Chris Koch

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How Manchester United Revolutionized Sports Marketing

Chris Koch

Teams are paying a lot more attention to social media, because that’s where the younger generation of fans talks about sports,” says Mark Lehew , SAP’s Global Head of Sports & Entertainment Industry. Sales of family season ticket plans increased from fewer than 500 in 2009 to more than 7,500 in 2012. Fantasy sports.

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6 Freaky, Funny, and Scary Abilities of Computer Organisms

Chris Koch

But in 2009, EEG escaped from the lab and out into the wild, in the form of a an EEG device intended for gamers to levitate, Hans Solo-style, an object in a Star Wars simulation game using only their minds. Anyone who’s had a first-generation GPS-equipped phone remembers how quickly these tiny chips sucked the life out of their phone hosts.