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NumberFire Pockets $750K To Help You Rule Your Fantasy Sports Leagues
Back in September, we wrote about numberFire, a New York City-based startup that’s attempting to bring a deep, scientific approach to your fantasy football picks. At the time, the startup was...
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A Fantasy App Store? CBS Sports To Launch “First Open Platform” For Fantasy...
Fantasy sports, just like everything else, have also been making the transition to mobile, with news aggregating apps turning to fantasy sports (a la Taptu, Evri, and more). But few of the big media...
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StarStreet Launches A Daily Fantasy Sports Game That Turns Athletes Into Stocks
You may remember StarStreet from last year’s launch – it’s the TechStars and SV Angel-backed sports investing game that turns fantasy sports into a stock market system where you build up portfolios of...
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Hands On With The Seven Best Fantasy Football Sites And Apps
With the NFL season just a week away, fans are poring over stats, trash talking their friends, and gearing up for the real season: fantasy football. Here are the coolest and most useful places to play...
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Siri 2.0? Skyphrase Wants To Make Data More Accessible With Natural Language,...
With an increasing number of commercial applications relying on its technology, natural language processing (NLP) has started to come into its own of late. After years of research and experimentation,...
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IAC-Backed Skyllzone Launches A New Fantasy Sports App That Lets You Play...
Spurred on by its entry into the digital and mobile age, the fantasy sports world is booming. From the fact that a hilarious and increasingly popular show based on fantasy sports is about to enter its...
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FanDuel Strikes Strategic Deal With NBA To Be Its 1-Day Fantasy Games Partner
Fantasy sports is a huge business, and the fastest growing segment is one-day fantasy gaming. As that part has grown, sports leagues are taking notice and looking to get in on the trend. With that in...
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Do Fantasy Sports Spell The End Of Corruption In Athletics?
Sport is about triumph, passion, pain and belonging. Yet it loses every iota of truth and meaning for fans when dirty money corrupts the players and referees. Unfortunately, in 2015, it’s hard to...
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NY State Rules Daily Fantasy Illegal, Ordering FanDuel And DraftKings To Stop...
Today, the NY Attorney General dropped a bomb on daily fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings. Sites like them have been categorized as “illegal gambling sites” and have ordered them to...
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Texas Attorney General Says Texans Using DraftKings Or FanDuel Are Probably...
In a situation nearly identical to what happened in Illinois a few weeks ago, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has responded to a request from a state representative who asked if Paxton believes...
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DraftKings And FanDuel Lose A Payment Processor
Update: Title changed to reflect that FanDuel does not use Vantiv for payouts, and offers additional deposit methods besides Vantiv processing. Daily Fantasy Sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel...
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Fox Marks Down Its DraftKings Investment By 60 Percent
Twenty-First Century Fox, which invested $160M in DraftKings over the summer, has written down the investment by about 60 percent, according to its 10-Q filed today. Specifically, Fox noted that...
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Virginia’s governor just signed the nation’s first daily fantasy sports law
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe just signed into law the “Fantasy Contests Act,” which is a legal framework for fantasy sports providers that operate in the state. The bill, which was approved by...
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New fantasy sports app SportsHero raises $2.4M ahead of planned Australia IPO
SportsHero is a new app that lets sports fans dabble in match predictions and show their skills off against friends and other game-watchers. The app is made by the team behind Singapore-based...
View ArticleDraftKings CEO Jason Robins on the future of fantasy sports
On early Saturday morning New York’s state assembly passed legislation legalizing daily fantasy sports throughout the state. The move was huge for the industry, as it means companies like DraftKings...
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Silicon Valley’s favorite fixer: Bradley Tusk
Tusk made his bones in Silicon Valley through advising Uber, which paid him in equity for his services while still a Series A company, dramatically boosting Tusk’s net worth (he says he hasn’t sold...
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DraftKings CEO Jason Robins will talk daily fantasy sports at Disrupt SF
Anyone who is interested in sports knows that daily fantasy sports has became the next big thing. And leading the charge is DraftKings, a four-year old technology company that has already raised over...
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New York Governor signs daily fantasy sports bill, DraftKings and FanDuel can...
Back in June, on the last day of the New York Assembly’s legislative session, the state passed a bill legalizing daily fantasy sports, paving the road for the return of incumbents DraftKings and...
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DraftKings launches Leagues so you can play daily fantasy sports with friends
DraftKings has been in the news a lot over the last 12 months. But almost everything you’ve read has probably been about their efforts in passing legislation to explicitly legalize daily fantasy...
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ESPN’s fantasy football site isn’t working on the most important day of the...
Update: Service has been restored and ESPN provided us with the following statement: “ESPN Fantasy is restored and we will continue to monitor. We identified a backend data access issue and resolved...
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