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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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Last June, Niantic laid off 8% of its staff — about 85 to 90 people — and canceled four of its projects, including a Transformers game that had already entered beta testing. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture? As a sports ignoramus, I can’t speak on the former point.

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LaLiga transforms fan experience with AI

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IT is playing a key role in how the world’s most popular sport is played and experienced in Spain. The transformation, which started in partnership with Microsoft in 2016, is also enabling LaLiga to expand its business by offering technology platforms and services to the sports and entertainment industry at large.

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Unveiling Zephyr for Jira: Simplifying Test Management in Your Software Projects

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Introduction: Welcome to the realm of efficient software testing, where managing tests seamlessly is as crucial as writing code itself. In this blog post, we’ll explore a powerful ally in the world of test management — Zephyr for Jira. This integration ensures that your testing efforts align with the overall project goals.

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Sydney-based startup Upflowy raises $4M to optimize web experiences with its no-code solution

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Upflowy thinks it has the tools to help businesses generate high-performing user flow. Upflowy’s data visualization and A/B testing interface mean that understanding their customers’ drop-off and behavior becomes a lot clearer, paving the way for experimentation and optimization.”.

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The team behind Jumpcut and SnappyTV is building a new collaborative video tool

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We can now build performant, feature rich applications integrated with the fabric of the web.” Since they’re still developing and testing the product, I didn’t get a chance to try Scenery for myself, but I got on a call with Folgner and Petrosian to discuss their plans. Tensil has raised $3.89 Tensil has raised $3.89

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Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion

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Christine reports that the low-flying, Boston-based venture outfit just tripled the size of its second fund to $150 million thanks to its approach of investing in sports technologies with the help of its community of athlete backers who help promote and grow the portfolio companies. It issued a final order to Meta for it to sell Giphy.

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Discord’s reported $10B exit; Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications set IPO price ranges

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Discord is a well-financed unicorn that has raised oodles of capital and reportedly sports rapidly expanding revenues. Does it line up with its recent financial performance ? Our goal will be to vet whether the price tag in question makes any sense, or if it is too low. Is its resulting valuation strong?

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