Score Media acquires rival sports app SportsTap

Interactive sports programming provider Score Media acquired free smartphone application SportsTap, a move that increases its global monthly unique mobile userbase to over 3 million. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The ad-supported SportsTap app touts detailed box scores, in-depth team and player statistics and related news and information spanning the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, Nascar and all other major sporting leagues. SportsTap is currently the third most popular free sports app in Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android Market, behind Score Media's own ScoreMobile--Score adds that the combined monthly audience of the two apps would trail only ESPN and Yahoo, and ahead of competitors Fox and CBS.

Score Media said it will continue offering SportsTap as a standalone application. In addition to ScoreMobile and SportsTap, the company's portfolio of smartphone apps also includes ScoreMobile FC and theScore iPad Edition.

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