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MUMBAI:  Esports media platform TalkEsport announced Wednesday the successful closure of its pre-series A funding round, securing an investment of $1 million from Saswat Ventures. 

The investment underscores TalkEsport’s robust growth trajectory and reaffirms its position as a pioneering force in the esports industry.

Oct 05, 2020 12:10
PARIS: Four years ahead of the Games, global telecommunications major Orange has become third premium partner and official supplier to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to French newspaper Le Parisien, Orange’s investment in the partnership will total a whopping €144 million ($167 million).
Oct 02, 2020 11:10
MELBOURNE: Channel Seven has paid the A$10 million it owed Cricket Australia just days before the high-stakes feud between the game and the network heads to arbitration, reported The Brisbane Times.
Oct 01, 2020 20:10
NEW DELHI: Two months after Lex Sportel Vision Pvt Ltd reportedly won a favourable court ruling in Sri Lanka over rights to the DSport mark in its long-running legal dispute with Discovery Communications, the American media conglomerate declared Thursday that the High Court of Colombo had dismissed LSV's "interim application".  
Oct 01, 2020 17:10
MUMBAI: The ongoing Indian Premier League 2020 logged 269 million viewers and witnessed a 15% growth in viewing minutes as compared to 2019, data points culled from the BARC-Nielsen Edition 12 – IPL 2020 report, which focuses on television viewership and smartphone trends for the first week of IPL-13, show. 
Oct 01, 2020 17:10
MUMBAI: Skechers, the global sports and lifestyle brand based in California, is launching a new campaign featuring Gully Boy actor Siddhant Chaturvedi, who will be the first Indian brand ambassador for Skechers and will represent both lifestyle and performance collections.
Oct 01, 2020 12:10
FOOD DELIVERY tech companies Zomato and Swiggy received notices from Google for violating its Play Store policies.  The two companies had been promoting cashback schemes through fantasy sports features.
Sep 30, 2020 17:09
MUMBAI: Cricketer MS Dhoni, whose production company Dhoni Entertainment Pvt Ltd launched its first documentary web series ‘Roar of The Lion’ last year, is set to launch its second show after having acquired the rights of an unpublished book. Dhoni's wife Sakshi, who serves as the managing director of the production house, confirmed to Mid-Day that the show would soon launch on an OTT platform.
Sep 30, 2020 14:09
RENO, Nev.: Caesars Entertainment, Inc. and William Hill PLC announced Wednesday that they have agreed terms wherein the US casino operator will acquire the British bookmaker for approximately £2.9 billion ($3.72 billion). 
Sep 29, 2020 19:09
MUMBAI: TAM Sports has released the TAM AdEx Sports - IPL 13 Advertising Report, which has analysed data from the first four games of this year's 13th edition of the Indian Premier League and how it compares with IPL 12.    As per the report, the Top 5 categories were dominated by 'E-commerce' sector' and accounted for more than 40% share of Ad Volumes during first 4 matches of IPL 13.
Sep 29, 2020 18:09
MUMBAI: Indian Premier League 2020 title sponsor Dream11 has declared that players from Andhra Pradesh and five other states will not be able to "join" paid contests on India's leading online fantasy gaming platform.