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Twitter going deeper with ESPN

May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Twitter going deeper with ESPN

The leading sports TV network plans to embed a wide variety of highlight clips in its tweets shortly after they happen live, according to The Wall Street Journal. If you like sports highlights but spend more time on social networks than watching TV, Twitter and ESPN are going to do their best to meet your needs. According to The Wall Street Journal, Twitter and ESPN plan to announce tomorrow a deepening of their existing relationship, agreeing on a pact under which the leading sports … [Read more...]

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Twitter reportedly plans to expand Sacramento data center space

May 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Twitter will expand its data center footprint in Sacramento, Data Center Knowledge reports. The move would help the social network support traffic spikes and a continually growing user base. Twitter is leasing more data center space at RagingWire’s 500,000-square-foot campus in Sacramento, Data Center Knowledge reported Friday, attributing its report to “industry sources.” There’s no square-footage figure available, but power use for the expansion is pegged at “more than 20 … [Read more...]

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News flash: Twitter doesn’t have to hire journalists to be a powerful media competitor

May 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Twitter says it doesn’t have any interest in hiring reporters or performing other journalistic functions — but regardless of whether it does so, it is still a powerful media entity and one that grows stronger by the day. When Twitter recently posted a job listing for a “head of news and journalism,” it sparked a rash of posts and commentary about how the company was becoming a media entity — until Twitter staffer Mark Luckie tossed cold water on that idea with an interview in … [Read more...]

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Is it Ever Worth Pulling an All-Nighter?

May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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The other day a meeting cancelled and I decided to dedicate the 60 minutes to cleaning up my email inbox. That was until I opened Outlook and saw that I had accumulated 20,346 emails. It wasn’t getting done in an hour. In a similar moment, Teresa Coles and her partner Cathy Monetti at the marketing agency Riggs Partners, joked that they should just pull an all-nighter and finally make a dent in their to-do list. They recalled how in college the all-nighter was the go-to play in this … [Read more...]

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SendHub, A Google Voice Alternative For Enterprise, Arrives On Android

April 15, 2013 By
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SendHub, the Y Combinator-backed call and messaging solution targeting business users and other organizations, is today extending its platform to include support for Android. The company had previously rolled out support for iPhone almost a year ago, promising that an Android option was on the roadmap. The company says that demand for Android support was high – they were averaging around 30 requests per day from users who wanted an Android version of SendHub. Like the iOS … [Read more...]

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Jarrett Jack fined $25,000

April 15, 2013 By
Jarrett Jack fined $25,000

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Golden State Warriors guard Jarrett Jack has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for "verbal abuse" of an official. The league announced the fine Sunday. The incident occurred at the conclusion of Golden State's 118-116 loss at the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. Some Warriors players were upset over the officiating late in the game, including the free throw disparity. The Lakers shot 50 free throws, while the Warriors had 16 attempts. Golden State hosts San … [Read more...]

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Kobe Bryant likely out 6-9 months

April 15, 2013 By
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant had surgery on Saturday afternoon to repair the torn Achilles tendon in his left leg and is expected to need six to nine months to recover, the team announced. "When something like this happens, everybody wants to know why and there's not always a reason why. If you look at our season, it's been a nightmare," longtime trainer Gary Vitti said after Lakers practice Saturday. "We had a player come in with a surgery, which was Dwight … [Read more...]

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Why everybody is building a Web music service

April 15, 2013 By
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Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow him on Twitter and add him to your Circles on Google+. (CNN) -- By the time you read this Twitter may have already announced it's getting into the online-music business. If so, they will have plenty of company -- courtesy of some of the tech world's biggest names. After days of speculation, Twitter on Friday rolled out a Web page for Twitter Music. Of course, it was a page that didn't do anything, … [Read more...]

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Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank ‘would have been a belieber’

April 15, 2013 By
Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank 'would have been a belieber'

(CNN) -- If Anne Frank had not died a teenager in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, Justin Bieber hopes she would have been his devoted fan. That's what Bieber, 19, wrote in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House when he visited there Friday, according to the Amsterdam site. "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber," Bieber wrote. The tourist site posted the message on its Facebook page. Adolescent and teen girls … [Read more...]

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Obama Goes Against the Grain of What America Represents

April 15, 2013 By
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I call Obama’s proposal to put a limit on the tax-free savings that can be put in a 401k an outrageous piece of statist interference in the free market. How dare you tell me I can’t put more than $3 million away in my 401k if I’m able? What right have you to dictate that I’ll be able to make do on $205,000 a year? It’s this kind of interference in a climate where savings aren’t growing except for 2% of America that’s going to fuel another bout of accusations that Obama is some kind … [Read more...]

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