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Mark Zuckerberg in his metaverse living room.Facebook Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that creating the metaverse will bleed money for three to five years. The Meta CEO told the company’s annual meeting that some products wouldn’t be ready for 15 years. The Facebook owner spent $10 billion on the idea of an immersive virtual world in 2021 alone. Meta’s metaverse project will lose “significant” amounts of money over the next three to five years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders on… 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 Everyone’s coming for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta On Monday, Washington D.C.’s attorney general cited Cambridge Analytica in a new lawsuit seeking to hold Meta (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally responsible for the social media giant’s privacy lapses. For those unaware, the consulting firm is… Source link

On Tuesday, the NCAA announced Mark Emmert would step down as its president, either once his replacement is found or by June 30, 2023. The distant departure date allows the Association to find a new leader and Emmert to continue to receive paychecks which, considering his approximate $2.7 million annual base salary, should be around $112,500 every couple of weeks. Emmert certainly learned long ago that when it comes to “amateur sports,” the grift never ends. The decision was supposedly… Source link

While 16 teams remain alive for an NBA championship, the rest of the league is making plans for next season. For three teams — so far — this means finding a new head coach. The Charlotte Hornets fired head coach James Borrego on Friday and joined the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings in their searches for a new bench leader. The Lakers and Kings previously parted with Frank Vogel and Alvin Gentry, respectively, after likewise missing the playoffs. Candidates emerge Per multiple… Source link

San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly told Yahoo Finance Live in an exclusive interview on Thursday that she sees the case for interest rates to move ‘expeditiously’ higher in order to pump the brakes further on surging inflation. And with the Fed growing increasingly hawkish in its endeavor to lower prices, uncertainty remains as to when month-over-month inflation will turn around. Deutsche Bank (DB) Wealth Management CIO for the Americas Deepak Puri believes that prices are currently at… Source link

Elon Musk’s big bid to buy all of Twitter has probably awakened numerous executives inside of Google and Meta, said tech titan and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. “Every major tech company, Google, fb, et al is on the phone with their anti trust lawyers asking if they can buy Twitter and get it approved. And Twitter is on the phone with their lawyers asking which can be their white knight. Gonna be interesting,” Cuban said in a new tweet on Thursday. Yahoo Finance reached out to Mark Cuban… Source link

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Mark Lennihan/AP Mark Zuckerberg tries to surf or foil — another type of water sport — for an hour each morning. He said it helps him absorb whatever bad news is happening at Meta or in the world that day. Waking up to the onslaught of bad news is “almost like getting punched,” he told Tim Ferriss. Mark Zuckerberg has developed a coping mechanism for dealing with the daily onslaught of news these days: surfing. The Meta CEO described his morning routine in a recent… Source link

The Russian market is off limits until at least 2023 due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, says emerging markets investing legend Mark Mobius. “It will be impossible for a long time,” the founding partner of Mobius Capital Partners said on Yahoo Finance Live. Mobius earned his stripes building out the emerging markets investing team at giant money manager Franklin Templeton. Added Mobius, “I don’t see anybody who wants to be investing in Russian equities or debt for another year. I would… Source link

The spike in oil prices — crude rose as high as $112.51 per barrel Wednesday — won’t cause too much turmoil in emerging markets, according to one veteran investor. Because of the globe’s reduced reliance on fossil fuel generally, and oil as an energy source specifically, emerging-market economies should be able to weather the surge. “The good news regarding oil prices is that these emerging markets have lots of alternatives now,” Mark Mobius, founding partner at Mobius Capital… Source link

The Biden administration’s push to reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese imports has renewed domestic efforts to produce rare earths minerals, critical to the production of electric vehicles and electronics. A new bipartisan Senate bill is aiming to accelerate that timeline, by banning defense contractors from sourcing those materials in the first place. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, the bill’s co-sponsor Sen. Mark Kelly (D, AZ) called Chinese rare earth minerals “a national security… Source link