Bleacher Report is a sports website that has raised $10.5 million in venture capital. Bleacher Report receives about 17 million monthly unique visitors. comScore ranks Bleacher Report as the fifth largest sports website after Yahoo!, ESPN, Fox Sports, and AOL Fanhouse. The company recently passed CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated.

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AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has refunded a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan $16,000 after a miscommunication took place. Pfc Jose Rivera was deployed to the Forward Operating Base Shindand in Afghanistan. He believed that his overseas calls would cost $4.95 per month. He made a lot of calls to his wife and newborn child during the time he was being billed at a much higher amount without knowing.

For those of you that have an expensive SLR lens, I would recommend checking out the BETA Shell SLR Lens case. The BETA Shell was designed to make sure that your lens is not damaged if it falls from a high place or if you are in extreme temperatures. It also protects your lens from water. The BETA Shell SLR lens case costs between $45-$84. [BETA Shell via PetaPixel.com]

EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ:ELNK) has acquired One Communications for $370 million. This price includes One Communication’s $285 million in debt. One Communications stockholders have the right to elect in receiving the net merger consideration in the form of cash or EarthLink common stock. The merger has been approved by the Board of Directors and stockholders in both parties. [TechCrunchIT]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Paramount have made a partnership that relates to streaming movies on Windows Phone 7 devices. Paramount will be designing Silverlight-enhanced movies for the Windows Phone 7 devices. Paramount is releasing 10 enhanced movie applications for Windows Phone 7 starting with School of Rock. Other Silverlight-powered movies arriving on Windows Phone 7 include Zoolander, Waiting for Superman and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. [HotHardware]

If you are one of the 3.5 million Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) users that stream movies between 8-10PM, you are considered to be a data hog. According to research by broadband solution and analysis firm Sandvine, “20.6% of all peak period bytes downloaded on fixed access networks in North America are Netflix.” BitTorrent accounted for 13.2% of traffic during peak hours. Real-Time video and audio streaming entertainment consumed 45.7% as a whole. Mmm bandwidth OM NOM NOM NOM! [ZDNet]

Samsung has placed a substantial order for the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset. Now it is rumored that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab sequel will be powered by the Tegra 2. The rumor originated from BMO Capital Markets semiconductor analyst Ambrish Srivastava. This is surprising because Samsung has released their own dual core processor known as the Hummingbird. Why use a third party when you have your own components? Samsung works in mysterious ways. [Ubergizmo]

This year NASA had achieved many milestones. Some of these milestones include the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station, the participation in SpaceX’s first commercial spacecraft, aiding the Chilean miners, discovering the first known microorganism on Earth that can thrive and reproduce using toxic chemical arsenic and helping with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Below is a press release that NASA sent out about their year in review and above is a video I grabbed from YouTube.