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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

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Appetize launches payment-processing service

As venues move toward more comprehensive digital solutions for services like ticketing, concessions and retail, it makes sense that service and product providers in the space are moving to make those deployments easier and more integrated. To that end, point of sale solutions provider Appetize recently launched a payment-processing service, in part to help venues seeking to streamline their back-end...

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Verizon adds 5G to 14 NBA arenas

Remember back at the start of 2020, when we told you that 5G was coming to stadiums? Well that trend is fully underway now, highlighted this week by Verizon's announcement that it had deployed its 5G ultra wideband services in 14 more NBA arenas, part of multi-year partnership agreements between Verizon and now 15 NBA teams. The NBA announcement follows...

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Austin FC picks YinzCam for app, VenueNext for POS

Major League Soccer's Austin FC has selected leading sports venue app provider YinzCam as the developer of the team's app, which will serve both as a game-day information and interaction center as well as a place where fans can view remote action of live games and other video. According to Austin FC President Andy Loughnane, the choice of YinzCam as...

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Appetize adds 5 MLB teams, 10 minor-league teams to concessions-systems roster

Food, beverage, and retail management software company Appetize Technologies Inc. has added five Major League Baseball teams and 10 minor-league teams this season to its roster of baseball venues using the company's systems to help power concessions and retail sales, according to the company. The five new stadiums using Appetize software and technology this season are Dodger Stadium, Progressive Field,...

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Cisco signs sponsor deals with NFL, Paris Olympics

Networking vendor Cisco announced sponsorship deals with the NFL and with the 2024 Paris Olympics Tuesday, separate deals that should both increase the exposure of Cisco's name in conversations about football and the Olympics in the near future. For stadium owners and operators, the more potentially interesting deal is between Cisco and the NFL, since many NFL stadiums currently use...

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Globe Life Field picks Appetize to power all concessions, retail

When the Texas Rangers opened their 2021 season this week with a full house at Globe Life Field, the fans present got the first taste of an all-Appetize system powering concessions and retail operations, much of it designed to provide safer, contact-free interactions. While the new stadium did host limited crowds for last fall's MLB playoffs and World Series, Monday's...

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