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UFC president Dana White faces significant challenges ahead in navigating the company through 2023. (Photo by Amy Kaplan/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) It would have been inconceivable at lunchtime on Sept. 8 to think there was even the tiniest bit of concern about the UFC’s position in the sports landscape. It was a juggernaut and it was only growing. It was — and still is — in the midst of a lengthy sell-out streak for full arena shows. It was setting gate records regularly. It was… Source link

UFC president Dana White faces significant challenges ahead in navigating the company through 2023. (Photo by Amy Kaplan/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) It would have been inconceivable at lunchtime on Sept. 8 to think there was even the tiniest bit of concern about the UFC’s position in the sports landscape. It was a juggernaut and it was only growing. It was — and still is — in the midst of a lengthy sell-out streak for full arena shows. It was setting gate records regularly. It was… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Facebook’s name change won’t help it outrun its troubles Taking a page from Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Snapchat (SNAP), and now, Kanye West, Facebook (FB) is reportedly renaming itself. The Verge reported Tuesday that Facebook is changing its name to reflect its increasing… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Facebook (FB), the world’s largest social network with nearly 3 billion daily active users, is once again awash in controversy. But that won’t deter it from continuing to gain users or generating revenue. After a series of articles by The Wall Street Journal revealed Facebook was either… Source link

Clover Health (CLOV) CEO Vivek Garipalli has had a tumultuous year following the company’s merger with Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC. Though now a meme stock, it’s battling lawsuits spurred by a report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research alleging the company withheld information about legal issues from investors. It isn’t the health care executive’s first run-in with criticism about his business practices. Three New Jersey hospitals he owned and operated, with two partners, made… Source link

Bubba Wallace is still three races away from joining Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan’s new 23XI Racing team, but already, the team and Wallace are striking a decisive and unapologetically progressive tone. Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black driver, has partnered with Root Insurance to produce a new ad, entitled “Unapologetic.” Using tweets, headlines and news clips from the summer of 2020, the ad serves as both a statement of purpose and a direct rebuttal to the President of the United… Source link