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Tech firms are capitalizing on cord-cutting by ramping up original content and striking new deals to stream live sports. Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) won the first NFL contract to stream "Thursday Night Football," a deal now owned by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Twitch, which also...

Just when it seemed like radio-format shows were a dying form of communication, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) came along and added support for podcasts to iTunes, breathing new life into the lungs of this struggling genre. Apple didn't invent the concept of podcasts, but it made it mainstream....

Print is dead. Long live content. At a time when Internet news portals are exploiting all the video and graphic-driven gimmicks at their disposal, a startup called The Athletic is a local, subscription-based news service that - wait for it - focuses on quality reporting. With no ads. The Athletic...

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA)'s NBC Sports Group on Monday announced they have agreed to renew their partnership. As part of the agreement, the two companies collaborated together to deliver content on Yahoo Sports. Specifically, NBC provided video...

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) scored a big Hail Mary on Wednesday. The web giant and the National Football League announced that Yahoo will exclusively live stream the Buffalo Bills-Jacksonville Jaguars game in London on October 25. According to a release on NFL.com, the game "will be made available...

The state that voted the biggest action movie star ever its governor and whose capital city's mayor-ship is in the hands of a former NBA all-star may have its once sad-sack franchise open for bidding. The fun is just beginning. Donald Sterling will soon be out. That's the plan NBA...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is just three months into his job, but has already set a precedent that could define him for a lifetime. "I will urge the board of governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team," said Silver on Tuesday afternoon. Following the league'...

Kara Swisher at allthingsd.com has the scoop on major meetings that are scheduled at Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) for Tuesday, where Marissa Mayer is set to unveil her plans for turning the struggling internet company around. Swisher writes that "According to an internal memo Mayer sent out Friday, the...