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Gone are the days when celebrities can jet-set without their locations being known — at least for billionaires like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Jack Sweeney, 19, became an overnight sensation after his Twitter account @ElonJet went viral. The account, which has over 470,000 followers, uses a bot to automatically track the location of Musk’s private jet. Some billionaires are easier to trace than others, Sweeney told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “With Elon Musk,… Source link

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

Mark Zuckerberg shared advice that a former Yahoo COO gave him as he was launching Facebook. Dan Rosensweig said, “every organization sucks, but you get to choose the ways in which your organization sucks.” Zuckerberg shared the advice with podcaster Tim Ferriss during a chat about Meta’s core values. … 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

We are less than a month into the New Year, but so far 2022 has not been kind to crypto. The price of bitcoin (BTC-USD), the granddaddy of digital currency, is off to its worst yearly start since the dawn of crypto, down roughly 40% from its all time high, and analysts are bracing for more volatility ahead. But true believers are not backing off. While it’s mostly young men who are trading cryptocurrency, research finds a growing number of women are taking the plunge and even prefer trading… Source link

Among other new details, the new filing alleges that Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, helped negotiate the agreement and urged Zuckerberg’s approval, calling it “a big deal strategically.” The complaint says the team that negotiated the deal sent Zuckerberg an email telling him, “We’re nearly ready to sign and need your approval to move forward.” “Facebook CEO [REDACTED] wanted to meet with COO [REDACTED] and his other executives before making a decision,”… Source link

Facebook. Apple. Amazon. Netflix. Google. Five Big Tech giants known in investing circles simply as FAANG for years. That was until Mark Zuckerberg channeled his inner meta on Thursday.  The FAANG investing acronym was created in 2013 by Jim Cramer, the founder of TheStreet (full disclosure, my former boss who also created the term “Cloud Kings“). It was both catchy as hell and true to form for the companies it represented.  Think of a fang on a rabid dog and it’s not unlike all five tech… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. Most Read from Bloomberg A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday, adding to a drop of about 15% since mid-September. The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg’s worth down to $120.9 billion,… Source link

When Amazon (AMZN) Chairman Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO earlier this month and wasted no time launching into space, some may have wondered when Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg would step down from the tech giant he founded. In fact, Zuckerberg is already starting to prepare for his own exit, says Cecilia Kang, a New York Times technology reporter and co-author of a new insider account of Facebook called, “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination.” Kang, whose book draws on… Source link