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The payment that Electronic Arts is giving players to appear in “College Football 25” is “low,” one expert says.

A former college professor who became an Oscar-winning film producer, Jeff Lurie has the NFL’s 10th most valuable team back in the Super Bowl for the second time in five years.

Apple’s privacy-friendly ad business is also an antitrust avoidance strategy.

Private boosters are dangling potentially lucrative "name, image or likeness" deals to recruit budding stars. Coaches are worried.

One of Mark Zuckerberg’s first steps toward building the metaverse may be physical instead of virtual.

One of Mark Zuckerberg’s first steps toward building the metaverse may be physical instead of virtual. Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, has discussed opening retail stores that will eventually span the world, said people with knowledge of the project and company documents viewed by The New York Times. The stores would be used to introduce people to

The stores would be used to introduce people to devices made by the company’s Reality Labs division, such as virtual reality headsets.

Not content with this world, Facebook believes it can build a new reality.

Not content with this world, Facebook believes it can build a new reality.

Because of their success, many Amazon sellers are being bought by larger, heavily-funded companies. Major brand buyers include GOJA, Perch, Thrasio, and Boosted Commerce. Theyre "trying to create the 21st century version of Procter & Gamble," one attorney explained. According to Amazon growth agency Jungle Scout, more than 54% of the $386 billion in net sales that the retail platform generated in 2020 came from third-party Amazon sellers.  Between 2019 and 2020, Amazon invested $30 billion in...