WhatsApp To Release First Short Film Starring NBA Star Giannis Antetokounmpo

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – APRIL 24: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks smiles at fans near … [+] the end of Game Four of the Eastern Conference First Round Playoffs against the Chi...

Zuckerberg asked by senators what he is doing to fight crypto scams on social media

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked in a letter from a group of Democratic senators what his company is doing to fight cryptocurrency scams on its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms. ...

What’s Up With Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse — And How Can You Get Invested?

Getty Images Key takeaways The metaverse is a somewhat-nebulous idea that blends socialization, virtual reality, augmented reality and blockchain technology Investing in the metaverse offers high risk...

Modulate Raises $30 Million To ID Bad Actors In The Metaverse, Meta Horizon VR Launches In Europe

Modulate AI Raises $30M To Bring Order To The Chaos Of Video Games. The Cambridge, MA AI company hopes to solve the problem of toxicity in online communities (Gaming, VR, Metaverse) with its ToxMod, p...

Web3 is in ‘chaos,’ metaverses in walled gardens: Randi Zuckerberg

“We’re really just scratching the surface of what we’re going to see [in the metaverse],” said Randi Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media. Wildpixel | Istock | G...

Medical Miracles With VR, Gym Class B-Ball Funded, New AR Smartglasses

Surgeons using VR and hologram modern virtual screen interface Respiratory System in the operating … [+] room, innovative and future of medical and healthcare technology getty Conjoined twins se...

Tech companies, banks overstaffed while airlines, hotels need workers

JetBlue Airways passengers in a crowded terminal on April 7, 2022 in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images News | Getty Ima...

Meta’s metaverse division lost $2.8 billion in Q2 2022

Meta reported losses of $2.8 billion for its metaverse-focused division, Reality Labs, as the firm missed on earnings and revenue for the second quarter. The tech giant’s shares dropped as much ...

Here Comes Another Facebook Overhaul That’ll Leave News Publishers Scrambling

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and … [+] Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC...

Google Begins Field-Testing AR Glasses Prototype

Topline Google will begin sending prototypes of its new augmented reality glasses into real-world testing, the company announced Tuesday, as the technology giant makes a fresh attempt to field wearabl...

Kohl’s, Micron, Apple and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Kohl’s (KSS) – Kohl’s tumbled 17.9% in premarket trading after the retailer confirmed an earlier CNBC report that it ended talks t...

Mark Zuckerberg envisions 1 billion people in the metaverse

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday that the metaverse could be a considerable part of the social network operator’s business in the second half of the d...

We’re an entertainment app, not a social network like Facebook

ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app is displayed in the App Store on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images TikTok is fully aware t...

Meta Investigation Into Sheryl Sandberg’s Use Of Company Resources Reaches Back Several Years, Report Says

Topline Meta is investigating former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s use of professional resources for personal matters over a period of several years, the Wall Street Journal reported Frida...

Google And Meta Preview New AR Prototypes

Google showed off its new AR smart glasses concept at its developer conference. Google Google made some big AR announcements at its annual developer conference, Google I/O, starting with upgrades to M...

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...

Mark Zuckerberg And Kamala Harris On Russia’s Latest Odd Sanction List

Topline Russia imposed personal sanctions against a remarkably odd list of Americans on Thursday, including Meta’s billionaire founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Vice President Kamala Harris and several...

Meta plans to take a nearly 50% cut on NFT sales in its metaverse

Facebook on Thursday announced that it is opening up Horizon World, its virtual reality world of avatars, to anyone 18 and older in the U.S. and Canada. Courtesy of Meta Facebook-parent Meta is planni...

The metaverse stole the show at Mobile World Congress

SK Telecom’s “4D Metaverse” ride at Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Ryan Browne | CNBC BARCELONA — Mobile World Congress made a big comeback this year — but the term ...

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...

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...

Five Social Networks Defending Against Blockchain Disruption

Getty Images, Illustration by Forbes Social networks are really the ultimate middlemen. We yearn for communication; they orchestrate it, reaping hefty profits—a situation ripe for disruption by blockc...

Facebook Faces An ‘Existential Moment’ After $230 Billion Stock Crash

Topline Shares of Facebook-parent Meta fell over 25% on Thursday—erasing over $230 billion in market value for its worst trading session in history—after the company’s dismal quarterly earnings report...