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Sports community platform Stadium Live raises $10M to expand its digital world for Gen Z

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announced its $10 million Series A funding round to continue its mission of bringing fantasy sports to a younger generation. The Canadian startup was founded in 2020 by Kevin Kim and Paul Xu with the goal of gamifying the sports fandom and building a “digital playground” of sorts for Gen Z sports fans.

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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO

Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Instilling an innovative culture comes down to creating an environment based on trust, which breaks down barriers and inspires people to have more open mindsets, says Keshavan. Prioritize time for experimentation.

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NFTs are changing cultural value creation

TechCrunch

Sure, we talked about visual art, but also music, tickets and sports moments. Then we talked culture. From there we riffed on use-cases more broadly, and where we might find NFTs in the wild. The NFT world has the possibility of a large remit if it plays its, ahem , tokens correctly. What could it mean that NFTs are in the market?

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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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10 ways to ace the IT executive interview

CIO

Get the balance right on social media It’s easy to track down company executives on social media, read what they have posted, connect with them, and attempt to make friends. Some of that will be in social media. How you use social media is part of that. Perhaps one of your questions is about the company culture.

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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

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He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. “I spoke to the PM of Italy and Minister of Culture. I spoke to the PM of Italy and Minister of Culture. “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.

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