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It’s just over four and a half years since one of the biggest rebrands in Big Tech history took place. On October 28, 2021, ...

The internet is ushering in a new era of rapid change and transformation that will impact the world's economy enormously. All over the continent, digitalisation is gaining prominence. It's changing ...

The metaverse was supposed to be transformative. In March 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it “the next chapter of the internet overall.” Three years ago, Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft, wrote ...

As we move further into an era of virtual realities and hyper-connected digital landscapes, children increasingly grow up with profound exposure to the metaverse and adult content. With its expansive ...

To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

At the heart of the metaverse derangement was the persistent inflation of its definition. McKinsey & Company proclaimed in June 2022 that the metaverse could generate “up to $5 trillion in impact by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Bendor-Samuel is founder & executive chairman of Everest Group. The industrial metaverse is not a distant future but an ...

Before generative AI shook everything up, the metaverse was the next big thing. Now, it's "AI and the metaverse." For those with short attention spans, a social media company named Facebook changed ...

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the automaker could check if the chassis would fit through the production line was to fly a team out and physically ...