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Disney Prepares To Adapt To Cord Cutters With New MLBAM Deal

The Walt Disney Company just agreed to acquire a one-third stake in MLB Advanced Media. The move is part of Disney’s plan to enhance their video streaming services, and hopefully help curb their cord cutter problem. Bloomberg reported the deal yesterday after speculation began a few months ago. Disney’s purchase is said to value MLBAM at roughly $3.5 […]

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For The First Time In Olympic History, Virtual Reality Broadcast Programming Will Be Available

Tired of watching the standard programming of the Olympics every four years? Well, virtual reality is coming to the Olympic games and it is sure to change your viewing experience. Yesterday, NBC Olympics announced that it will provide Virtual Reality (VR) coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games exclusively to authenticated users with compatible Samsung Galaxy smartphones. […]

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Nike Continues Their Tech-Based Product Push As Rio 2016 Approaches

Nike has slowly unveiled their Olympic gear over the last couple of months. With Rio 2016 less than 40 days away they released some of their newest innovations just in the last week. The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team as well as USA track and field athletes will wear some of the latest tech-infused gear Nike has to […]

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The Tour de France Is Receiving Digital Infrastructure Upgrades

The Tour de France just got a whole lot easier to track and watch. With the creation of Race Center, from Dimension Data and Amaury Sport Organization (A.S.O.), viewers can track race data, video, social media feeds combined with a live tracking website. Race Center runs on Dimension Data’s cloud platform and was created in partnership […]

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