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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...

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...

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...