Meta taps Polygon to build NFT platform for Instagram, Facebook

Polygon has partnered with Meta to create an NFT platform for Instagram and Facebook, Polygon CEO Ryan Wyatt announced via Twitter. The partnership will expose Polygon’s blockchain ecosystem to Meta’s...

Meta’s Instagram Tests NFTs as Facebook Plans to Follow Suit Soon, Says Zuckerburg

In a conversation with web3 entrepreneur Tom Bilyeu, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Instagram has begun testing NFTs. One of Meta’s other platforms, Facebook, will soon adopt similar functiona...

Ethereum NFTs Come to Instagram This Week—And Facebook Is Next

In brief Instagram will let NFT collectors and creators display verified NFT collectibles starting this week. Facebook will also support displaying verified NFT collectibles “soon,” per Meta. Followin...

Ethereum, Polygon, Solana NFTs Finally Coming To Over 3 Billion Facebook and Instagram Users ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp NFTs have risen in cultural symbolism and importance since taking center stage in 2021 and, as such, have seen massive adoption and integration. Furt...

Facebook Makes Changes to Respond to Slowing Growth

Facebook  (FB) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report is preparing for difficult days ahead.  The social media giant has just taken steps to reduce its costs in anticipation of the slowdown in...

Web 3.0 To Change The Landscape Of Social Media And Online Content

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the US Senate Commerce, … [+] Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, April...

Will Jack Dorsey Roll $1 Billion In Stock Into The New Twitter?

Photo by MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images. AFP via Getty Images It seems ironic that just weeks ago many in the investment community were questioning Elon Musk’s ability to finance a bid for Twitter a...

Teachers’ Union Pushes Facebook Owner Meta To Take Closer Look At ‘Harms’ To Children

Topline The American Federation of Teachers on Wednesday encouraged the leaders of its members’ pension funds to support an independent evaluation of Facebook owner Meta’s risk management practices, w...

Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Halts SPAC Plans Amid Market Volatility

B Capital—an investment firm led by Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin and former Bain Capital executive Raj Ganguly—won’t pursue an earlier plan to launch a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)...

Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Abandons SPAC Plans Amid Market Volatility

B Capital—an investment firm led by Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin and former Bain Capital executive Raj Ganguly—won’t pursue an earlier plan to launch a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)...

Earnings Season Has Been Just One More Reason to Sell Stocks

Text size Apple dropped 3.7% on Friday after its outlook disappointed. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg The only takeaway to be drawn from a volatile week of earnings reports was that we shouldn’t get our hopes ...

Metaverse Is Here And Zuckerberg Claims Leadership With The Opening Of Meta Store

“A big part of our next chapter is going to hopefully be contributing to building that [metaverse], … [+] in partnership with a lot of other companies and creators and developers,” s...

The New Metaverse Book

I wrote Charlie Fink’s Metaverse in 2017. It was “An AR-enabled Guide to VR and AR,” so in this context I was using the Metaverse as a metaphor for the connection of everything in immersive tech, whic...

Facebook’s Transformation Is Being Slowed by A Big Rival

They say looking at the stars is like looking hundreds of millions of years into the past since those celestial bodies are so far away that the light they emanate takes eons to travel to our tiny plan...

Opinion: Big Tech is no longer winning as big, but these two stocks still seem safe

The Big Tech earnings boom is officially over, but some of the world’s most powerful and valuable companies are breaking off from the pack. As this column told you months ago, profit increases are no ...

Facebook parent Meta’s stock is soaring today — here’s why

Shares of Facebook parent Meta (FB) soared in early trading Thursday on the back of its Q1 earnings report. Shares of the social media giant were up more than 14% despite a miss on revenue expectation...

Jim Cramer says he’d buy Facebook after earnings beat, but it’s too soon for ‘a victory lap’

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that Facebook parent Meta is a buy after the social media platform beat Wall Street expectations on earnings in its first quarter. “While it’s too soo...

Here’s Why Meta Stock Is Surging 13% Despite Underwhelming Quarterly Results

Topline Despite missing first quarter revenue estimates, shares of Facebook parent company Meta surged roughly 13% on Thursday after reporting solid user growth, which bounced back from a small declin...

Meta Shares Soar as Facebook Returns to User Growth

(Bloomberg) — Facebook’s main social network added more users than projected in the first quarter, potentially staving off concerns that the company is losing momentum as a new generation flocks...

Apple says it’s not benefiting from iOS changes that burned Facebook

The battle between Apple (AAPL) and Facebook parent Meta (FB) continues to heat up, as the iPhone maker released a new report on Tuesday it says refutes accusations that it profits handsomely from iOS...

Facebook Parent Meta Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size For the March quarter, Meta projected revenue of between $27 billion and $29 billion. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Facebook ’s parent Meta Platforms will release its first-quarter financ...

Opinion: Google’s earnings should be a warning to investors in Facebook and other online-ad companies

Google’s earnings shortfall is an indication of trouble across the online-advertising industry, and should scare investors in Facebook and other competitors. Google parent company Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,...

Former President Donald Trump Says He Won’t Come Back To Twitter : Pushing Truth Social

President Trump Issues Executive Order Against Social Media Companies (Photo by Doug … [+]g Mills-Pool/Getty Images). Getty Images Yesterday’s announcement that the Twitter TWTR Board had found ...

A Conversation With Pedro Macosta About His journey Into The world of Cryptocurrency And How It Was Born From a Facebook Group

– Advertisement – Here is a fascinating story about a group of people who met on Facebook and got together to start a community cryptocurrency with big ambitions but with a simple, jargon-...

Ben Shapiro Cheering Florida’s Math Textbook Ban Topped Facebook This Week

Topline Florida’s move to ban 41% of proposed math textbooks–in part over allegations the books contained banned references to critical race theory–contributed to the top Facebook li...

Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.

Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...

What The Price Charts Tell Us

FAANG is an acronym Of the 5 strong stocks in the Nasdaq technology stocks index. getty They used to call these the FAANG stocks but I haven’t seen that term employed too much lately. Maybe it’s becau...

Is Facebook the next tech stock to get routed like Netflix?

Meta’s stock (FB) remains a dog with fleas, especially going into the company’s April 27 Q1 2022 earnings report. That is the hot take from veteran tech analyst Mark Mahaney at EvercoreISI...

Facebook parent Meta set to take nearly 50% cut from virtual sales — and Apple is calling it out

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.’s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within its emerging metaverse is drawing widespread criticism from developers and longtime nemesis Apple In...

Facebook Whistleblower Rebukes Meta’s ‘Grandiose Promises’ for Metaverse Safety

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has once again taken aim at her former employer, arguing that the social media giant’s plans for the metaverse could lead to a “repeat of all the harms” caused by...

Meta Stock Might Have Another Round of Weaker Earnings Ahead

Text size Meta stock saw a couple of price target cuts as analysts worried about its coming earnings report. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Wall Street is bracing for another rough quarter for Facebook ...

Facebook whistleblower warns Metaverse will repeat ‘all the harms’

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has taken aim at Meta in a new interview, suggesting that its version of the Metaverse will simply repeat all of its past mistakes. In an interview with Politico,...