The recent debut of soccer legend Lionel Messi in Major League Soccer (MLS) with Inter Miami CF has caused a buzz worldwide — and a surge in subscriptions for MLS Season Pass, a streaming service exclusively launched with Apple. The service gained 110,000 subscribers on the day of Messi’s debut with the team...
More than one million fans are expected to travel to Qatar for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 as the so-called “beautiful game’s” biggest stage kicks off this Sunday (Nov. 20). But for all the hype and buzz leading up to the event, a giant unexpected buzzkill...
Upland, a mirror metaverse that replicates real-world locations in virtual reality announced on Wednesday (Nov. 11) that it has begun a multiyear partnership with FIFA that will start with the launch of a World Cup village in Upland’s Qatar to celebrate the Qatar 2022 World...
Video game retailer and cryptocurrency booster GameStop’s non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace has gone live on the gaming-focused Ethereum layer-2 blockchain ImmutableX, with collections based on games including “Gods Unchained,” a Web3 digital fantasy card game from a former game director of “Magic: The Gathering.” The...
November 29, 2019
Valuations are high. Not just in the stock market. Pretty much everywhere you might look. And as investors look across various asset classes, might the gaze be sweeping across eCommerce, FinTechs, maybe even bricks and mortar (sorry, WeWork) … to kicks and scorers? In an age where private equity has seen the trials and tribulations […]
September 05, 2023
The recent debut of soccer legend Lionel Messi in Major League Soccer (MLS) with Inter Miami CF has caused a buzz worldwide — and a surge in subscriptions for MLS Season Pass, a streaming service exclusively launched with Apple. The service gained 110,000 subscribers on the day of Messi’s debut with the team — a figure nearly three times that seen on the […]
November 09, 2022
Upland, a mirror metaverse that replicates real-world locations in virtual reality announced on Wednesday (Nov. 11) that it has begun a multiyear partnership with FIFA that will start with the...
September 26, 2022
Soccer fans can score points while learning more about personal finance with a new version of a soccer video game from Visa being released just as momentum is beginning to...
February 13, 2020
Circle Invest will be sold to Canada-based Voyager Digital by its current owner Circle Internet Financial, with Circle Invest gaining an equity stake in Voyager as a result. Common shares...
