article thumbnail

How Big Data Has Transformed Sports

BrainStation Technology

In a relatively short period of time, big data has become a big business in professional sports. The market for sports analytics is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2022, and teams around the world are racing to find a competitive advantage. In 2017, venerable English soccer side Lincoln City F.C.

Sport 74
article thumbnail

SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

#742 My Body, My Pixels: A Deep Dive on Digital Autonomy with Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Modern CTO

He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2006-2017 and as Editor from 2001-2002. He received his JD from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. From 2013-2017 and 2010-2014 he was among the ten most-cited faculty in the field of Commercial Law.

article thumbnail

8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

Interesting startups that our respondents mentioned include: CropSafe, SideQuest, Aflo, Material Evolution, Cloudsmith, LegitFit, Continually, Gratsi, 54 North Design, Animal Manager, Kairos Sports Tech, Budibase, Incisiv, Automated Intelligence, loyalBe, Konvi, Lane 44, Teamfeepay.com, Axial3D, Neurovalens, Payhere, and Civic Dollars.

Fintech 283
article thumbnail

At Chaos, a chaotic response to assault allegations

The Parallax

Solveig-Jalkanen is involved in several European hacker communities under the pseudonym Thomas Covenant , including SHA 2017 , Free Software Foundation Europe , and Amsterdam TechInc. If you look at the justice system, somebody is innocent until proven guilty. And then on December 26, it lifted both bans. That would help a lot.”—Dia

article thumbnail

Top 7 Gaming Trends and Technologies in 2024

Openxcell

Technology trends in the gaming industry are growing rapidly due to robust digital transformations. Crypto-based gaming The gaming industry in 2024 will increasingly focus on cryptocurrency-based games due to the use of real money as rewards. billion by 2027 due to increased investment in games built on blockchain technology.

Games 52
article thumbnail

Mathematical Modelling of Football

Henrik Warne

There were also several guest lectures from (among others) William Spearman , lead data scientist at Liverpool FC, and Javier Fernández , head of sports analytics at FC Barcelona. The book combines football and mathematics in a really interesting way, as I wrote in my review of it. Event Data.