Tag: Hockey

  • ELEAGUE eSports Championship Broadcasting On TBS, Live Streaming On Twitter

    ELEAGUE eSports championship featuring pro video gamers playing Valve’s popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game will broadcast today on TBS thanks to the sports tech collaboration between Turner and WME | IMG showcasing one of the world’s fastest growing sports, mainly watched by millennial and generation Z viewers, as well as Gen X old schooler’s like me and some…

  • Current State Of The Thriving Fantasy Sports Industry

    Fantasy sports growth in North America during 2016 increased to around 57.4 million mostly young male players according to new research by Ipsos Public Affairs in Canada on behalf of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) located in New York. Since the study covering both traditional and daily fantasy began in 2013, the boom in…

  • WinView Leads Second Screen TV Market Because Of Patents, Investments and Board

      WinView raised a partial close of a $3.4 million Series A round of equity financing to allow the company to further corner the synchronized two-screen TV market as well as continue to push their live television play along, digital fan experience. The Silicon Valley-based sports technology business is focused on delivering free mobile two-screen…

  • ForceDecks Sports Tech By NMP Technologies EIS Official Supplier

      ForceDecks Sports Tech By NMP Technologies EIS Official Supplier The sports tech athlete performance monitoring system ForceDecks was today named an official supplier of the English Institute of Sport (EIS). ForceDecks created by NMP (Neuromuscular Performance) Technologies developed impactful force-platform technology in their laboratory then unleashed their product onto the training ground for top…

  • Strat-O-Matic Fantasy Baseball Daily Digital Player Cards

    Strat-O-Matic Fantasy Baseball Daily Digital Player Cards Strat-O-Matic Baseball Daily is the newest baseball fantasy baseball simulation game developed by Strat-O-Matic Media LLC. The Sports Techie community blog chatted with the creator of original fantasy sim game, Hal Richmond, Founder and CEO of Strat-O-Matic, about the launch of their newest Major League Baseball digital product and…

  • Hexoskin Awarded CSA Contract To Develop Astronaut Remote Health Care Monitoring Technology

    Hexoskin Awarded CSA Contract To Develop Astronaut Remote Health Care Monitoring Technology Hexoskin was awarded another contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop a new technology, a patch-based sensor network to remotely monitor astronaut’s vital signs. Teneisha Collins, Community Manager, Hexoskin (Carré Technologies) shared this news because the new contract has applications beyond…

  • IBM Sports Tech Twitter Chat With Sports Techie And IBMer Jim Rushton

    IBM Sports Tech Twitter Chat With Sports Techie And IBMer Jim Rushton The first IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) Twitter Chat of 2016, on Tuesday, January 5 at 1PM EST, covers sports and technology. The social conversation will be co-hosted by me and current IBMer Jim Rushton, Global Leader / Partner, Sports and Entertainment Practice at IBM…

  • Blackalicious Multi-Platform “Sports Alphabet” Remix Powered By Bleacher Report

    Blackalicious Multi-Platform “Sports Alphabet” Remix Powered By Bleacher Report The new Blackalicious song ‘Sports Alphabet’ in conjunction with Bleacher Report, is a ground breaking multi-platform brand campaign. The “Sports Alphabet” hip-hop urban campaign was launched by Blackalicious, together with bay area advertising agency barrettSF and Gentlemen Scholar handling the A-Z video graphics. The legends of hiphop remixed their hit…

  • Ephesus Lighting Acquired By Eaton For Sports Venues Connected LED

    Ephesus Lighting Acquired By Eaton For Sports Venues Connected LED Ephesus Lighting was acquired by Eaton, a Pittsburgh based power management company last week. It was quite a year for Ephesus Lighting located in Syracuse, N.Y. beginning with their connected light-emitting diode solutions lighting up the inside of the University of Phoenix Stadium (UOP) for Super Bowl 49 early in 2015.…