The Daily Populous

Amazon May Take On Ticketmaster With New Event-Ticketing Business

Though many have tried, no online ticket sellers have even come close to touching Ticketmaster.

Is Amazon one of the few companies with enough size and reach to actually take on Ticketmaster?

Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, reports that Amazon is looking to partner with venue owners to sell tickets to sporting games, concerts, and other events.

Or Amazon could try compete directly with Ticketmaster for that primary ticket market, hoping to get a taste of that $1.6 billion business.

While owners want to know more about who is buying tickets for their events, Amazon doesn’t appear willing to share that information, the source notes.

Reuters reports that any future ticket-selling ventures from Amazon won’t be the first of its kind.

In some cases, the company — which began to sell tickets in 2015 — has outsold possible U.S. rival Ticketmaster. »

China kills AI chatbots after they start praising US, criticising communists

Authored by au.news.yahoo.com

The "chatbots", BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use machine learning artificial intelligence to carry out online with humans.

The outbursts are similar to ones suffered by Facebook and Twitter but underlines the pitfalls for AI in China, where censors strictly control online content.

The second chatbot, Microsoft's XiaoBing, told users its "China dream was to go to America", according to a screen grab. »

‘GLOW’: Netflix Renews Women’s Wrestling Comedy For Season 2

Authored by deadline.com

The Internet network has renewed new 1980s wrestling comedy GLOW for a 10-episode second season.

GLOW is the fourth Netflix comedy to debut in 2017 and get a second-season renewal.

One 2017 Netflix comedy has been canceled, Girlboss. »

Remembering Kim Jong-il’s Ventures Into the Sporting World

Authored by nytimes.com

But it is clear that Kim’s cult of personality influenced sport as well as politics in North Korea.

Upon further reflection, Pound said, “I bet he shot 300 in skeet and was good in horseshoes, too.”.

It was through soccer, though, that North Korea’s struggles and peculiarities became most visible to the sporting world. »

Knife robber tries to rob Glasgow shop but is beaten with mop, tries to rob nearby shop and is beaten with mop again

Authored by independent.co.uk

A robber carrying a knife was beaten with mops in two consecutive raids as he was trying to loot off-licences.

Stephen Hoggan, 49, has been jailed for five years after he admitted robbing three branches of One O One off-licence in Glasgow with a knife in April 2017.

He was sentence to five years in jail by the Lord Justice Clerk Lady Dorrian at the High Court in Glasgow. »