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Meta Platforms Continues Step Away from Facebook Brand with Ticker Symbol Update
May 31, 2022

Meta Platforms on Monday (May 31) took another step toward removing the Facebook branding from its company property with the announcement its Class A common stock will begin trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol META before the market opens June 9. The ticker symbol...

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Meta Says Metaverse Will Be Worth $3T
May 20, 2022

Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, is defending Meta’s eye-popping investments in the metaverse, saying he believes the technology will change how consumers use the internet. In his blog post Wednesday (May 18), Clegg compared the transition to the metaverse to the way our...

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Meta to Biz: Email Is Dead — Long Live WhatsApp
May 19, 2022

At its inaugural “Conversations” event on Thursday (May 19), Meta revealed new products, pilots and plans to make messaging the heart of next-level social commerce, leveraging demographic tailwinds that are now sunsetting email as the prime means of B2C communication. The news was teased by...

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Facebook Pay to Be Rebranded Meta Pay
May 13, 2022

Meta Platforms will rename Facebook Pay — its payment system available across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp — as Meta Pay “soon,” according to a blog post Wednesday (May 11) by Stephane Kasriel, Meta’s head of commerce and financial technologies. “We’re focused on enhancing the...

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Meta Eyes Cutting Funds to News Companies After Reader Drop
May 10, 2022

Meta is looking into cutting the funds it gives to news organizations, Reuters reported Monday (May 9). This comes as Meta is noticing that less people have been clicking on news links since former President Donald Trump left office. The social media giant is reportedly...

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Meta to Eliminate Several Location-Based Facebook Functions
May 08, 2022

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is removing a number of location-based functions from the social media site such as Nearby Friends, weather alerts and location history, according to a SocialMediaToday report Friday (May 6). Social media analyst Matt Navarra posted a tweet with a...

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Zuckerberg Hints at Upcoming Wearable AR Controller
May 05, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg has teased a new smart glasses project in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, a report from Reuters says. The report says Zuckerberg teased it by posting a picture of the other company’s chairman wearing a prototype of a neural interface wristband which is designed for...

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Meta Rolls Out New Small Business Tools With a Focus on Diversity
May 04, 2022

Facebook’s parent company Meta is rolling out new small business tools with a focus on supporting diverse companies and an overall goal of helping all firms succeed.  “Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been doing all we can to support small businesses by trying to help address...

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Facebook’s eCommerce Division Faces Exec Departures, Frustrated Retailers
May 03, 2022

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, isn’t making as much progress on eCommerce as employees thought it would at the time when the pandemic hit, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (May 3), and some retailers aren’t happy with that. Retailers have been “frustrated”...