3/10: Inquirer on Bullpen Capital's Martino; DirecTV’s regional sports fees vary wildly, even in Philly?




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Paul who? He's a Silicon Valley standout who came home to help Philly start-ups (Philly.com)

Dodgers' Boehly Leads $100 Million DraftKings Investment (Bloomberg)
Big thing for Paul Martino's (see article above) FanDuel investment, as FanDuel is slated to merge with DraftKings once regulatory approval is gained. (Its important that a dangerous monopoly not be formed, I suppose.)

Dan Primack reports in Pro Rata that FanDuel is separately raising a round.

Comcast Ventures is also an investor in New York-based FanDuel.



Google’s uncomfortable turn as enterprise IT vendor (Architecht)

Amazon Eyes Access to the Cable Box (Multichannel News)

DirecTV’s regional sports fees vary wildly, nonsensically, by ZIP code (Ars Technica)

"Philadelphia ranged from $0 to $5.83, which was odd because DirecTV doesn't carry Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia."

"'The strangest DirecTV fee pattern we found was in the heart of Center City Philly, where two small ZIP codes with $0 fees are sandwiched between two ZIPs with $4.83 fees,' Consumerist writer Chris Morran reported."

NCTA partnering with CableLabs for scaled-down April invite-only event in D.C.
(FierceCable)

Verizon Ventures and R/GA partner to launch a digital media “venture studio” (TechCrunch)
Perhaps it will turn out something like go90.


And the winner is? Who took home life sciences industry awards last night (Philadelphia Business Journal)

AlphaPoint Completes Blockchain Trial With Scotiabank (Nasdaq.com)



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