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Sports venues advance goals, enhance fan experience with data analytics

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Sports fans today have more ways than ever to watch their favorite teams beyond the traditional, live stadium experience, including television, streaming services, even highlights on social media. In response, sports teams and venue operators are working hard to improve and differentiate the in-stadium experience.

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How 2 Australian sporting brands leverage human-centric digital innovation to drive new fan experiences in and out of the arena

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Creating new revenue streams, identifying untapped audiences and better engaging fans onsite and all year-round are just some of the wins iconic Australian sporting events are chalking up thanks to human-centric digital innovation. Here, we explore two stellar examples in the Australian Grand Prix and Australian Open.

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Fantasy fantasy sport Blaseball developers score $3M seed funding to go mobile

TechCrunch

In the absence of a real baseball league, it is perhaps not surprising that a simulated one should grow popular during the troubled year 2020. But ultimately we wanted to make the game better and sustainable, and we wanted to pay our team what they deserve.” WTF is daily fantasy sports?

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Micro-EV subscription startup Dance pulls in another €12M from existing investors

TechCrunch

Micro-EV subscription startup Dance , which launched in 2020, has raised an additional €12 million in an equity and debt round led by existing investors HV Capital, Eurazeo and BlueYard. In 2020, Dance closed a $17.7M Series A, led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo.

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Startup layoffs, the art of reinvention and a MasterClass in change

TechCrunch

The workforce reduction, per CEO David Rogier on Twitter, was made “to adapt to the worsening macro environment and get to self-sustainability faster.” When I first covered the company in March 2020 , I got stuck on its pitch of aspirational learning. The layoffs place a spotlight on the premise behind MasterClass.

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How Infosys and Tennis Australia are harnessing technology for good

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Marching resolutely alongside artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and digital advancement are customers demanding organisations be more environmentally sustainable, inclusive and responsible. The name of the game is then generating actionable insights that drive sustainable change.