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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

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Speaking at the CIO UK 100 awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Drake explained what it meant to be ranked the top CIO in the UK , how her tennis background shaped her leadership, why automation is freeing up her IT team, and how THG is supporting engineers relocating from war-stricken Ukraine.

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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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The only team I’ve ever followed is the Cleveland Cavaliers, and that’s simply because I grew up near Cleveland (and, well, LeBron’s stardom didn’t hurt). Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture? Their in-game team members don this merch, some of which improves their game stats.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

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With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. It’s fair to say that tennis has lived up to its roots as a traditional sport,” says Mat Pemble, executive director of IT for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s governing body.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

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After leaving the armed forces, Ben went into coaching leadership teams at corporates, including the England Football Team and Manchester United. On the surface of Loopin is the daily ‘check-in’ via Slack or Microsoft Teams. The company says it already has 40 paying customers including Reed, Farfetch and JD Sports.

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Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

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Better.com layoff saga is no better : TechCrunch obtained a video leaked from a 12-minute meeting that took place with remaining employees after 900 of their colleagues were laid off in December. Dyte raised $11 million to make a drop-in software development kit (SDK) to help you with that. billion valuation. You can sign up here.).

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

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In 2020, the company had plans to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU) in Africa for its video-on-demand service, iROKOtv, from $7-8 to $20-25. However , more bad news came in August when the CEO announced that the company was laying off 150 people. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: How VC really works, longevity investor survey, choosing your angel

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Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. ” It should go without saying, but it’s a bad idea to pitch an investor if you don’t have a solid grasp of how they operate. ” Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week! In 2019, it was 78.86

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