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| Dec 19, 2017 | Three Women In Wine Talk Business Past And Future | (From right) MaryAnn Tsai, Debra Mathy, Nicole Carter talk to Double Forte senior vice president... [+] Maggie Zeman at the BNY Mellon Wealth Management Game Changers panel at the Nomad Hotel in New York City on October 25, 2017. Susan H. G... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays...Scooter Gennett? Reds OF Has Historic Night | Last night in Cincinnati, Reds left fielder Scooter Gennett had a very good week. Gennett, who was not even supposed to be in the lineup before a batting practice-rainstorm altered manager Bryan Price's plans, entered the game with three ho... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Exclusive: MLB Is Announcing a Huge Partnership With LGBT-Owned Businesses | In a win for LGBT-owned small businesses across the U.S., Major League Baseball is announcing a partnership with the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) to help certified businesses become official suppliers for the MLB f... |
| Oct 12, 2015 | Oyster’s Sunset Shows Subscriptions Alone Won’t Address Challenges Of Ad Blocking | Joe Hyrkin Contributor
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Oyster, the “Netflix for books,” made headlines when the company announced it was shutting down. News then broke that Oyster’s co-founders and CEO would be joining the Google Play Books tea... |
| Jul 29, 2015 | For the first time, sensors and a computer play umpire in a pro baseball game | Eric Brynes watches the pitch monitor on a screen from behind home plate.
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| Jul 22, 2015 | Dueling Lawsuits Threaten The NFL, DirecTV's Annoying Sunday Ticket Exclusive | The availability of NFL games online has long been a bit of a joke when compared to the NBA or MLB, in large part thanks to the league’s exclusive deal with DirecTV for out of market games. The televised bastard child of this unholy union i... |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Lending startup Bond Street Marketplace raises $110M
Online lending company based in New York, Bond Street Marketplace, anno... |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Derek Jeter invests in cyberbullying app StopIt | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Former Yankees player Derek Jeter announced today... |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Derek Jeter invests in cyberbullying app StopIt | Former Yankees player Derek Jeter announced today that his venture arm is investing in StopIt, an app that fights cyberbullying. Jeter’s youth organization, Turn 2 Foundation, also announced it is partnering with StopIt with the goal of hel... |
| Apr 7, 2015 | MLB.com Hits Home Run With Record Opening Day Streaming Numbers | Major League Baseball had a nice little opening day for itself yesterday as record numbers of people accessed games through live and on-demand video streams. In fact, a total 60 million people came through the virtual turn-styles using MLB.... |
| Nov 12, 2014 | MLB Runs Its Massive Statcast Tool In The AWS Cloud | Major League Baseball recognizes it’s a software-defined world and as such over the last several years, it’s been moving quickly to create applications to enhance the fan experience and let them watch and interact with MLB properties, where... |
| Aug 28, 2014 | ALS Association Tries To Trademark Ice Bucket Challenge, Despite Having Nothing To Do With It Originally | The whole Ice Bucket Challenge thing has become quite the story of the month of August, and it’s certainly been fascinating to watch how this viral promotion has turned into a massive money raiser for research into ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral ... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | Clayton Kershaw Hopes to Continue Domination of MLB | Each year, MLB teams play 162 regular season games. Due to this plethora of contests, most players never feel performance nerves until the end of the season when their team is trying to cement a playoff spot or is vying to win a pennant. Ho... |
| Jul 10, 2014 | MLB’s iBeacon Project Enters Phase Two With Interactive Ballpark Attractions | Major League Baseball was among the first to embrace Apple’s iBeacon technology on a wide scale, installing them in 28 MLB ballparks across the U.S. last year to help iPhone owners check-in to games automatically and collect special offers.... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | Federal Hill’s Parking Panda made official parking partner of MLB.com | Four Major League Baseball teams, with another 12 to 15 on the way, will be directing fans to the technology of Federal Hill startup Parking Panda to find and reserve parking for this season’s baseball games.
The Houston Astros, Minnesota T... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | Major League Baseball’s “At Bat” App Gets Updated To Support Expanded Instant Replay | It’s opening day for the first Major League Baseball season to feature “expanded instant replay,” a system that allows reviews of umpires’ calls through video footage. And today the MLB is also releasing an update to its official app, MLB.c... |
| Aug 8, 2013 | At Bat 13 Major League Baseball app debuts for Windows Phone 8 | Baseball season may be entering the final stretch, but there are still many games left to be played and Windows Phone 8 customers can keep up with all of the action going on in the run up to playoff time. Regardless of how your team is fari... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | Want to catch more foul balls? IdealSeat shows you where to sit at the ballgame | Using the IdealSeat app, you can see where the most foul balls go in a baseball stadium.
