud music service, has finally introduced a feature that lets users download their music to a computer with just a click of a button. It’s been nearly a year since Google Music made it easy for users to add their music to the cloud services for easy s... Snaps on Maps: Google Wants to Send Photographers Inside Your BusinessGoogle wants to get all up in your business — but in a good way. The search giant just unveiled an expansion to its Business Photos program, which aims to put indoor images of businesses on Google Maps and Google Places profiles. The program now has a clear way to hook business owners up wi... Google and Bing Searches Help Us Pirate Music?Of course the public is going to pirate music when 80% of our search results for music direct us to illegal sites. That’s the claim made by a coalition of entertainment industry groups in a private document sent to the U.K. government. In the paper, the coalition says that Google ... Flashpoint Demo Day a Glimpse of How Entrepreneurs’ Dreams Come TrueA gathering of entrepreneurs in the Bay Area on Thursday offered a window into how ambitious techies’ visions become reality. It started with a presentation from a go-getter named Adam Ghetti. Dressed casually in a dark tee-shirt, Ghetti stepped to the front a conference room at the Silico... Solar Storm Smacks the Earth — And We’ve Got VideoA massive wave of charged particles exploded from the sun and hit Earth earlier this week in what NASA calls “the most intense solar energetic particle storm since 2005.” The resulting magnificent light show has been making the rounds around the Internet through videos like the one be... |