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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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Being that I’m not much of a sports person — my preferred type of game involves controllers and screens — I hadn’t given All-World much thought until Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch’s managing editor, assigned me to write a first impressions piece. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture?

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How 2 Australian sporting brands leverage human-centric digital innovation to drive new fan experiences in and out of the arena

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Creating new revenue streams, identifying untapped audiences and better engaging fans onsite and all year-round are just some of the wins iconic Australian sporting events are chalking up thanks to human-centric digital innovation. Here, we explore two stellar examples in the Australian Grand Prix and Australian Open.

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Social stock trading services Public raises $65M Series C

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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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NBA All-Star Chris Paul joins digital media startup Greenfly’s growth round

TechCrunch

Green and Kirschner saw how social media was driving new sources of revenue for organizations like sports teams, politics and consumer brands, but needed a way for real-time distribution of media to be easily shared. He considers Greenfly “instant access to a media gallery” that he can share on his social media accounts.

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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.) Sun replaces Feiyu Xu as SAP’s global head of AI.

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Celebrity Crypto Backers Hit Pause On Startup Deals

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We focused on FTX promoters to start, which includes sports superstars Shaquille O’Neal , Tom Brady , Naomi Osaka and Stephen Curry. He also is co-founder of Religion of Sports , a sports media company in Santa Monica, California, that provides videos, podcasts, films and social content about athletics.

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Draymond Green isn’t starting a fund, but is working with top VCs

TechCrunch

” Palihapitiya was an early investor at Facebook and backed Yammer and Slack through his fund, Social+Capital Partnership. He’s poured money into Blink Fitness, which aims to bring affordable options for fitness to underserved communities; the tequila brand Lobos 1707; and Snackpass, a social food ordering platform.

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