Meta Platforms (META) News & Analysis

Rahul Pandey, who left Meta to co-found Taro, which offers career coaching to software engineers, said you create "gravity" with thoughtful sharing.

A former Meta and Google engineer compared his experience working at both companies. Despite the higher stress, he said Meta was better.

We get into the heart of the Q1 earnings season this week, with more than 800 companies reporting results, including four Magnificent 7 members and 173 other S&P 500 members. How are expectations shaping up?

“Meta profits, kids pay the price,” was the message delivered by dozens of grieving families at the doors of Meta’s Manhattan office on Thursday.

Forty-five families traveled from across the U.S. and as far as the United Kingdom to hold a vig…

Meta’s Supernatural virtual reality fitness app is reducing the number of workouts it releases per week as a result of the layoffs.

Entergy seeks regulatory approval to shift constructions costs for gas plants needed to power Meta’s facility to its entire customer base.

Remnant Protocol will take us back to the age of sci-fi spaceflight sims as it launches in VR on the Meta Quest Store and on Steam in Q4.

The company announced it was cracking down on spam content that was crowding out authentic creators and “hurting” the Facebook experience.

AI could replace apps as the main way people use technology, said Andrew Bosworth.

The tech industry is often cautious about tying layoffs to performance, even if it might play a role in who gets dismissed during widespread job cuts. But this year has signaled a noticeable shift in how some of the biggest players in tech approach la…

Meta lays off Reality Labs staff, impacting Oculus Studios and VR fitness app Supernatural, while pursuing new hires and restructuring efforts.

OpenAI is reportedly building its own X-like social network. The project is still in the early stages, but there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that contains a social feed, The Verge reports. A social app would give OpenA…

Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed. The cuts affected teams working in Oculus Studios, Meta’s in-house games division for Quest headsets, as well as some employees involve…

Meta laid off employees on Thursday in its Reality Labs division, which encompasses various virtual and augmented reality projects. The cuts impact employees within Oculus Studios, which develops apps and games for Meta’s Quest headsets. Meta did…

Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting pressure on social media companies to step up. On Thursday, 45 families who lost children to online…

Instagram Threads, Meta’s newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com. The transition will coincide with a handful of quality-of-life improvements for the Threads web app, including…

In an ongoing antitrust case, the Federal Trade Commission says that Meta has a monopoly on “personal social networking services” and should have to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp. Throughout the proceedings, there have been several internal messages …

Meta’s landmark trial has taken an unexpected turn.

Google’s Gemini usage data was revealed this week by the tech giant during a court hearing in the company’s internet search monopoly case.

The Magnificent Seven tech stocks ran out of steam in a big way going into 2025, thanks in part to Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, which fueled an unprecedented rise in macro uncertainty and, with that, off-the-charts volatility in both directions. Though a big correction year for the big tech titans isn’t out of the ordinary […]

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Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. The company is also increasing efforts to remove Facebook accounts that coordinate fake engagement and im…

The majority of the school’s 443 students are Latino and receive special education or health services.

Wall Street analysts expect Meta’s ad sales growth to take a hit from the U.S.-China trade war as Temu and other pull back.
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Singular released the 2025 return on investment (ROI) Index, a comprehensive data-driven ranking of mobile advertising performance.

It may come as a surprise to many to see Abby Joseph Cohen pop up in their Instagram feed with an offer that’s hard to refuse.

Substack and Patreon are vying to become creators’ primary revenue stream.

For most influencers, payouts from platforms like Meta or Google aren’t enough to build a sustainable career. Rather than spending their days hawking products, many creators…

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-calls-eu-fines-apple-meta-economic-extortion-2025-04-23/ WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – The White House said on Wednesday that fines on Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) by …

Apple said it “spent hundreds of thousands of engineering hours and made dozens of changes to comply with this law, none of which our users have asked for.”

Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app would now expand ads to all advertisers worldwide. The expansion will allow eligible advertisers to reach Threads’s o…

WhatsApp announced on Wednesday it’s launching a new feature that will allow users to add an extra layer of privacy to chats. The new “Advanced Chat Privacy” setting prevents you and the people you’re chatting with from exportin…

I didn't know that Chinese retailers bought Meta ads, but guess that makes sense since it includes Facebook but also Instagram. The research note said that Chinese companies paid Meta/Facebook $18 billion in 2024 for ad revenue, which was 11% of Me…

The European Union has fined Apple €500 million (about $568 million) and Meta €200 million (about $227 million) for allegedly breaching the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, according to The Wall Street Journal. The EU has accused Apple of failing to c…

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.The European Commission imposed a 500 million euro ($571 million) fine on Appl…