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‘It just has to work’: Ahead of Black Friday NFL game, Amazon shows how it’s perfected live sports

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(Amazon Photo / Cooper Neill) While millions of Americans think of Black Friday as a prime day to launch their holiday shopping, Prime Video will be focused on yet another live sporting event, streaming today’s NFL game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders. 15 boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.

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The Special Olympics embarks on digital journey to empower its athletes

CIO Business Intelligence

The more we can move that process out to the cloud, enable the end users to own and be empowered to manage themselves and their own data, the more we can reduce the amount of time and effort on our programs and get more people out onto the field and playing.

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Report: Amazon planning standalone app for sports content

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Amazon’s desire to stream more live sports has the company looking at launching a standalone app for such content, according to a report Wednesday in The Information. The company uses sports in a bid to grow its content library, bolster its advertising arm, and add more Prime subscribers who buy products on its marketplace.

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Sports Illustrated publisher Maven raises $24M to help Seattle media tech startup expand

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Maven , the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, raised an additional $24 million to help fuel expansion and reduce its debt. Licensing firm Authentic Brands Group, which bought Sports Illustrated in May 2019 from Meredith Corp., Maven CEO Ross Levinsohn. Maven Photo). It landed a $5.7

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Amazon bets big on sports streaming in bid to boost Prime memberships, advertising revenue

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(Amazon Photo / Cooper Neill) When Charlie Neiman arrived at Amazon in 2016, the company had never streamed a live event, let alone live sports. Fast forward eight years later, and Amazon has emerged as a leader in the burgeoning sports streaming world. Live sports remains one of the most-watched telecasts. million viewers.

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Jeff Bezos joins Drake, NBA stars and others in $80M backing of Overtime sports media brand

GeekWire

Jeff Bezos is among the investors taking part in an $80 million funding round in Overtime , a sports media brand with plans to launch a new basketball league for elite high school players. Overtime plans to use the cash to further expand, branching into NFTs and trading cards and investing more in its sports app.

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How AI is helping the NFL improve player safety

CIO Business Intelligence

Like many other professional sports leagues, the NFL has been at the leading edge of data-driven transformation for years. Souza notes that this data is not only helpful for creating personalized training programs for players, but it’s also driving decision-making at the league level.

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