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Sports venues advance goals, enhance fan experience with data analytics

CIO

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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Social stock trading services Public raises $65M Series C

TechCrunch

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. While competing services to Public also sport zero-cost trading, Public’s model hinges on a social focus (TechCrunch covered an element of Public’s social platform here , for example).

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AFL launches Just Walk Out technology to tackle queues at Marvel Stadium

CIO

While best known for Aussie rules games, Marvel Stadium has also hosted some of the biggest international sporting events such as UFC, FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and international rugby union tests. My goal in my role as a technologist is not to be the best sports stadium in the world.

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Recommender Systems: Content-based, Social recommendations and Collaborative filtering

Federico Cargnelutti

Social recommendations Social-networking technologies allow for a new level of sophistication whereby users can easily receive recommendations based on the shows that other people within their social network have ranked highly, providing a more personal level of recommendations than are achieved using a newspaper or web site.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

Broadly speaking, it’s needed by researchers, in fields from medical studies to social sciences, and is a vital tool to keep universities running efficiently, assist professors with courses, predict academic failure in time to make changes, and give students the help they need with administration.

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Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion

TechCrunch

Christine reports that the low-flying, Boston-based venture outfit just tripled the size of its second fund to $150 million thanks to its approach of investing in sports technologies with the help of its community of athlete backers who help promote and grow the portfolio companies.

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Daily Crunch: Hackers pinched LastPass customers’ encrypted password vaults, parent company admits

TechCrunch

If you like the great outdoors : Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform, acquired Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors, to make that next hike a doozy, Paul reports. Track this on your path to profit : Paris Heymann summarizes the metrics that matter in 3 KPIs to track on the path to profitability.

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