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How Social Media Is Changing Sports [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Friday, April 27, 2012

How Social Media Is Changing Sports [INFOGRAPHIC]
4:00:50 AM
Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms are having a tremendous impact on the sports world for fans, players, teams and sponsors alike. We try to stay on top of that here at Mashable, bringing you stories on great sports memes, moments...



This $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth's Richest Company
Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:42 PM
Meet Amun 3554. Doesn't look like much, right? Little more than a mile wide, it's one of the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroids yet discovered. Unless it ever decides to smash into us -- a theoretical possibility, but extremely unlikely...



Airbnb Launches Match: A Booking Service that Makes More Sense
Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:04 PM
Airbnb users may have booked 4 million nights of accommodation in 2011, but the room-renting startup didn't make it easy until now. The company launched a new booking process on Thursday called "Match" that aims to make searching and booking...



Why Apple's CEO Is Right About 'Refrigerator-Toasters' -- and Laptop-Tablets
Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:59 PM
Few people have the kind of clout that their off-the-cuff asides qualify as world news. Apple CEO Tim Cook is such a person. His ad-libbed comment during this week's company earnings call about "convergence" devices has inspired more online buzz...



StumbleUpon Hits 25 Million Users -- And is Gaining 1 Million a Month
Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:56 PM
StumbleUpon passed the 25 million user mark earlier this week -- that's about one million users every month since it announced it had reached 20 million users in October. The discovery service has existed in some form since 2001. It accepted its...



Amazon Stock Surges on Strong First Quarter Results
Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:52 PM
Internet retailer Amazon beat analysts' estimates for its first quarter on Thursday, prompting a 15% surge in its stock price in after-hours trading. Net income for the quarter dropped 35% to $130 million, or .28 per share, compared with its...



Google Actually Sells a Service: Sketchup is Going to Trimble
Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:14 PM
Google announced Thursday that it was selling 3D modelling tool SketchUp -- an unusual event for the tech giant known for aqcuiring companies more than for selling them. Trimble Navigation is purchasing the platform for an undisclosed amount of...



Kindle Fire Takes 54% of Android Tablet Market [STUDY]
Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:59 PM
Amazon's Kindle Fire has taken 54.4% of the Android tablet market, leaving the number two in the category -- Samsung Galaxy Tab -- in the dust, according to comScore. The Kindle Fire, introduced in November, nearly doubled its share over the last...



Amazing Video of Planets, Stitched Together from NASA Photos
Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:07 PM
A spectacular new video combines NASA images of the Saturn and Jupiter systems into an eye-popping montage of moons, rings and swirling otherworldly storms. The video strings together photos snapped by NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft,...



Children, Puppies and Webby Awards, Oh My!
Thursday, April 26, 2012 3:46 PM
Mashable is very excited to be nominated for a Webby Award in the business category!  Today is the final day to vote and we'd greatly appreciate your help. VOTE HERE FOR MASHABLE While we focus on staying on top of the latest business news, we...



10 Funniest Sketch Comedy Channels on YouTube
Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:31 PM
Platforms like YouTube have created opportunities for the sketch comedians of the world. Before, it would have been nearly impossible for anyone just starting out to convince a major television network to launch his script into production. Today,...



Kickstarter Spoof Wants Funding for T-Shirts, Beer [VIDEO]
Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:17 PM
Yahoo has released a hilarious video that pokes of crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, featuring a guy named Nick asking the public to help find his life. The video -- called "Nickstarter" -- spoofs the popular crowd-funding platform that allows...



12 Mysterious Google Maps Sightings
Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:50 PM
Google Maps is an incredible resource for virtual sightseeing, but it's also home to some quirky and mysterious finds, from shipwrecked boats to a Photoshopped Irish prison. For example, much of North Korea is not visible on Google Maps, aside...



10 Sassy Brands on Social Media
Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:20 PM
Advertisers are beginning to realize that a viral video may be a short-term goal, but it takes an entire successful social campaign to slug a home run. Remember when the "Wassup?" Budweiser commercial turned into an oft-repeated catchphrase?...



Amazon's Advantage in Daily Deals Could Be Recommendations
Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:33 AM
Amazon's advantage in the daily deal market could be its shopping cart. Last quarter, consumers purchased $17.43 billion of products from Amazon. As they piled their virtual shopping carts high with everything from books to camping equipment,...



 
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