Scrolling through a TV guide or surfing around the web to find out which channel, radio station, or website is best to follow your favorite team can be a time-consuming process. Now Turner Sports wants to help. The cable giant today unveiled Catch Sports, a new app for iOS and Android helps you quickly find which TV, radio, or streaming options are available for live sports. The app lets you set your TV provider to see exactly where the game is being shown. It also provides live scores and allows users to set their favorite teams. In addition to the smartphone app, Turner today… Read More
Amazon’s fashion ambitions may be expanding as the company appears to be preparing to produce its own line of workout clothes. Amazon posted a trio of job listings in late December for brand managers and senior brand managers working on “Amazon Active Apparel.” The listings, first spotted by Recode, indicate that Amazon is just getting started in this business as most of the duties relate to creating strategies for a stable of private label activewear brands to succeed. “The candidate will collaborate with leadership to build authentic activewear private label brands that have compelling and unique DNA and deliver amazing consumer… Read More
LAS VEGAS — A revolutionary immersive fishing experience. That was the bait that got me — a novice fisherman whose pulled in a few halibut and salmon over the years — to stop by the booth of PowerVision at Tuesday night’s CES Unveiled. The maker of an underwater drone and fish detection system certainly was one of the more novel products on a show floor filled with unusual and bizarre concepts. The idea behind the PowerRay? Use an underwater drone to catch fish, and have fun watching the action below the surface like never before. The drone also comes with an… Read More
Twitter is happy with how the company’s NFL live streaming product performed this season, but it remains to be seen if the league will continue airing games on the social media platform. Millions of football fans around the world had a new, free option for streaming NFL games this season thanks to Twitter after the company paid the NFL a reported $10 million to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games this season. Last month’s battle between the Giants and Eagles marked the final game of this season streamed on Twitter. The partnership started off with the Jets vs. Bills game in September without many latency issues and to generally positive… Read More
Tennis legend Serena Williams shared the news of her engagement to Alexis Ohanian on (where else?) the platform he co-created. Using her verified Reddit account, Williams shared a post entitled “I said yes” with a cartoon of her and Ohanian and the following poem about how the proposal went down. I came home A little late Someone had a bag packed for me And a carriage awaited Destination: Rome To escort me to my very own “charming” Back to where our stars first collided And now it was full circle At the same table we first met by chance This time… Read More