Catching a foul ball can be one of the greatest joys for baseball fans. Only a handful of the thousands who spend their night at the ballpark find them... |
| Apr 4, 2013 | Major League Baseball Strikes Deal With Qualcomm To Sort Out Wireless In Ballparks | Major League Baseball is the stuff of Americana and nostalgia, but it’s also trying hard to keep up with the 21st century. Today, MLBAM, its interactive/digital media subsidiary, said that it has inked a deal with Qualcomm, for the latter t... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | MLB Advanced Media Ups Its Game Streaming More than Baseball to Mobile | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 3/13/13, 9:26 am. See below.] Naturally, there is much ado about baseball at Major League Baseball Advanced Media in New York, especially with spring training underwa... |
| Dec 3, 2012 | Taking a Step Back | I don't think I'm stepping out on a ledge saying this past weekend was the busiest sports couple-of-days of this year. Most of that was because of the worst story of the year: The suicide-murder by Jovan Belcher (above), who played lineback... |
| Nov 26, 2012 | Even That Jerky Fireman Has Quit Cheering for the Jets | How's our old friend sports doing? Well, baseball has wrapped up, basketball is in its early-season dregs, and hockey (still) hasn't started yet. Luckily there was lots of awesome football and college football and even Canadian football. Fo... |
| Nov 12, 2012 | The Lakers' Long National Nightmare Is Over | Veterans Day was on Sunday, so sports teams and leagues made tribute to the military, naturally. The most striking thing anyone did, maybe, was Bears owner Virginia McCaskey's PSA during the first half of Sunday night's Texans-Bears game. S... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | It's Not Other Teams That Win, It's the Yankees That Lose | It’s almost Halloween! Do you know athletes dress up in stupid kiddy costumes on Halloween? Yep, they wear these jerseys. You ever seen an adult in them things? Super sad. Anyways, here’s every single thing that happened in sports last week... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Reason for the Season | I said October is best sports month of the year last week, and while nothing has changed in the past week to make that any less true, I should nonetheless qualify that by noting that March, which has both the NCAA tournamnet and less meltin... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | MLB: Baseball fans taking to iOS 6 Passbook like ducks to water | MLB.com reader comments 43 with 27 posters participating, including story author
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The new Passbook app included in iOS 6 is Apple's new way of managing airline tickets, cust... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | Talkin' Bout Playoffs | October is the busiest, and in many ways, best sports month of the year. Baseball goes into the playoffs, college and pro football get interesting, and basketball and hockey teams gear up for the season. There’s no hockey this year, though,... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Thank You NFL for Saving Our Sundays | We understand, you missed this past week in sports because of Fashion Week. Elite athletic competition is nice, but culottes, French cuffs, and DJs whose last names are Sevigny are a bit cooler. No biggie; not judging; I feel the same way. ... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | Seattle startup BigDoor powering NFL.com rewards | With the NFL regular season fast approaching, the football league this week announced its first-ever NFL Fan Rewards. The program gives regular users of NFL.com virtual coins in exchange for reading articles, commenting and taking part in o... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Is Cable TV Tuning In Its Own Obsolescence? | Cable TV may be in for a rude awakening from the dream-like hold it has managed to keep over consumers all these years. Recent content provider disputes among DirecTV and Viacom, along with legal decisions allowing websites like Aereo to st... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Wide World of Balls - Penn State of Abuse | We understand, you spent all weekend outside because it was actually nice out for a change, and then ate some of them bad eggs you found on the corner and got sick and missed all the good action. Well, most of the action was baseball. Maybe... |
| Jul 4, 2012 | How to Watch Baseball Online – Legally or Illegally | Every Major League Baseball season has a whopping 2,430 regular-season games that are played from April through October – not counting spring training or the playoffs. That is a lot of baseball. And of course, you’d like to use your PC or t... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | Free Agents of Destruction | We understand, you spent all weekend celebrating Canada Day. I did too. Wasn’t it so weird they burned that Uncle Sam effigy pinata? And what was their prime minister doing joining Megadeth onstage? Couldn’t they just do fireworks? Oh, in c... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | O3 World asks that you #Vote4Chooch for the 2012 MLB All-Star Game, builds site for the campaign | Local web design and development company O3 World would like to ask just one thing of you. Or, rather, that you do this one thing 25 times before this Thursday.
