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CNN 'Hologram' Provider Gets Bought By News Corp. Sports JV
Silicon Alley Insider —
Remember those bizarre "hologram" effects that Time Warner's (TWX) CNN used on Election night? They're now the property of a News Corp. (NWS) joint venture.
Sports data company Stats, a joint venture of News Corp. and the AP, has acquired the "hologram" provider, Israel-based SportVU, SportBusiness reports. A Hebrew report cited by PaidContent's Rafat Ali supposedly pegs the deal in the "tens of millions of dollars" range.
Ali explains the deal:
"From a sports perspective, its technology collects positioning data of ...
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... -- The company that produced those wacky CNN election night holograms gets acquired by a sports data firm. Maybe they'll be able to beam Manny back to whatever planet he came from. PaidContent ...
