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Watercooler Raises $5.5 Million For Social Games
Watercooler has raised $5.5 million in a second round of funding led by British online betting site Betfair to further its push into social fantasy sports games. Existing investor Canaan Partners also participated in the round. Watercooler says its platform—which includes hundreds of sports and TV related fan apps...
Tags: Fantasy Sport, Canaan Partners, Watercooler, Games, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Community, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-10-26

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Watercooler Raises $5.5M More for Sports-Themed Social Games
Sports application developer Watercooler has raised a second round of funding, as it continues its push into sports-themed social games. The $5.5 million round was led by strategic investor Betfair, a United Kingdom-based conglomerate that runs a variety of sports betting services around the world. Previously, the company had raised...
Tags: company, Betfair, Canaan Partners
News items 2009-10-26
Albert pleads to assault charges: sportscaster then is fired by NBC, quits MSG job.(Marv Albert)(Brief Article)
The Mary Albert case dominated watercooler talk around the country last week as fans expressed disbelief that the sportscaster they loved--and thought they knew--could be guilty of such sordid behavior. Those in the industry speculated whether he' The Mary Albert case dominated watercooler...
Tags: job, NBC Universal Inc.
Research articles 1997-09-29
Heat Index; WEEKLY RATING (0-10) OF SIZZLE & FIZZLE.(Google Inc.'s share price)(CBS Broadcasting Inc. sues Howard Stern Productions)(National Broadcasting Company Inc.'s audience ratings)(Brief Article)
10 LAWYERS CBS sues Howard Stern (see Watercooler, above), while Jessica Alba sues Playboy for putting her on the cover against her wishes, a week after former Men's Journal Editor in Chief Michael Caruso sues Wenner Media. It's good to be a litigato 10 LAWYERS CBS...
Tags: Google Inc.
Research articles 2006-03-06
TV Guide Magazine's Signature 'Cheers & Jeers' Content Franchise Has Extended Across Platforms to TVGuide.com and TV Guide Network
NEW YORK -- "Cheers & Jeers," TV Guide magazine's popular weekly opinion column, famous for bestowing its unique seal of approval or disapproval on what's happening on television, has expanded to TVGuide.com, with an interactive daily blog, and to TV Guide Network, with recurring segments on TV Watercooler.
Tags: network, TV Guide
Research articles 2007-11-19
Sprint Text Poll to Determine Favorite Halftime Show Song; Each Wireless Vote Yields $1 for Boys & Girls Clubs of America
RESTON, Va. -- More than likely, a majority of this week's "watercooler conversations" will revolve around Super Bowl XL - such as, "Which Super Bowl XL Halftime Show song was your favorite?"
Tags: Sprint Communications, wireless
Research articles 2006-02-06
Atlanta Braves "Superfans" Go Online to Build Fan Support with Help from Facebook and Watercooler
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- It's not everyday that you run into two Atlanta Braves fans who have gone online in order to build a better fan community in the real world, but that's exactly what Andrew Roden and Grant Crowe are doing.
Tags: Facebook
Research articles 2008-03-11
Watercooler chatter alive and well, with less face time, more Facebook; SHOP TALK: Employees 'some of the best viral marketers out there'.(Business of Life)
Byline: ANDREW HAMPP Byline: ANDREW HAMPP
Tags: Facebook
Research articles 2007-03-05
TV Guide Channel's New Original Series, ''TV Watercooler,'' Premieres Monday, January 23
LOS ANGELES -- Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMST)
Tags: TV, TV Guide
Research articles 2006-01-10
TV Guide Channel® Signs Popular Radio Personality and Emmy®-Nominated TV Host Teresa Strasser
-- Strasser Will Co-Host TV WATERCOOLER, TV Guide Channel's Quick-Witted, Comedic Dish on TV News and Pop Culture Every Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT --
Tags: radio, TV, TV Guide
Research articles 2006-10-04
AT&T Invites Small Businesses to Gather around 'The Watercooler' to Maintain a Competitive Edge
AT&T Small Business Web Portal to Host Live Online Discussion About How to Differentiate and Stay Ahead of the Competition
Tags: AT&T Corp., small business
Research articles 2007-10-25
TV Guide Channel Offers 'Johnny Drama' of 'Entourage' a Job as Guest Host of TV WATERCOOLER…
"Johnny Drama" of HBO's Hit Series 'Entourage' Has the Opportunity to Finally Work and Showcase His Abilities to Hollywood...
Tags: job, TV, TV Guide
Research articles 2006-07-19
Myths and Risks of Social Networking
Myths and Risks of Social Networkingnot entirely trueTime sucking isn't a myth. It's a reality. Frankly, many people suck at managing time in their offline lives. Online social networks exacerbate the problem and make it easier to mismanage time by turning the Internet into on giant watercooler.Sites such a Facebook...
Tags: NETWORKING, social networking, network
Discussion threads 2008-09-11
We Won't Be Back After These Messages
There is a silence around the watercooler these days. A few grumbles about the weather, a little talk about the big game, but no one, absolutely no one is talking about their tech stocks. In fact, as portfolios have withered, the national obsession with all things financial has begun to...
Tags: CNBC, CNNfn, FINANCE, financial, Investment, network, NETWORKING, programming, stock, TV
Research articles 2001-04-16
New point guard may be nearby
Now that John Stockton has retired, watercooler conversation swirls around the question of who will replace the NBA's all-time assists and steals leader as the Jazz's starting point guard. Jazz owner Larry H. Miller hears the talk from his executive office and does what he can to douse...
Tags: agent, guard, Miller, NBA
Research articles 2003-05-11
The Election on TV
THE day after the 1997 general election, square-eyed workers asked colleagues the question that would come to symbolise the Tory rout: "Were you still up for Portillo?" Four years on, the UK map remains red but the watercooler question has changed. "Did you see Mandelson?" we ask in breathless disbelief....
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, TVs
Research articles 2001-06-10
E!, Cassaro take entrepreneurial approach. (David T. Cassaro)(Column)
Drawn to unorthodox creative challenges, Dave Cassaro is in his element as head of ad sales for E! Entertainment Television, the cable industry's hip, irreverent channel that serves as television's 24-hour electronic watercooler for entertainment news and industry gossip. Right out of Marist...
Tags: ABC Inc., advertisement, Cable, CBS Corp., entertainment, entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, SALES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 1995-05-22
Is Fox doing the business?(Fox News Network L.L.C.)
Byline: Claire Atkinson First the London Times is coming to New York, and now Watercooler hears Fox News Business Channel is getting closer to launch. One Fox insider says carriage deals are more or less in place with the main cable operators and with...
Tags: DirecTV, FINANCE, negotiation, News Corp., spokesman, Time Warner Cable Inc., TVs
Research articles 2006-06-05
Queen of the small screen.(Survey)
Byline: Ann Marie Kerwin Watercooler has had its obsessions this year, we admit it. The various scandals and chair-swappings of TV personalities are like catnip to us: Katie Couric, Dan Rather, Star Jones, Rosie O'Donnell, Charlie Gibson, Diane Sawyer. So imagine how delighted we...
Tags: Gallup, NBC Universal Inc., obsession, survey, TVs
Research articles 2006-08-14
Some spinoffs we'd like to see.(Television broadcasting industry)
Byline: Ann Marie Kerwin Broadcast-TV development meetings are just a few weeks away, which means executives and producers are racking their brains for the next big prime-time hit. Over at ABC, the thinking appears to be that it's safest to bet on what you...
Tags: ABC Inc., broadcasting, MARKETING, Strategy, TV
Research articles 2007-02-26
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