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Despite the Crypto Winter and other scandals, blockchains seem here to stay in the sports betting market

TechCrunch

According to Grand View Research, the global sports betting market is expected to grow to $182.12 Thus, HotStreak , a web3 platform for daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, is betting that a decentralizing payments is an ideal solution for DFS platforms. So, betting odds are presented more like stock prices. billion last year.

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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

TechCrunch

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

CIO

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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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

TechCrunch

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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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. “ Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy.” “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. So, I made a deal with myself.

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FutureIT Toronto – Where IDC Analysts and Canadian Tech Leaders Meet

CIO

CIO and IDC present a brand-new conference to hit Toronto’s downtown tech leadership scene. On May 9 th the day opens with a powerful keynote presentation by the Chief Research Officer at IDC, Meredith Whalen. Details on how to register are found below. To put this into perspective, Meredith is the head of IDC Research globally.

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Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning

QAspire

Leadership in a connected world is a complex sport. Leadership that is social in approach when it comes to building communities, enabling engagement and participating in knowledge flows across the network (both inside the organization through corporate social tools as well as external social media).

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