Ticketmaster Hires New Tech Chief, Focuses on AI
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Ticketmaster sells tickets for concerts and shows. Now it has a new boss for technology. This person is called the Chief Technology Officer, or CTO. The new CTO used to work at Amazon.
Ticketmaster wants to use more AI in its work. AI means computer programs that can think and learn like humans. The company says AI will be very important for its future.
At the same time, there is news about a data breach in Brazil. A data breach happens when private information gets stolen or lost. This happened to some Ticketmaster information in Brazil.
Also, a company called Hive got $27 million in new money. This is called a funding round. Hive is a marketing platform, a tool that helps sell things online. Hive has helped sell more than $1 billion in tickets.
Vocabulary15 words
- Chief Technology Officer
- the top boss for computers and technology in a company
- AI
- computer programs that can learn and think
- data breach
- when private information is stolen or lost
- funding round
- new money given to a company
- marketing platform
- a tool that helps sell things online
- executive
- an important boss in a company
- technology
- machines and computer systems
- ticket sales
- money made from selling tickets
- company
- a business
- information
- facts or data about something
- private
- secret; not for everyone
- future
- time that has not happened yet
- boss
- the person in charge
- stolen
- taken without permission
- online
- on the internet
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Ticketmaster sells _____ for concerts and shows.
Now it has a new boss for _____.
This person is called the _____ Officer, or CTO.
The new CTO used to work at _____.
Ticketmaster wants to use more _____ in its work.
The company says AI will be very _____ for its future.
There is news about a data _____ in Brazil.
This happened to some Ticketmaster _____ in Brazil.
A company called Hive got $27 _____ in new money.
Hive has helped sell more than $1 _____ in tickets.
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