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Variety’s Sports Entertainment Summit Recap

Five years from now connected devices working in concert with one another will be an invariable reality. While something like Google Glass still seems like a futuristic apparatus, the aforementioned statement reflects the projection made by Brian Dunphy, Qualcomm’s Senior Director of Business Development, at Variety’s Sports Entertainment Summit’s opening panel entitled “Fireside Chat with Qualcomm and MLB Advanced Media.”

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Preview of Variety’s Sports Entertainment Summit

Over the years, the sports and entertainment sectors have become one in the same. These two fields have merged as the ethos of the American pastime. Together they’ve formed big businesses that radically influence mass audiences as institutions in their own right. By 2015, the global sports market is projected to hit revenues north of $145 billion. That’s the depth and power these verticals have on society.

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