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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. Spoiler alert: it failed.) The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai.

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Beyond ‘Netflix Party’: startups and their VCs bet we’ll browse more of the web together

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From watching sports to watching movies to perhaps even reviewing X-rays with one’s doctor some day, both say more web surfing together is inevitable, particularly for younger users. from NBC Sports to YouTube to Disney+), and it relies on data synchronization to ensure that every user sees the same original video quality.

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About WayIn: A Social Media Intelligence Company

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This social intelligence company integrates content into new experiences for consumers and also provides enterprises with new ways to deliver value from social media. WayIn provides an ability to aggregate, curate, integrate and measure social content and data in real-time. Source: About Wayin - Our History and Mission.

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Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round

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The startup was founded in 2021 by Greg Drach and Christian Dorffer — the founders of Midnight Runners, urban running communities, along with Daniel Taschik, the former CTO/co-founder of Dubsmash, the video-sharing app acquired by Reddit in 2020 and shut down by same last year.

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

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The company already has amassed a list of notable customers, including Ikea-owned TaskRabbit, NBC Sports, Unilever, Delivery Hero, Gojek, eToro and Stanford University, as well as a number of others that it’s not disclosing across healthcare, education, finance, virtual events, dating, gaming and social.

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This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’

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“I told myself, ‘I’ll go to colleges and pro sports teams and teach finance and investing 101,’ ”Haddix recalls. “In Haddix joined On Deck as a fellow and it was there he met co-founder and CTO, Cindy Zeng. co-founder and CEO), Cindy Zeng (co-founder and CTO) and Connor Gordon (director of product) / Scout.

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Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online this year; here’s what you might have missed

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Founders: Martin Aguinis (CEO), Josh Payne (COO), Kamil Ali (CTO). Founders: King Alandy Dy (CEO) , Jeff Tan (COO) , Rui Aguiar (CTO). Founders: Alkarim Lalani (CEO) , Blaise Bradley (CTO). The pitch: Wagr will allow sports fans to bet with peers in a social, fair, and simple way. Website: accessbell.com.