Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (META) would bring the metaverse to the homes of billions of users via the company’s Quest AR/VR headsets. Heck, Zuckerberg even changed the social media giant’s name to reflect his lofty ambitions to create a series of interconnected, permanently online worlds. But it’s looking more and more like Epic Games will be … Read more
Facebook is celebrating its twentieth anniversary and has grown from a network for students at one university to one of the largest internet platforms in the world today. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest moments from the social network’s past 20 years. – The launch Facebook first launched on February 4, 2004 … Read more
Facebook remains one of the most influential pieces of technology in the world, an expert says, despite recent scandals, pressure from rivals and other issues facing Facebook as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. Founded by a group including CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, it has grown into one of the … Read more
Facebook’s ‘like’ sign is seen on the campus of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images) For years, Facebook’s “thumbs up” icon adorned the sign that greeted visitors at the company’s California headquarters. It was, of course, an image of the Like button, which was launched in 2009. Ultimately, … Read more
(Bloomberg) — Some of the tech industry’s most prominent and powerful leaders will descend on Capitol Hill Wednesday for a Senate hearing focused on protecting children online. Most read from Bloomberg CEOs of Meta Platforms Inc., Congress has increasingly scrutinized social media platforms as mounting evidence suggests that overuse and the spread of harmful content … Read more
no Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, sees the inevitable. If paying brands stay away from the platform and deprive what was once Twitter of its lifeline of ad revenue, X is toast. Musk himself has admitted as much. But no matter how risky the platform is for advertisers and how degraded the experience … Read more