Hulu has signed on as an official sponsor of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs and Final, expanding the streaming service’s live sports content as it works to compete with Amazon.com, Facebook and other over-the-top services. Hulu, which is jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, Comcast and Time Warner, announced that it […]
The first Major League Baseball game to be live streamed on Facebook was bogged down by a 97-minute rain delay and a learning curve but also showed a willingness to listen and adapt — even mid-game. Last season, MLB streamed games on Facebook and Twitter that were simulcasts of regional broadcasts — Twitter will be […]
Disseminating high school sports scores has always been a chore — that is until ScoreStream came along. Since its founding in 2012, the company has worked to find new ways of getting you local high school scores. It has established relationships with the Associated Press, Snapchat and a slew of local newspapers, restaurants, TV and radio […]
Here are the top seven technology areas that impacted the NFL this season: 1. Football tracking In the fourth year of its five-year deal with the NFL, Zebra Technologies was able to place in tracking chips in all game balls. That enables the gathering of data including the velocity and rotation rate of the football. […]
Facebook has provided a platform for LiAngelo Ball to explain what happened in China, with cameras from the reality show Ball in the Family taking viewers inside the hotel room where he was forced to stay following a shoplifting incident in November. In an episode released Sunday, Ball was shown huddling up with his father […]
