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WhatsApp to Launch Cloud API, Premium Features to Attract Businesses

WhatsApp is introducing free cloud-based API services in a push to get more businesses using the app, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company's messaging event on Thursday. The messaging service, which has increasingly courted business users, is one of several platforms where Facebook-owner Meta has launched more…

Asharq Al-Awsat

As Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg See Wealth Evaporate In 2022, Russia's Richest Man Vladimir Potanin Adds $4B

Over $4 billion addition in the fortune of Russia's richest man Vladimir Potanin has put him among select few billionaires globally who have seen their net wealth swell this year.

Benzinga

Why the Texas Social Media Law is a Menace to Freedom of Speech

The law forces social media firms to host and promote speech they oppose, and would set a dangerous precedent if upheld by the courts..

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Facebook: from Harvard dorm to global phenomenon

WASHINGTON: Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world's biggest social media application, which marks the tenth anniversary Wednesday of its stock market debut.

Bangkok Post

Mark Zuckerberg plays Pokémon-like AR game using Cambria headset

Mark Zuckerberg showed off one of the big improvements of Meta's next headset: full-color video passthrough.

Input

Meta Looks To Cutback In Reality Labs In Its Quest For Metaverse

Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is preparing cutbacks in its Reality Labs division to refocus on hardware products and the "metaverse," Reuters reports. Meta was not planning layoffs as part of the changes. The division could not afford to do some projects anymore and postponed others. According to Reuters, Reality Labs lost…

Benzinga

Mark Zuckerberg demoed Meta's neural interface wristband to smart glasses partners

The CEO took to Milan to show off Meta's future AR glasses controller to the executives of Italian eyeglasses brand EssilorLuxottica.

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Come June, Facebook Will No Longer Tell You When Your Friends Are Nearby

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) social media platform Facebook is reportedly pulling the plug on “Nearby Friends” and some other location-based features.

Benzinga

Whistleblowers allege Meta deliberately took down Australia's government, emergency services to negotiate news ban

Meta, formerly Facebook, denies claims the blocking of non-news pages like hospitals and charities was an intentional negotiating tactic, and says it was the result of a ‘technical error’

The Guardian - AU

Mark Zuckerberg Teases Wearable Tech with Neural Interface in Facebook Post

Meta Platforms Inc's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on Wednesday teased a new smart glasses project with EssilorLuxottica, posting a photo of the eyewear company's chairman sporting a prototype of a neural interface wristband - designed for directing other devices. "Here Leonardo is using a prototype of our neural interface EMG…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Facebook keeps pivoting to new projects — and then abandoning them

The company's been swiveling from one big effort to the next. Is it "failing fast" or just flailing?

Axios

Elon Musk's bid to take over Twitter recalls the robber barons of the 19th century

Pundits, academics and members of the public have criticized Elon Musk’s successful bid to acquire Twitter. Some Twitter users have even considered leaving the platform.

The Conversation

‘Extra level of power’: billionaires who have bought up the media

Elon Musk joins a list of men to use their wealth in the hope of extending their political influence

The Guardian - UK

Nonprofits likely under fire as Senate explores ‘dark money’

A Senate hearing on Wednesday is likely to produce fireworks as Republicans and Democrats square off over the role that foundations and nonprofits are playing in elections

The Independent UK

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Tech titans want the richest Californians to pay for pandemic preparedness

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gabe Bankman-Fried, a former Wall Street trader, has raised $12 million from a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by his brother, Sam Bankman-Fried. Dustin Moskovitz, a billionaire who roomed with Mark Zuckerberg in college and helped found Facebook in 2004, funds a nonprofit with his wife that has…

Tribune News Service

Musk engages in Twitter spat after rebuttal from Ocasio-Cortez

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk engaged in a Twitter spat with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she rebuked billionaires and delivered an indirect rebuttal to the Tesla Inc. chief executive’s tweet saying that the Democratic Party “has been hijacked by extremists.”

Salon

Holocaust survivor pleads with Elon Musk

Musk was urged not to allow Twitter to be used for Holocaust denialism under the guise of "free speech"

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Mark Zuckerberg says mass employee exodus is good, actually

Zuck's delusion continues unabated.

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Benzinga

Why Meta Platforms Shares Are Ripping Higher Today

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) shares are trading higher Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings results.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Facebook Parent Meta Calms Investors with Strong Profit

Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday reported better profit than expected in the recently ended quarter, calming investors worried about the toll of competition from TikTok and eased pandemic restrictions. Meta said it made a profit of $7.5 billion on revenue of $27.9 billion in the first three months of this…

Benzinga

Facebook Parent's Metaverse Division Loses Nearly $3B In Q1, But Mark Zuckerberg Wants To See It Through

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) said in its first-quarter earnings report that its Facebook Reality Labs division incurred a loss of $2.96 billion in the period.

Los Angeles Times

Twitter was at the forefront of content moderation. What comes next?

In 2015, a man wearing a skull mask posted a video outlining his plans to murder Brianna Wu. The skull video was only one of many such disturbing and bizarre posts targeting Wu and other women online as part of a harassment campaign dubbed GamerGate.

Al Jazeera

Russia sanctions Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Toronto mayor

The latest raft of sanctions includes more US officials, media personalities and Canada’s John Tory and Doug Ford.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Bars Entry to US VP, Other Officials and Figures

Russia on Thursday expanded an entry ban on US officials to include US Vice-President Kamala Harris and 28 other American officials, businesspeople and journalists. The sanctions list, published by the Russian foreign ministry, included Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby, among others.…

Benzinga

Meta's WhatsApp Business Fund Transfer Hits Roadblock In Brazil: FT

Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ: FB) long-awaited ambition of allowing users to send money to businesses via messaging app WhatsApp in Brazil suffered a roadblock with potential payments partners, the Financial Times reports. WhatsApp looked to launch a payments-to-merchant (p2m) function in Latin America's most populous country in 2021. However, WhatsApp has struggled to…

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