The opportunities and risks of Metaverse for small businesses
The benefits outweigh the risks when it comes to the adoption of Metaverse for small businesses. The Metaverse has been become one of the biggest buzzwords in the blockchain and crypto, as it promises to provide a more immersive, interactive and collaborative experience than what the internet has accomplished to date. This promise of a new world has huge enterprises like Meta (formally known as Facebook) investing huge sums in the budding space. When most hear the name Metaverse, their mind wanders to a few things: an avenue for global conglomerates to showcase their technology-forward....
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The metaverse offers endless opportunities to businesses and individuals, and some media reports even indicate that the metaverse will be a one trillion dollar industry. Now, those are some big figures. Right? Well, wait till you hear the figure put forward by Morgan Stanley. Recently, Morgan Stanley, the leading global investment bank, stated that the […]
The Metaverse is fraught with risks. Implementing effective safeguards — both physical and virtual — will be critical to entrepreneurs seeking to do business there. Hyped as it is, the Metaverse remains largely undefined. It’s a challenge to answer the question “What is the Metaverse?” in part because its definition depends on whom you ask. As it stands today, the “Metaverse” includes virtual reality and what we might previously have called “cyberspace” — including digital assets like non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrencies and more.In the rush to become the first to innovate in....
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The US House of Representatives committee on small business held a hearing on 2nd April to discuss the growing use of bitcoin by the country's small business owners (SMBs), and the pros and cons that using this technology as a payment option offers the demographic. Entitled 'Bitcoin: Examining the Benefits and Risks for Small Business', a panel of experts spoke about the benefits and costs of the use of bitcoin by SMBs, while also touching on hot topics like Silk Road and the recent IRS decision on the tax treatment of digital currencies. Committee Chairman Sam Graves noted in his opening....