10 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, FSTA, Fantasy Sports, Marketing, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Technology, Yahoo!, press releases
Announcing Baseball Boss - Game Combines Trading Cards with Fantasy Sports - Interesting concept, we’ll review the site in a separate full post shortly.
Fantasy Sports Industry Grows to a $800 Million Industry With 29.9 Million Players - We previewed this story for you on Tuesday, but here is the press release. Impressive growth indeed.
Yahoo Opens […]
04 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Media, News, Social Media, Video Games, Yahoo!, press releases
Interesting stories we’re following for you on Wednesday, June 4, 2008:
Electronic Arts buys ThreeSF for undisclosed sum - The video game company makes an interesting move and acquires a social network, we’ll find out more about this deal soon.
NBA Finals By the Numbers - These numbers show the extent of the reach basketball has in […]
06 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, ESPN, Facebook, Fantasy Football, Media, News, Social Media, Technology, Yahoo!
In a move designed to bring in more traffic to its own website, Sports Illustrated is teaming up with Citizen Sports, Inc. to provide a fantasy football league application to Facebook starting in July. SI has very rudimentary fantasy sports league features as part of their FanNation portion of the site. But SI has lagged […]
05 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Streaming Games, Virtual Sports, Yahoo!
Check out these stories for the top of your week:
Now that Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo! is over, what next? - Lots of things, but it will be interesting to see how the Yahoo! Open platform is unveiled.
Ibeatyou is off to the races and on to the social networks - The competition-based site has announced […]
02 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Facebook, Fantasy Sports, General, MLB, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Technology, Yahoo!
Here are some interesting stories for today:
Watercooler’s SN Apps for Fans Backed by $4M - Connecting fan communities through your favorite social networks.
Yahoo Goes Full Steam Ahead With ‘open’ Strategy - Now that their “Open Strategy” has been announced, Yahoo! is moving quickly to establish it.
U.S. sports dispute “white space” airwaves plan - Several major […]
30 Apr
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Business, ESPN, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Technology, Yahoo!, press releases
Here are stories of interest for today, April 30, 2008:
Let Em Play - ESPN The Magazine’s cover story on aspiring athletes who have prosthetic limbs.
Is Yahoo`s Social Platform Too Little, Too Late? - A different perspective on a story we’ve been covering here at Fantasy Sports 2.0; this story questions the timing of the move […]