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Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda has today (Tuesday) completed its acquisition of the majority shareholding in the Infront Sports & Media agency.

Global IT solutions and services provider Dimension Data has announced the roll out of a landmark data platform for this year’s Tour de France, under its partnership with the event’s organiser Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO).

Eurosport CEO Peter Hutton has overseen dramatic change in just four months of stewardship of the Discovery-owned broadcaster. Matt Cutler travelled to Paris to ask him about the future ambitions of the company.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into corruption in football is unprecedented and has presented the sports marketing industry with a number of complicated questions. We canvassed industry insiders to try to answer five of the most pressing questions.

Broadcasters, event organisers and sponsors have tried and failed to crack the sporting code in India, in an attempt to reach the country’s billion-plus cricket-mad population. We hear from the insiders who have succeeded.

The CAA sports and entertainment agency has acquired corporate hospitality brands Beyond Sports & Entertainment (BSE) and Goviva as part of a move to launch a new full-service event management and marketing practice.

The English Premier League has revamped its solidarity payments system for clubs competing in the Football League as it prepares to reap the benefits of its bumper new media rights deal.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has formed new panels dedicated to the Olympic channel project and communications as part of president Thomas Bach’s ongoing reform efforts under Agenda 2020.

The skills needed to win friends and influence people on Twitter are changing as fast as the technology that promotes them. Owen Evans spoke to social media experts working at six mainstream sports media outlets to identify how they have achieved strong followings, interaction and engagement.

Video streaming apps Periscope and Meerkat offer a new and controversial way to view live sports content. Is this the start of another piracy battle, or should they be embraced to create new revenue streams? Matthew Hochberg reports.

US data company Gracenote has agreed a deal to acquire Infostrada Sports and SportsDirect in a move it states will make it the first global provider of music, video and sports data.

The Japanese government has passed a bill to create a new agency that will seek to coordinate sports administration ahead of Tokyo’s staging of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Fifa has hit out at German rights partner ARD after the public-service broadcaster aired a documentary surrounding the bidding process and preparations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar.

Sport’s major rights-holders will be watching closely this month as the European Commission (EC) unveils its attack against thegeo-blocking of media content. Owen Evans finds out what it could mean for the sale of broadcast rights going forward.

Charly Classen, ESPN’s boss for EMEA, told Elisha Chauhan why recent acquisitions for ESPN Player illustrate its successful approach to broadcasting non-premium sports content.

Delivering programming in two-minute segments, 120 Sports is a live-streaming digital platform whose rights-holder partners include the NHL (National Hockey League) and MLB (Major League Baseball).