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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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