Meet Wesa: the primary professional business enterprise for E-sports players

the sector of e-sports – the burgeoning commercial enterprise of professional video gaming – took a big step Friday with the statement that it’ll form its first participant’s employer, the sector Esports affiliation. The organization, known as Wesa for short, will paintings with professional groups to standardize participant contracts, set tournament schedules, recommend groups on distribution rights agreements and offer arbitration between e-sports players and their teams. so far, these agreements had been decided nearly totally via teams themselves, although a few leagues have their personal requirements to which groups…

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India’s Nascent E-Commerce Market Likely to Draw Global, Local Players

Craigslist could learn a thing or two from Quikr. The Indian equivalent of the free classifieds service publishes product ratings, handles payments and shipping and crucially releases payment only after a buyer gives their purchase a once-over and a virtual thumbs-up. In so doing, the site that lists for sale everything from smartphones to cars is trying to solve problems familiar to every local flea-market bargain-hunter: the typically loud and messy business of haggling, unwieldy transport, and a distrust of smaller merchants. The app’s manifold services illustrate the extent to…

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