Facebook in crisis – The Cryptonomist

The company of Zuckerberg and co., initially conceived as a service platform for Harvard University students, has come a long way. But now Facebook, after almost 20 years, seems to be in crisis.  From...

Facebook Takes Down Fake Accounts Targeting Ukraine, Warns Of Hacking Attempts Against Ukrainian Public Figures

Topline Facebook on Monday said it had taken down several fake accounts, pages and groups that were engaging in a disinformation campaign targeting Ukraine while issuing a warning about increased targ...

Sony Unveils Playstation VR2, Meta Backlash, Groped In VR Chat

If the press is to be believed, the Metaverse is clearly headed for a “trough of disillusion,” where it will likely languish for some time, perhaps until it actually exists. This has to be...

Zuckerberg Gets Kicked Out of the Billionaires Top 10 Club

And you thought you had problems. Meta Platforms  (FB) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been booted off of the top 10 list of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as ...

Adam Young’s Digital Marketing Tools Drive Event Tickets Center’s $100 Million+ Annual Sales

Adam Young, CEO of Event Tickets Center . What can one man build by learning how to combine an emotion driven irrational market with increasingly sophisticated digital marketing? Adam Young brought hi...

Facebook Says It’s Not Responsible for Crypto Scam Ads Featuring Billionaire Andrew Forrest

Earlier this month, Australian billion Andrew Forrest announced that he will be taking Facebook to the court on account of several crypto scams ads running on the platform under his name. However, in ...

World Watches Potential War In Ukraine—But Americans On Facebook Show Little Interest

Topline As world leaders race to stave off a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine that could lead to Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II, Americans’ attention on Facebook was largely t...

Privacy Changes To Google Cross-App Tracking Could Stir Stocks

SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Key Takeaways Google Play will introduce stricter privacy policies for users Major tech companies like Facebook could take a hit if they don’t come up with new...

Zuckerberg Makes Big Changes at Facebook (It’s Funny and Ridiculous)

Mark Zuckerberg wants to completely cut off all ties between Facebook  (FB) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report and the controversies that have marked the daily life of the social media gia...

Facial recognition, big cause on Facebook- The Cryptonomist

Meta (Facebook’s current name), has been sent a heavy envelope from the state of Texas filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over the violation of privacy and the misuse of Texans’ biometric data in co...

Is Facebook Done with Crypto?

Facebook unveiled its ambitious cryptocurrency plan in June 2020: it partnered with a couple of dozens of other companies to launch a stablecoin project, then called Libra and now Diem. But, now that’...

Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper. Should I Buy the Former Facebook?

Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...

Inside Peter Thiel’s Life After Facebook

Peter Thiel, Partner, Founders Fund, speaks at the New York Times DealBook conference on November 1, 2018 in New York City. Getty Images Come May, Peter Thiel plans to leave a post he has held for 18 ...

Breaking: Peter Thiel To Step Down From Board Of Meta (Facebook)

One of Facebook’s first investors and its longest-serving outside board member, Peter Thiel, is about to leave the social-media behemoth, parent firm Meta Platforms Inc. According to the report on CNB...

Asana CEO Has Bought $1 Billion of Company Stock in Historic Buying Spree

Text size Asana co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz has bought more than $1 billion worth of the company’s stock since last June. Courtesy Asana In what is likely the most aggressive run of insi...

Facebook Facing Criminal Charge Over Crypto Scam

As if Facebook didn’t already have enough on its plate. After seeing its cryptocurrency dreams come to a sudden end, the social media giant is now facing a massive lawsuit from Australian billionaire ...

Immerse Yourself In The Metaverse With These Three Stocks

. The metaverse and what it is may be difficult to comprehend, as there really is not one good or service that fully encompasses its meaning. In short, the metaverse is a way in which users will be ab...

Facebook Stock Is Rising. Today’s the Day It Might End Its Slide.

Text size Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Alex Wong/Getty Images Wednesday just might be the day that shares of Meta Platforms , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, bounce off rock bo...

Earnings Season Shows Zooming Demand For The Cloud

AWS (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) Getty Images The demand for scalable computer processing and data storage has never been higher. So far, it is the not-so-surprising big take away from fourth quart...

A Surprising New Link Between Spotify, Facebook—And Coinbase

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong attends Consensus 2019 at the Hilton Midtown on May 15, 2019 in New York City. Getty Images A couple weeks ago, it would’ve been hard to identify a great deal of common th...

TikTok Doubles Share Of Ad Spend, AdTech Consolidation Hits 29%

The number of top ad networks dropped by about a third in the last year as the rich got richer in mobile advertising. TikTok, in particular, grew very fast, doubling the share of ad spend it captured....

The Ugly, Broken Price Charts Of Amazon, Meta (Formerly Facebook) And Netflix

close up shot of a digital stock market tracking graph follwing a recent crash in prices. Bear … [+] market 3D illustration getty Big name, big tech stocks aren’t supposed to drop 25% in very sh...

Meta: no closure for Instagram and Facebook

Yesterday, when the news began to circulate that Meta had threatened the closure of Facebook and Instagram in Europe, many suspected that it was a bluff or even a hoax.  Meta’s denial The official den...

77% of People Don’t Want Facebook to Create a Metaverse

The Zuck is not to be trusted, it seems. If you have concerns about the future of the metaverse being dominated by Facebook and other tech giants like Microsoft, then you are not alone, according to a...

Peter Thiel Leaving Meta Board To Focus On Pro-Trump Politics

Topline Billionaire Peter Thiel—one of Facebook’s earliest investors—plans to leave Meta’s board of directors, the company announced Monday, and plans to focus on influencing November’s midterm electi...

Meta Warns That Europe Could Lose Facebook, Instagram

Europe could be looking at a Facebook- and Instagram-free future, according to parent company Meta’s latest annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The tech giant took issue with Euro...

Nvidia becomes 7th-largest U.S. company as it passes Facebook owner Meta for the first time

Nvidia Corp. became the seventh-largest U.S. company Monday as it overtook Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. for the first time. A reshuffling among the ranks of the most valuable U.S. companies ref...

Meta is threatening to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe?

European regulators are making it difficult for Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to transfer user data back to the United States. Consequently, the American multinational warns, it might have to shut d...

Why is Meta threatening to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe?

European regulators are making it difficult for Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to transfer user data back to the United States. Consequently, the American multinational warns, it might have to shut d...

Facebook Might Face Regulatory Scrutiny with its Metaverse Developments

Feb 07, 2022 at 13:01 // News It seems regulators will not leave Meta, the parent company behind Facebook and Instagram, alone, even after the company abandoned its cryptocurrency projects. The new re...

Is Bitcoin Becoming Just Another Tech Stock?

Investors are not being paid for their risks in Bitcoin versus the Nasdaq. KMR Images It’s been a wild start of the year for crypto. Anyone with a Coinbase account has been getting notifications on th...

As Facebook flounders, here’s why these META wordplay tokens are up by 1700%, 200%

Following its alliance with the crypto-sector, Meta [née Facebook] struggled to stay afloat as the company lost $251 billion in value within 24 hours and stock prices plunged by 28.69% over the last m...