Topic - sports

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Media, Communications, Internet

Sportgenic Embraces Mixed Martial Arts

Advertising network adds MMA, rough edges and all, to its network of sites as the sport, favored by young males, goes mainstream.
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Media, Communications, Internet

CBS Scores With Sports Ad Network

Buoyed by its online success in college basketball, CBS Sports widens its ad revenue stream by dumping third-party ad networks and taking it in house.
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Computers, Media, Communications, Internet

Yahoo Drives March Madness Mobile

Portal firm, bent on boosting its business on the sluggish mobile web, engages basketball fans in the sport's annual hoops orgy.
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Media, Communications, Internet

Will Mobile TV Fumble College Football Again?

Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm are hoping to score where Mobile ESPN dropped the ball.
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Media

Microsoft Game Takes Top Honors

Gears of War walks home with three trophies at Game Developers Choice Awards.
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Finance

Serious Inc. Scores $14M

Greenhill funds maker of CD and DVD sports trading cards.
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Media

Take-Two Takes In-Game Ads

Game firm partners with Double Fusion to include ads in at least nine upcoming titles.
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General news

Q&A: Viagogo’s Eric Baker

StubHub founder launches a new venture to sell tickets in Europe to sports events.
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Media

NBC Revamps Broadband Sports

TV network teams with MediaZone on subscription sports channels over the Net.
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Media

MediaZone to Serve Wimbledon

Online broadcaster to offer full coverage of the British tennis tournament.
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Media, Internet

Apple, CBS Team on Basketball

Network will test sports fans’ willingness to pay for condensed iTunes versions of March Madness games they can see for free online.
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Finance

FastStats: Online Olympics

NBCOlympics.com near top of Olympic news; Net gambling’s hidden population; more auto insurance customers coming from Web.
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Biosciences, Finance

CoolSystems Adds a Cool $8.6M

Sports injury device maker grabs funding to expand in post-surgery recovery.
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Media, Finance

CBS Buying College Sports Site

CBS says it will acquire college-sports company CSTV Networks for $325 million.
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Archives

Fantasy sports: cut from the lineup

Sandbox.com's castle finally crumbled.
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Archives, Magazine

Fantasy sports: cut from the lineup

Sandbox.com's castle finally crumbled.
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Archives

Sports.com takes its ground game to the air

Success on the Internet doesn't guarantee success on wireless. Just ask Sports.com, the pan-European sports Web site entering the wireless world.
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Archives

Pro sports anti-Napster

An odd cast of characters, including the NBA and Major League Baseball, weigh in against Napster, while the music-swapping Web company finds strange allies.
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Archives

Quokka Sports readies for liftoff

Quokka Sports readies for liftoff