Canada's largest national newspaper features Live Current

Posted by Adam Rabiner

The Globe and Mail today has a feature article about Live Current, "Perfect pitch scores a deal for B.C. firm":

Geoffrey Hampson didn't know what to expect when he arrived in the conference room of the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London last February. He and a colleague had flown in to meet India's cricket czar, Lalit Modi, the 45-year-old scion of a billionaire family who'd recently spearheaded the founding of a professional league — a kind of NHL or NBA of cricket.

Mr. Hampson, chief executive officer of Live Current Media, a Vancouver-based website developer, had an hour to persuade Mr. Modi that he should sell the Web rights to the Indian Premier League (IPL) to Mr. Hampson's 30-person firm rather than to one of the global media giants that Mr. Modi had short-listed for bids.

Read the full article HERE.

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UPDATE: Live Current CEO Geoff Hampson will be online at the Globeandmail.com on Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern to take your questions. To submit your question, click HERE.


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