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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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iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels

TechCrunch

Talk about a good sport. If you’re wondering about Greg’s status, not to worry — he’s due to return from a well-deserved parental leave in a month and change. With those administrative bits out of the way, let’s get on with Week in Review. (If Is the tech jobs market as bad as it seems?

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

TechCrunch

Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. However , the CEO kept mute about the whole process the following year due to how tumultuous it was for the company. sports betting company, GVC and online fashion retailer, ASOS have done in the past.

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A startup is charging $1.99 for strings of text to feed to DALL-E 2

TechCrunch

Priced at $1.99 — PromptBase takes a 20% cut — the content that the prompts generate range from “viral” headlines to pictures of sports team logos, knitted dolls and animals wearing suits. It’s unknown how big the market will be, but I can see it being a key tech skill, if not the future of programming.”

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Customer Experience is a Team Sport

IDC

Customer Experience (CX) will have a greater influence over future purchase decisions, say 93% of tech buyers. CX improvement must become a top initiative for CMOs or marketing will be the proverbial canary in the coal mine – the first to be blamed if the pipeline erodes due to customers’ poor experience. The CMO’s conundrum?

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AI in Media: Redefining Customer Experience with Immersive Stories

Trigent

Companies have started empowering these experiences through emerging technologies. Modern enterprises are now deploying AI tools and technologies to ensure effective decision-making and agile responsiveness to market changes. Improved entertainment quotient in sports broadcasting. Assess AI maturity.

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How This Pandemic May Change The University Experience Forever

Battery Ventures

The university experience is likely to change profoundly due to social distancing and related health measures. As a VC investor in education technology and other consumer sectors, I’m closely tracking this transformation and which startups are poised to help usher in this new future.