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Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12] [13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]
In October 2021, owner Facebook, Inc. changed its company name to Meta Platforms, Inc., or simply "Meta", as it shifts its focus to building the "metaverse". This change does not affect the name of the Facebook social networking service itself, instead being similar to the creation of Alphabet as Google's parent company in 2015.
Reality Labs, formerly Oculus VR, is a business and research unit of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including virtual reality headsets such as Quest, and online platforms such as Horizon Worlds. In June 2022, several artificial intelligence (AI ...
WhatsApp and Meta are making a significant change to how it stores its users’ data, including their chats.. Data on both services will be moved from being stored in Ireland and regulated by its ...
(Reuters) -Meta Platforms is looking to introduce ad-free subscription plans for Instagram and Facebook users in Europe, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The proposal is an ...
In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. [48] In 2010, Facebook began to invite users to become beta testers after passing a question-and-answer-based selection process, [49] and a set of Facebook Engineering Puzzles where users would solve computational problems which gave them ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Meta Platforms' advertising-free subscription service, a fee-based offering rolled out in Europe this month, breaches EU consumer laws, Europe's largest consumer group said on ...
Meta Platforms United States: 2004 3.070 billion: 2.11 billion daily active users: 2 YouTube: Alphabet Inc. United States: 2005 2.504 billion: 3 WhatsApp: Meta Platforms United States: 2009 2 billion: Had 1 billion daily active users when it had 1.3 billion monthly active users [citation needed] 4 Instagram: Meta Platforms United States: 2010