#Vote4Chooch asks you support Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz for the 2012 MLB All... |
| Jun 25, 2012 | Dickey on Fire | We understand, you spent all weekend at the beach, and the whole week before that you finished your Russian taxes and young adult novels so you could make time to go to the beach. You missed all the games and the cool articles about them. L... |
| Jun 4, 2012 | The Clippers Are So Dumb | Here’s everything important that happened in every sport last week. If it’s not in here, it’s unathletic.
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- The Thunder want to make David Roth look bad, so they won two games in a row. DeJuan Blair, who started most of the year for San... |
| May 19, 2012 | Ed Burns, Wade Boggs And A Fishing Tournament In New York City | Gallery: Ed Burns and Wade Boggs
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| May 7, 2012 | This Week in Balls - May 7, 2012 | Screw keeping up with sports. Who, besides freaks, has the time? Why not read this instead for the gist of what's been happening with balls this past week and use this knowledge to successfully hobnob with weird regular people at the office... |
| May 2, 2012 | This Week in Balls - May 2, 2012 | Not everyone can or should follow sports full-time, or even real-time. So we give you the gist of what’s going on in and around the world of balls this past week so you can hobnob with weird regular people at the office, your doorman, your ... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | Google Maps Takes You Out To MLB Opening Day | Given today is Major League Baseball’s official Opening Day (despite whatever confusing metric was used to determine it), Google Maps has put together a new video that features Google Earth’s 3D models of some of the league’s most storied s... |
| Mar 4, 2012 | New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for February 2012 | As smartphones and tablets end up in the hands of more people, the volume of apps continues to rise exponentially. We noted that January had the highest download rate of the top 200 iOS apps from the Apple App Store than any month previous.... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | RIP Gary Carter, Who Tried | It is no easy thing to eulogize an athlete. We think we know them, but we don’t; we have simply watched them do their work.
But then, the athletes we’ve spent heavy time observing—baseball players maybe, in their interminable seasons, or ba... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | View from My Seat gives sports fans a place to share experience | In the sixth inning of a Phillies game earlier this month, this author sat in the 416 section of Citizens Bank Park and snapped a photo of the packed stadium as Cliff Lee led the Dodgers 2-0.
It was perhaps an unremarkable moment, simply an... |
| May 10, 2011 | BigDoor ‘gamifies’ America’s pastime, strikes deal with MLB | Red Sox player badges
Baseball already has pennants. Now, it is getting badges too — at least of the digital variety. Seattle startup BigDoor and MLB Advanced Media — the interactive arm of Major League Baseball — today announced that visit... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | Why Doesn't Volvo Want Android Users? | Baseball season has started, and tempted by an offer of free access to live games for the month of April, I downloaded the MLB.com At Bat app for the iPad.
The free live baseball broadcasts are sponsored by Volvo. However, the promotion is ... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Event Highlights: March 28 – April 2, 2011 | Good morning, Philadelphia. Opening Day for our Phillies is only four short days away.
Luckily, our calendar is pretty light on Friday allowing ample time for baseball and tech fun. This week: help rebuild Japan, help your doctor get a smar... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Live MLB and NBA games come to Apple TV via software update | reader comments 56 with 51 posters participating, including story author
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Sports fans can now get their baseball and basketball fix directly from an Apple TV. On Wednesday, ... |
| Nov 12, 2010 | 10 Cents a Tweet: How to Turn the Data-Driven Web into Donations | With Thanksgiving and the holidays right around the corner, the urge to give may be welling up inside. Also welling up may be the laziness that comes with the cold, grey winter months, but don’t let that stop you – giving can be as simple a... |
| Oct 31, 2010 | Tweets are the No. 1 baseball stat on MLB.com | More important than RBI (runs batted in) are the number of Twitter posts streaming in
For a game that's driven by statistics and puts stats on a pedestal, it's quite peculiar that Tweets per game has become Major League Baseball's statistic... |
| Oct 29, 2010 | MLB's TagOramic Lets You Stare Into The Face Of Each And Every Fan At The World Series | Were you lucky enough to attend one of the MLB playoff games this month? Then you’ll want to check out TagOramic, a nifty feature on MLB.com that was built to celebrate the Fall Classic. Over the course of the playoffs, MLB has taken some a... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Phils’ Victorino a candidate for Roberto Clemente award | Maui’s Shane Victorino, an All-Star centerfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies, is the team’s nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award and he’ll need fan votes to claim the national award.
