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    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Exchange traded funds
      Metaverse storms ETF charts to become industry’s hottest concept

      A total of 35 vehicles have now launched since the first was unveiled in June last year

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      European business schools
      Business schools explore teaching in the metaverse

      Institutions are venturing into virtual worlds — both as a subject and a learning tool

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Meta job cuts provide a post-pandemic reality check: ‘The bubble has burst’

      Mark Zuckerberg bows to investor demands over spending on metaverse as Big Tech groups halt expansion

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Rutherford Hall
      It’s time to plan for the metaverse. No, we don’t know what that means either

      An FT column offering a behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Meta shareholders vent anger at Zuckerberg’s spending binge

      CEO seems intent on using majority control to push ahead with big bet on metaverse despite Wall St scepticism

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
      Lawyers zoom in on the metaverse

      Legal teams are opening offices in virtual worlds to connect with clients and entrepreneurs

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      John Thornhill
      The metaverse revolution may yet devour Meta

      Zuckerberg’s company suffers from a first mover disadvantage when it comes to owning the virtual future

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Asia’s largest metaverse platform Zepeto ramps up global expansion

      Korean group plans to boost presence as it seeks to take on big US rivals building avatar-filled virtual worlds

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      John Thornhill
      The metaverse is evolving from fiction into fact

      Neal Stephenson, the novelist who coined the term, rejects the idea of a dystopian future for tech-dependent humanity

    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      What’s the story, hunky Tory?

      Matt Hancock “is launching into the Metaverse”, with some quite perky pecs.

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Tech Tonic podcast1 min listen
      Coming soon: A Sceptic’s Guide to Crypto

      Even after the crypto markets crashed this year, there are still a number of people …

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      Cryptofinance
      Crypto libertarians find out sanctions apply to them too Premium content

      Plus, Coinbase’s tough year continues and job losses in a growing metaverse industry

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Metaverse by Matthew Ball — a glimpse of the future

      Overhyped tech bubble or next-generation internet platform? An intriguing book that explores how the metaverse could operate

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      IPOs
      Metaverse dating app popular with young people in China vies for HK listing

      Tencent-backed social media app Soul uses avatars instead of pictures and connects people using algorithms

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      Exchange traded funds
      South Korea metaverse ETF performance slumps

      10 have launched in the country since October last year

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      #techFT
      Major metaverse movers talk standards Premium content

      BlockFi bailout, Terraform flight ban, China’s Musk fears

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      Tim Sweeney on Epic's metaverse

      Passively managed index funds have overtaken actively managed funds in the US

    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Big Tech tiptoes to the metaverse

      Apart from Meta, the sector is taking a cautious approach to the next mass market computing platform

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      Investors’ enthusiasm for the metaverse remains overheated

      The stretching of the concept’s scope has been easier given both its complexity and the post-pandemic moment

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      LexMeta Platforms
      Meta: Sheryl Sandberg exits the metaverse Premium content

      Without advertising growth, tech group’s transformation will not succeed

    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
      Working It podcast20 min listen
      Welcome to your office in the metaverse

      A virtual office in the metaverse is being touted as the future of work

    • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
      The real metaverse was the fun we had along the way

      “When everything’s Web3, nothing is.”

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      FT CollectionsTech Exchange
      Dave Limp: Amazon’s focus is on the real world, not the metaverse

      In our third Tech Exchange interview, the man responsible for the Alexa virtual assistant and Astro robot explains how ‘ambient computing’ can enhance the real world — rather than creating a virtual one

    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      #techFT
      Ignore the metaverse. The real value in gaming is intellectual property

      Sony and Microsoft say recent deals will help create virtual worlds but the immediate prize is having the best games portfolio

    • Monday, 11 April, 2022
      The Future of Money
      Inside Mastercard’s first party in the metaverse Premium content

      Plus, how informed. IQ uses artificial technology to underpin loan underwriting and Meta set to introduce virtual coins

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