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Draftea kicks off LatAm fantasy football with NFL partnership, fresh funding

TechCrunch

Draftea , which calls itself the first daily fantasy sports company in Spanish-speaking Latin America , is taking fantasy football (not fĂștbol) to the region in a new partnership with the National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Player’s Association, a labor union representing the league’s athletes.

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Okay, fine, I want Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight

TechCrunch

He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 11, 2023 Seemed like a pretty definitive statement! “I love this sport and I’ve been ready to fight since the day Elon challenged me,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads , Meta’s Twitter competitor. The Musk v.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO

To help CIOs figure out what they should be doing with the metaverse, I queried a select group of CXOs at large enterprises about their metaverse plans and immersed myself for several weeks digesting and synthesizing as much information as possible on the topic, including a series of exercises I posed on various social media platforms.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

Highlighting the pressure platform developers face, AltspaceVR, one of the first social applications of VR, was recently sunsetted by parent company Microsoft. Despite competition from vendors like Obsess and ByondXR, Emperia has 45 customers across sectors including fashion, beauty, luxury apparel and sports.

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What Do Communities of Practice Look Like in Organisations

Evolution4all

The early proponents of CoPs believe that learning takes place in a social context. This simple definition by Wenger gives us a clear idea of what CoPs look like. From this definition, we derive three important points : There must be a shared domain, concern or passion. CoPs are not just clubs or a mere network of people.

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Should L&D Teams Provide Training on Well-Being?

Experience to Lead

Major changes to the workplace have emerged based on the increased attention to mindfulness, including corporate gym memberships and playing sports on company outings. Crafting an organizational understanding of wellness through L&D could include forums that discuss the definition of the term. Upskilling People in Well-Being.

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

Modern CTO

He has been one of the Top 50 Most Downloaded Law Authors at the Social Science Research Network, both All Time and during the Past 12 Months, and is currently ranked in the top 10% in total number of downloads for all fields on SSRN. From 2013-2017 and 2010-2014 he was among the ten most-cited faculty in the field of Commercial Law.