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| Jun 21, 2010 | The Internet IS a Series of Tubes: Real-Time Mapping of the London Underground | Two of our favorite topics to geek out over here at ReadWriteWeb are the real-time Web and the Internet of Things. Today, we (like everyone else across the Internet, it seems) ran into a rather nifty looking website that merges those two re... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | Tweeting from the field: Sports meet social media | reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating
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| Aug 12, 2009 | Boxee Secures $6 Million Funding Round – Gets Ready to Take Over the Living Room | Boxee just announced that the company has closed a $6 million Series B financing round led by Boston-based General Catalyst with participation by prior investors Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Neil Sequeira from General Catalyst w... |
| Jul 4, 2009 | Freemium and Freeconomics | This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times (John Gapper). I'd like to talk a bit about the firestorm that freeconomics (fed by Chris' book) has unlea... |
| Jul 3, 2009 | Freemium and freakonomics | Free gets you to a place where you can ask to get paid
This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times (John Gapper). I'd like to talk a bit about the fir... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | A Bunch Of New Stuff From Boxee | Image via CrunchBase
Our portfolio company Boxee is announcing a bunch of new stuff tonight (Tues night) in San Francisco. I blogged about this event last week and I hope some of you were able to attend as I could not. Here's some of the hi... |
| Jun 4, 2009 | Hey There! Tony La Russa Is Suing Twitter. | It’s an unlikely relationship, but Twitter and sports have gotten along quite nicely over the past few months. We all know about Shaq tweeting, and perhaps you even heard about the players tweeting during halftime of games. And if you watch... |
| Apr 13, 2009 | Five Hot Prospects on the UW Faculty, from Engineering Dean Matt O’Donnell | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is the time of year when I look for hot young prospects for my fantasy baseball team. Maybe that’s why it seemed natural to think of Matt O’Donnell, the dean of the Unive... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | MLB disses Silverlight, makes a deal with Adobe for Flash video | In a last-minute trade that leaves Microsoft without its lead-off pitcher, Major League Baseball announced this morning it has signed a two-year deal with Adobe that will mean its online video app moves back to Flash.
It was Bill Gates hims... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | For one day only, Taco Bell will make your stomach hurt for free! | Hey everybody – this is just a friendly reminder that, thanks to Jason Bartlett’s stolen base in Game 1 of the World Series, Taco Bell is giving away free tacos today. The only thing better than paying 69 cents for a taco which cost 9 cents... |
| Apr 12, 2008 | MLB.TV: How Not to Handle Video Online | Take a look at next-generation video sites like Hulu and Joost. It's encouraging to see engineers raising the bar for the experience of watching television online.
Then there is that tireless standard bearer for lowering the bar: MLB.TV. Th... |
| Dec 14, 2007 | Are Sprint And Clearwire Getting Back Together Over WiMax? | A month ago, we noted that the end of Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMax partnership was bad news for just about everyone involved. Almost no one could come up with a good reason for Sprint and Clearwire to end the partnership — and now it appear... |
| Sep 5, 2007 | Roundup: Facebook search; Business 2.0 folds; Silverlight launches; and more | Here’s the latest action:
Facebook to launch people search in one month — Facebook will let search engines find and display very basic information from your Facebook profile, including only your name and the option to message you or friend ... |
| Jul 9, 2006 | Whither Television Programming? | As a follow up to our previous post on TV network activity on the Internet and through iTunes, we’ve further explored television programming and how it’s playing out on the web beyond the major networks.
I will steer clear of yahoo, google,... |
| Lee tosses third straight shutout | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia’s Cliff Lee and catcher Carlos Ruiz had reason to celebrate after their game Tuesday. Lee’s two-hitter beat the Boston Red Sox and their ace, Josh Beckett. It was Lee’s third consecutive shutout and his fourth ... |
| MLB says Oakland A’s can explore new markets, but it’s not clear where they’d go | Major League Baseball said the franchise could start to explore options to seek a new home as city officials contemplate a new stadium on an Oakland waterfront property.
But it could be playing a game of liar’s dice with the city, which is ... |