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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. Even with the slowdown in a lot of sporting activity this year due to COVID — in the U.K.

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Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets

TechCrunch

In partnership with AiFi , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. It might sound like a lot of personal data Smart Store Analytics is collecting. million purchases to date.

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Irish eSports giant’s new startup bets big on rugby in bid for US market share

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A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. ASX Sports launched in May 2021 and took its exchange live on the Apple and Android app stores earlier this month. million active rugby fans, per sports analytics firm Gemba.

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Whoop raises another $200M for its athlete-focused fitness wearable

TechCrunch

Last time we checked in on the Boston-based company was in late-2019, when it raised $55 million. In fact, the company has a specific offering for sports teams, as well as solutions for businesses, healthcare and government/defense. Whoop, the sports tech and analytics company that makes discreet wearables, raises $55M.

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Henkel embraces gen AI as enabler and strategic disruptor

CIO

As Henkel CDIO Michael Nilles puts it, by 2019, Marc Andreessen’s pronouncement that “software is eating the world” had come true for the CPG sector, and Henkel was at risk of falling behind. “We However, at the same time, SAP was working on a new feature for the SAP Analytics Cloud: Just Ask, which applies gen AI to search-driven analytics.

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Highlights from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly Media - Data

Watch “ Recent trends in data and machine learning technologies “ Interactive sports analytics. Watch “ Interactive sports analytics “ Data sonification: Making music from the yield curve.

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Stories as a service: Storyteller lets anyone add Stories to their own apps or website

TechCrunch

Over the past decade or so, Storm Ideas has matured into a 70-person company that now offers strategy, design, development, and content for its clients across the sports and entertainment industries. They can categorize the content, build out publication schedules, and publish the data into the SDK, then track analytics.

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