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Tagboard, which helps cable giants and sports teams produce live content, lands $8M

GeekWire

Seattle-area startup Tagboard raised $8 million to boost its live production technology used by sports and entertainment companies. Founded in 2011, Tagboard launched more than a decade ago, helping teams such as the Seattle Mariners find and display fan social media content at their stadiums during games.

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Life goals: Megan Rapinoe says goodbye to soccer, and Seattle tech leaders share how she inspired

GeekWire

Beyond her prolific goal-scoring career, Rapinoe is celebrated for her outspoken commitment to social justice causes including issues related to race, the LGBTQ community, equal pay for women and more. “A lot of people are saying that women’s sports are having a moment. I hope they’re wrong.

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Tech Moves: Remitly exec to step down; Yoky Matsuoka named CEO of new Panasonic division

GeekWire

Remitly Photo) — Kim Vu , vice president of environmental social governance at Seattle digital remittance giant Remitly , will step down from her role at the end of the third quarter. The new division will blend both new and existing hardware products with software, AI, as well as human assistance when technology falls short.

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

Tread Map is a map-based social media for outdoor recreation that is Waze meets Trip Advisor meets X. OneCourt Seattle-based OneCourt makes live sports more accessible to fans with blindness or low vision through the use of a haptic device that conveys hard-to-describe details through touch. Tread Map The Wenatchee, Wash.-based

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Where Video Analytics Falls Into Your Big Data Strategy: 5 Use Cases

CTOvision

Big data analytics has become so popular that other types of analytics have branched off from -- things like social analytics, predictive analytics, and more. All it takes is some upgrades to hardware and software for those cameras to begin collecting data from what they record.

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Vizio files to go public, has sold over 80 million TVs

The Verge

We will continue our successful hardware business, iterating on models as we’ve done before, and at the same time build our name in smart TV software,” Wang said. Dynamic entertainment experiences: Attending virtual concerts or sporting events offering viewer-controlled, multi-cam experiences.

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What to expect from Apple’s ‘Time Flies’ event: Apple Watch Series 6, a redesigned iPad Air, and more

The Verge

That would be a significant design change from the current Air, which currently sports thick top and bottom bezels, and a button for Touch ID. We could see new hardware and new subscription bundles. The iPad Air might get a redesign with an edge-to-edge screen like the iPad Pros, reports Bloomberg. iPad Air 4 Touch ID via ???

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