Malaysia Forms A National eSports Organization
January 24th, 2015
Via Daily Dot, a report on one nation’s national focus on eSports: On Jan. 28, one Southeast Asian country will officially recognize esports on the same level as traditional sports like soccer and badminton. The Malaysian government announced the formation of e-Sports Malaysia (eSM) earlier today. The new group is an official organization under the Malaysian […]
Read more »US Fantasy Sports Remain A Gamble
January 17th, 2015
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on the growing popularity of this legal online betting niche: Killian Jones watched the lucrative online gaming market emerge as a UK equities analyst in the late 2000s, then decided to try it himself, ploughing his life savings into a start-up offering daily fantasy sports games, a […]
Read more »Daily Fantasy MMA May Quickly Outgrow Mainstream Sports Offerings
December 24th, 2014
Via Forbes, some insight into the emergence of fantasy MMA: Daily fantasy sports operations typically focus their services on the major professional American sports: football, baseball, basketball and hockey. However, other mainstream sports are beginning to capture the attention of corporate entities entrenched in the world of fantasy. The sport outside of the “Big Four” […]
Read more »SynCurrency: The Startup Meant To Reinvent What Bitcoin Can Do
December 22nd, 2014
Via Technology Review, an interesting look at an effort by by leading Silicon Valley investors to extend Bitcoin’s functionality so it can power much more than just payments: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman announced an unusual new investment late last month. He and other Silicon Valley luminaries, including Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla, sunk $21 million […]
Read more »The Multibillion-Dollar Industry Of American Fantasy Sports
December 20th, 2014
Via Quartz, a insightful look at the world of fantasy sports: A real part of your fantasy game. Over the past two decades or so, a cultural phenomenon has taken hold in America. It involves grown men and women pretending to be the owners of imaginary professional sports teams on the internet. It is known […]
Read more »Bitcoin: The Next Internet?
December 18th, 2014
Via Vox, an interesting commentary on how the crypto-currency can thrive as a global payment system, even if it fails as a currency: The markets haven’t been kind to Bitcoin in 2014. The currency reached a high of nearly $1,000 in January before falling to around $350 this month, a plunge of more than 60 […]
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