Inside look at Yahoo’s fantasy football platform: How tech supports traffic spikes and live scoring [Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every… Read More
3 fantasy football tips from an ex-Microsoft director who just wrote a book about losing for 24 years Mike Harms hopes you can learn from his two decades of disastrous fantasy football performance. Harms, who led digital media… Read More
Fantasy football is a skill, Washington state lawmaker contends, making new push for legalization OLYMPIA, Wash. — Skill or chance: Which is it when you play fantasy football? State Sen. Doug Ericksen, R- Ferndale,… Read More
Photos: With help from NFL legend Deion Sanders, Microsoft unveils new fantasy football bot ATLANTA, GA. — Deion Sanders was probably the last celebrity guest expected to show up at Microsoft’s Ignite technology conference,… Read More
Users freak out as ESPN’s fantasy football app, website go down for hours on first day of NFL games Nope, it’s not just you — ESPN’s fantasy football app and website are down. On the first Sunday of the 2016-17… Read More
Former IGT exec launches new play-by-play prediction fantasy football game A new startup from Seattle is putting a different spin on the daily fantasy sports model with an app that… Read More
Akin to the stock market, daily fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings need regulation Hard-charging daily fantasy sports sites are suddenly embroiled in controversy that includes discussion of something akin to insider trading. While there… Read More
FlowPlay merges online poker and fantasy football with new multiplayer game FlowPlay is bringing together casual online games and fantasy sports. The Seattle-based company today unveiled a unique new game called 5… Read More
Microsoft Bing now offers fantasy football player projections, weekly advice Microsoft Bing wants to help you win your fantasy football league. Starting this season, Bing is using its prediction algorithms to project… Read More
Facebook app coming to Windows 8, along with Flipboard, NFL Fantasy Football For Facebook fans using Windows 8 devices, today brings good news. At Microsoft’s Build conference today in San Francisco, CEO Steve… Read More
NFL commish says new multi-year partnership with Microsoft will ‘change the game of football’ The nation’s most popular sport is about to get real geeky thanks in large part to technology from Microsoft. During… Read More