You probably didn’t know this, but some of your data continues to be stored on Facebook’s database even after you delete your account. Yes, your contact details may stick around or may even get uploaded when someone else syncs their contacts. That obviously is not great for user privacy. Thankfully, the Meta-owned company offers a […]
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Meta Platforms Inc is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with the matter, with an announcement planned as early as Wednesday. Meta declined to comment on the WSJ report. Facebook parent Meta in October forecasted a weak holiday […]
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Before Instagram became the social media behemoth that we know today, it began as a fledgeling company that was the idea of two Stanford graduates. With more than two billion active users, the Meta-owned social media platform might already occupy a rent-free position in your head. But here are some things that you might not […]
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Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram now has 2 billion monthly active users worldwide, closing in on the 2.96 billion who use Facebook, in a sign of the social media giant’s shifting makeup. The company disclosed the number during an otherwise-gloomy earnings report Wednesday, when a shaky ad market clouded Meta’s forecast and sent its shares tumbling. […]
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Meta Platforms Inc. criticized Apple Inc. for changing its App Store terms to take a portion of social-media advertising revenue, saying the iPhone maker was “undercutting others in the digital economy.” The policy change, disclosed this week, requires users and advertisers to make an in-app purchase when they pay to “boost” posts in apps like […]
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About a year after Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc. to highlight its new focus on the metaverse, long-term shareholder Altimeter Capital Management has called on the company to rein in its spending on the bet. Meta has lost focus and its shares are underperforming peers, Brad Gerstner, chief executive officer of the […]
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Facebook has announced several new enhancements for the Groups feature aimed at helping users engage more deeply and making management of Groups an easier job for admins. One of these is an obvious attempt to combat fake news — admins will soon be able to sift out flagged posts in Groups. Perhaps the most significant […]
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Meta has developed a new AI translator that can convert spoken languages like Hokkien into spoken English in an attempt to knock down language barriers. Hokkien, a dialect of southern Min Chinese, is a primarily spoken language and does not have a standard writing system, which makes building translation tools for it a huge challenge. […]
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Britain’s competition regulator ordered Facebook-owner Meta to sell animated-images platform Giphy on Tuesday after its view that the acquisition reduced innovation in the advertising market was upheld by a tribunal in the summer. Meta said it would accept the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) order to unwind the 2020 deal. “We are disappointed by the […]
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