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Gainful raises $7.5M for personalized sports nutrition

TechCrunch

COO Eric Wu, who founded the company with CTO Jahaan Ansari, told me that Gainful began with his own experience experimenting with different protein powders and eventually finding the combination that worked best for his goals and dietary needs. for its healthy sports drink alternative. million in Series A funding.

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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

TechCrunch

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. based PlayerData uses wearable technology and software tracking to give grass-roots and professional sports teams feedback on their training. It’s now led a $2.3 Edinburgh, U.K.-based

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO

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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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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Ecco come i CIO stanno ripensando alle strategie sul cloud

CIO

I risparmi sono troppo grandi per essere ignorati da molte aziende”, afferma David Heinemeier Hansson, sviluppatore danese di Ruby on Rails, nonché co-proprietario e CTO di 37signals, che ha completato un’uscita totale di sei mesi dal cloud lo scorso giugno [in inglese]. “Un

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How Big Data Is Helping Professional Sports

CTOvision

Big data has made its way across many different areas of industry, including the professional sports industry where the use of analytics is making a major change in how athletes and sports teams are preparing for games. The use of analytical data is not solely limited to being used as a development tool for individuals […].

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Why you can’t ignore cloud security

CIO

George Dragatsis, A/NZ chief technology officer with Hitachi Vantara Australia says it’s essential that CISOs, CIOs and others tech leaders contemplate these questions seriously. It’s team sport for everyone in the company.” Have their staff been vetted? Has the criticality of your data been fully ascertained?

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