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A day ahead of the latest iPhone unveiling, Jon Swartz and Jeremy C. Owens of MarketWatch will talk to Lopez Research founder Maribel Lopez about the looming battle between Apple Inc. and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. for the next generation of virtual-reality technology, and whether the tech will ever find broad acceptance.

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Jeremy Owens
Tech Editor and San Francisco Bureau Chief, MarketWatch
Jeremy C. Owens joined MarketWatch as Tech Editor and San Francisco Bureau Chief in 2015. He has worked in Bay Area journalism since graduating from the University of Georgia in 2000, and started covering Silicon Valley's financial growth more than a decade ago, when Facebook was still a startup and Netflix made its money from DVDs.
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Jon Swartz
Senior Reporter, MarketWatch
Jon Swartz is MarketWatch’s senior reporter based in San Francisco covering technology and Silicon Valley.
Previously, Swartz was USA Today’s San Francisco bureau chief. He has also written for Forbes, The (London) Independent, London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Orleans Times-Picayune. He has won numerous journalism awards and is a two-time finalist for the Loebs, the Pulitzers of business reporting. Additionally, he frequently appears as a panelist on Fox Business and NBC Bay Area’s Press:Here program.
He has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. Swartz is co-author of “Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity” and sole author of “Young Wealth.”
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Maribel Lopez
Founder and Principal Analyst, Lopez Research
Maribel is the founder of Lopez Research and the Data For Betterment Foundation. Lopez Research is a market research and strategy consulting firm covering topics that range from Artificial Intelligence to hybrid work transformation. Her clients range from start-ups to global firms, including 10 of the Fortune 30.

Maribel is also the author of the John Wiley and Sons book "Right-time Experiences" a contributor to Forbes and host of the podcasts Reimagine Hybrid Work, AI with Maribel Lopez and Elevate the Edge.

Her non-profit, the Data For Betterment Foundation, helps individuals and businesses understand how to prepare for new roles as companies embrace new future of work technologies. Prior to founding Lopez Research, Maribel gained her expertise by working at Motorola, International Data Corp., Shiva Corporation and Forrester Research.

Maribel is frequently quoted by publications such as Bloomberg, Marketwatch, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, The Globe and Mail, Businessweek, The Los Angeles Times, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She has also appeared on Bloomberg, BBC, China Global Television Network, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance.
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