Corey Gottlieb, vice president of new media and content at DraftKings.
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DK Live helps DraftKings move into live news for fantasy sports

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Move over, ESPN. DraftKings has launched a new sports news and data app for its core fantasy sports fans. It’s one of the ways that the company plans to keep growing even as the fever pitch for daily fantasy sports comes back down to Earth in the wake of various legal challenges over whether in constitutes illegal gambling.

The app is a one-stop shop for NFL and fantasy sports data, with real-time feeds that the fantasy sports enthusiasts crave. Corey Gottlieb, vice president of new media and content, demoed the app at the Techcrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco on Monday. Boston-based DraftKings recently raised $150 million from Revolution Capital to fuel its expansion.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.