Tag: acquisition
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The Basketball Tournament 5v5 One Million Dollar Prize And New ESPN Partnership
The Basketball Tournament 5v5 One Million Dollar Prize And New ESPN Partnership The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is a free, open and winner take the new million dollars prize event that today announced a significant television partnership with ESPN for the 2015 single-elimination, expanded field. The Sports Techie chatted with TBT, Founder and Creator, Jonathan Mugar,…
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MondoGoal Partners With FC Barcelona For Pay Fantasy Sports Games
MondoGoal Partners With FC Barcelona For Pay Fantasy Sports Games The Sports Techie community blog spoke by phone this week to Shergul Arshad in Boston, the CEO and founder of Mondogoal, in a Q&A about their fast expanding global fantasy sports platform, marketing tool and business model that just partnered with FC Barcelona as their…
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Digital Scout App Powers 80 State Football Championship Participants Tracked On NFHS Networks
Digital Scout App Powers 80 State Football Championship Participants Tracked On NFHS Networks Sports technology is fast becoming the difference maker for high school athletic teams as the astounding fact that 80 state championship participants in football during the 2014 season used Digital Scout data, tracked and displayed on the NFHS Network, reveals. The Sports…
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BigTeams Raises Series B Round, Acquires Schedule Star To Expand Digital Offering
BigTeams Raises Series B Round, Acquires Schedule Star To Expand Digital Offering BigTeams plans to disrupt high school athletics with their acquisition of Schedule Star, from Gannett, after raising a $5 million Series B financial commitment, according to their CEO, Clay Walker. The Sports Techie community blog also spoke to Walker last April after he was…
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Bleacher Report Founder, General Manager And CTO Front Office Promotions
Bleacher Report Founder, General Manager And CTO Front Office Promotions Bleacher Report took the sports world by digital storm after their 2012 acquisition by Time Warner for nearly $200 million resulting in new strategic advisory roles announced today for company founder and general manager Dave Finocchio and Sam Parnell, chief technology officer; while Dorth Raphaely becomes…
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SignalShare Expands LiveFi Offering to Create the First End-to-End Audience Engagement Platform for Live Events
SignalShare Expands LiveFi Offering to Create the First End-to-End Audience Engagement Platform for Live Events The Sports Techie community blog last spoke to Signal Share, a top provider of mobile engagement solutions for mass audiences and live events back in March of 2013, so it was our pleasure to reconnect and chat with Joe Costanzo,…
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Under Armour Activates Sponsor Partnership With NFHS Network, PlayOn Sports
Under Armour Activates Sponsor Partnership With NFHS Network, PlayOn Sports Under Armour continues to support the sports business that has a technology driven core, this time they have partnered with the NFHS Network, the nation’s groundbreaking high school multimedia corporation. The deal spans multiple years and allows Under Armour to become the first anchor partner of…
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LongoMatch Acquired By Fluendo To Change Sports Analytics
LongoMatch Acquired By Fluendo To Change Sports Analytics Have you noticed the expanding role of analytics in sports thanks to technology, if so, get ready for LongoMatch. They were just acquired by Fluendo, to help sport organizations with their tech products that analyze, evaluate and digitally breakdown, live game and post-match performance and strategy metrics. The…
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STATS LLC Buys Bloomberg Sports (BSports) Creating Sports Analytics Leader
STATS LLC Buys Bloomberg Sports (BSports) Creating Sports Analytics Leader The breaking sports technology news out of New York and Illinois today is STATS aggressive acquisition of Bloomberg Sports (BSports) establishing the industries premier resource for sports analytics. STATS, is considered one of the leading sports tech, data metrics and sport content companies in the…
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D3O Granted PEO Soldier Funding For Shock Absorbing Helmet System Testing
D3O Granted PEO Soldier Funding For Shock Absorbing Helmet System Testing The news out of Brighton, UK, that D3O, the British smart material pioneers, was granted capitol by Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier – the US Army’s acquisition agency, to test evaluate their prototype shock absorbing helmet system solutions that will fundamentally change impact protection,…