New York City-based Aereo got a big initial win in court today, as it will e able to continue operating while also fighting a lawsuit against some major broadcasters. According to Reuters , U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan denied an injunction sought by those broadcast networks, which would have shut Aereo down while the lawsuit was underway.

Facebook has redesigned its events dashboard to include new calendar and list views that help users see upcoming events and friends’ birthdays more efficiently than before. Previously, Facebook presented events in a single list that didn’t allow users to easily navigate to a particular day or month.

Facebook and NBC today  announced a partnership for the upcoming London Olympics that will give the network data about what users are talking about related to the Games and includes Timeline integration for the NBC Olympics website. The companies will collaborate by directing viewers of the games to interact on Facebook as well as encouraging Facebook users to tune into the NBC broadcasts.

APIs are marching into education, and it’s about time. Education is rife with legacy infrastructure, with one of the primary offenders being Student Information Systems (SIS).

For industry people who keep up with the daily technology news cycle of incremental feature updates , startup launches , and seed funding stories, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture of how tech has changed how the world operates. So sometimes, it’s fun to just step back and realize how crazy something that’s happening today would seem to someone who time-traveled to today from, say, 100 years ago — or even how improbable it would seem to yourself just five years back. To wit: People are now signing $100 million contracts not with a pen, but with a finger

Twitter announced a major overhaul of its mobile site today aimed at users on feature phones and older browsers. In a blog post, the Twitter design team wrote that they built a “lighter-weight, faster client that looks and feels like twitter.com and our mobile apps.” The new site is much cleaner and is very similar to the browser and app interfaces, allowing the company to deliver the best version of its product across more platforms. This comes on the heels of yesterday’s  release  of new Twitter mobile apps for iOS and Android. The results of Twitter’s nine week project brings mobile support to thirteen different browsers for thousands of different devices. On the blog, the team writes about working to provide users with a “consistent experience on any device.” The new site can scale from screens as small as 240 x 240 pixels up to desktops. In an effort to accomodate slower networks and different browsers, the site is optimized for browsers with javascript turned off and offers page sizes that are up to 63% smaller than the old version.

General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz have given $4 million in Series A to stealth startup Parlay Labs we’re hearing, with General Catalyst leading the round. The newest member of the groundswell of enterprise communication startups, which includes TCDisrupt winners Yammer and UberConference, the Palo Alto based Parlay Labs wants to “reinvent the way people are communicating at work” according to its website. While it’s difficult to parse exactly what this may mean, I’m going to make an educated guess and say they too are trying to improve the extremely broken conferencing space which, as anyone who’s ever been on a conference call can attest, is extremely broken

Defining an energy efficiency strategy can be challenging for big organizations with multiple large buildings.

As our content is scattered across sites like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, the idea of a single, standalone website is starting to feel a bit quaint.

Facebook has finally redesigned Events so you don’t miss another party, birthday, or cool get-together your friends are going to. Today the site launches the Events Calendar so you can see what coming up weeks in advance, and a List view that highlights each day’s birthdays, RSVPs, and suggested events (though these links won’t work until you get the rollout. The redesign started as a Hackathon project a year ago and will replace the old Events for all users over the next few hours