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Zepp Labs Multi-Sport Training System Will Take Your Swing to New Heights

(Zepp Sports) In the current age of sports, athletes are looking to get the leg up and be able to analyze and correctly evaluate their games as effectively as possible. Zepp Labs, a leader in sports sensor technology, announced today the availability of the world’s first app-powered multi-sport sensor and dedicated apps for baseball, golf and tennis. The Zepp Multi-Sport Sensor captures 1,000 data points per second and helps you analyze your swing and improve your game. The data provided by the device gives you quick evaluations of your swing, whether in golf, basketball or tennis.

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Athletes and Tech Startups: Good or Bad Investment?

In just eight years, a small startup formed in a college dorm turned into an Internet powerhouse valued at over $100 billion.  Yes, everyone knows the story of Facebook and how a couple college dropouts turned into billionaires seemingly overnight. Since the Internet boom of the late 90’s and early 2000’s, hundreds of thousands of […]

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Chicago Bears Announces Soldier Field to Undergo Major Wireless Upgrade for Enhanced Fan Experience

(Precision Aerial) Any sports fan has dealt with this problem numerous times. You walk into the stadium of your favorite team with thousands of your closest friends for the day and you are excited to tweet, send pictures and read about things going on in the game that you might have missed from your seat. Then the 4G network on your phone is instantly overloaded and is relegated to a fancy, expensive paperweight for the next three hours.

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How SportVU Came to be the NBA Analytics Game Changer

(NBA.com and STATS LLC) The world of sports has become a game of numbers. Driven by undeniable evolutions in performance tangibly influenced by such efforts, the successful marriage of analytical evaluation has enjoyed an amazing journey, from an eccentric fascination to a progressive experiment to an industrial necessity. Teams are in the business of research, and many are dedicating substantial budget to keep up with any and everything you might find in use by the competition. In the NBA, teams are taking it step further, not only by pushing analytic icons into executive offices, but also by pushing analytic limits in empowering their visions for tomorrow. Consider the rise of SportVU. The flurry of headlines revolving around this application’s attachment to...

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