Sports fans indulge in one month of madness for the NCAA basketball tournament. Whether or not their schools are in the tournament or not, fans fill out their brackets and follow the action all the way to the Final Four. This year, the NCAA has partnered with Tagboard, a social media platform that uses hashtags to […]
With newly-launched app Yakatak, soccer enthusiasts worldwide now have the opportunity to immediately chime in to the conversation with their friends. Fans can instantly upload selfie video reactions to anything happening on the pitch while overlaying their content with special emojis, stickers and slogans before sharing within Yakatak or across social media and different chat […]
NEW YORK — After two months of the PGA Tour using Twitter as its exclusive global live stream distribution platform, both organizations have expressed how pleased they are with the deal. For free, golf fans have been able to use Twitter to watch live competition with coverage typically including the first 60 to 90 minutes […]
Garmin announced Wednesday the launch of a smartwatch specifically for triathletes, the Forerunner 935, that includes training features, performance monitoring and heart rate monitoring. The new training features allow athletes to monitor his or her performance by analyzing previous workouts and fitness levels to give insight into how they can better prepare for a race. The […]
During a recent episode of the SportTechie Podcast with host Bram Weinstein, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was asked, ‘What’s the biggest overrated and underrated technology in sports right now?’ His response? “Overrated is analytics. Underrated is artificial intelligence and its derivative.” Why does Cuban think the way he does? “Because it’s become efficient now and because […]
