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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
Facebook parent Meta Platforms is doubling down on short-form video, artificial intelligence (AI) performance in social media feeds and putting new metaverse hardware IRL. On its Q1 2022 earnings call Wednesday (April 27), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked up the forthcoming Horizon metaverse and Meta...
Arjuna Capital said it had secured support from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to put Meta Platforms Inc.’s proposed metaverse through a third-party evaluation of its potential psychological, civil and human rights harms, according to a Thursday (April 7) press release. Meta’s shareholders...
