Meta plans to challenge antitrust accusations that the European Union has leveled against it. The EU alleged that Meta stifled competition from classified ad competitors by integrating Facebook Marketplace into its extensive social network, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (July 12). During a confidential hearing in Brussels Thursday...
Meta’s Threads passed the 100-million user mark this weekend, five days after launching. “That’s mostly organic demand, and we haven’t even turned on many promotions yet,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the platform Monday (July 10). Post by @zuck View on Threads This breakneck growth...
Twitter has greeted the launch of Meta’s text-based app Threads with a letter from its lawyer. Elon Musk’s attorney, Alex Spiro, wrote a letter to Meta on Wednesday (July 6) that accused the company of misappropriating trade secrets, alleged that Threads was built by former...
Meta’s Twitter rival Threads debuted Thursday (July 6) with 10 million sign-ups in seven hours. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s envisioning a much higher number, surpassing Twitter’s 300 million-plus users. “There should be a public conversations app with 1 billion-plus people on it,” he wrote...
Meta has launched its text-based app called Threads. The new app was built by Meta’s Instagram team and offers a space to share posts that are up to 500 characters long and include links, photos and videos up to five minutes long, Meta said in...
Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads, which is due to release worldwide on Thursday (July 6), will not be offered in the European Union. Per a preview image of the app displayed in Apple’s App Store, non-EU users will be able to log into the text-based conversation app using...
The Canadian government and two companies have fired back in a dispute with Meta Platforms. The government, media firm Quebecor and cable television operator Cogeco Communications have said in separate announcements that they have halted their advertising on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms after the tech giant said it...
Meta has reportedly turned to China’s Tencent to resurrect its business in that country. A potential roadblock to the tech giant’s efforts, however, could be its CEO’s apparent views on China, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (July 3). Sources tell the newspaper that Meta’s...
Meta says its WhatsApp Business app now has more than 200 million monthly active users. And soon, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook page Tuesday (June 27), those users will be able to create Facebook and Instagram ads to attract new customers, “without...
