Looking at what the big players are doing, it’s easy to view the Metaverse as a big thing. Facebook has changed its corporate name in honour of the new trend. Microsoft’s CEO acknowledged that their latest and largest acquisition (the game maker Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion) was a side bet in games but also a bigger step towards the Metaverse, and the next Internet. The history of these two companies shows something: they were slow to adapt to new technologies. And now they do not seem to want to miss the next evolution. Microsoft underplayed the Internet at first…
Author: Dario Betti
Dario Betti
Dario Betti is CEO of MEF (Mobile Ecosystem Forum) a global trade body established in 2000 and headquartered in the UK with members across the world. As the voice of the mobile ecosystem, it focuses on cross-industry best practices, anti-fraud and monetisation. The Forum provides its members with global and cross-sector platforms for networking, collaboration and advancing industry solutions. Web: https://mobileecosystemforum.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mef LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mobile-ecosystem-forum Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MobileEcosystemForum/
