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Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI

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Two former Shutterstock execs, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, were working together monetizing APIs and computer vision, and having attended some of those bad events, thought there could be a better way to make decisions on what events should be at the top of the list and which company team members should go to maximize return on investment. “We

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Polychain puts its money on HotStreak to streamline sports betting using blockchain

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In the world of sports betting, instant payments and reliable custody are key to the user experience. HotStreak , a web3 platform for daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, is wagering that the decentralized nature of the blockchain makes it an ideal solution for DFS platforms. It doubled in size in 2021 with over $52.7

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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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The only team I’ve ever followed is the Cleveland Cavaliers, and that’s simply because I grew up near Cleveland (and, well, LeBron’s stardom didn’t hurt). Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture? Their in-game team members don this merch, some of which improves their game stats.

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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

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Speaking at the CIO UK 100 awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Drake explained what it meant to be ranked the top CIO in the UK , how her tennis background shaped her leadership, why automation is freeing up her IT team, and how THG is supporting engineers relocating from war-stricken Ukraine.

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Do Americans want to gamble on individual athletes? Marc Lore is betting on it

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Mojo , a seven-month-old, New York-based company, says it’s looking to build a new sports stock market that lets fans bet on athletes just like stocks. The company declined to answer our questions today, saying it’s “too early” in its trajectory.). — it will likely know exactly who its customers are.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

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After leaving the armed forces, Ben went into coaching leadership teams at corporates, including the England Football Team and Manchester United. On the surface of Loopin is the daily ‘check-in’ via Slack or Microsoft Teams. The company says it already has 40 paying customers including Reed, Farfetch and JD Sports.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

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Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. We continue to iterate and evolve our policy, but it is still in development.