Photo Credit: Dima Solomin On Monday, reports suggested that Facebook and Instagram parent Meta was preparing to make largescale layoffs. Now, the Menlo Park-headquartered company has officially followed through and cut north of 11,000 team […]
Photo Credit: Dima Solomin On Monday, reports suggested that Facebook and Instagram parent Meta was preparing to make largescale layoffs. Now, the Menlo Park-headquartered company has officially followed through and cut north of 11,000 team […]
Twitter isn’t the only social media platform that’s going through major restructuring. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, may begin “large-scale layoffs” as soon as Wednesday (November 9), according to new reports. […]
Photo Credit: James Owen Meta has announced an AI-powered audio compression method that supposedly delivers ten times better compression than the MP3 format. The audio compression method is called ‘EnCodec,’ which Meta debuted on October […]
Back in the prehistoric era — in 2012, when Facebook staged one of the most hyped initial public stock offerings of all time — I warned the company’s newly minted shareholders that they had become […]
Meta has announced that it’s testing minting and selling NFTs on Instagram, like you can with many traditional NFT marketplaces, with a “small group of creators in the US” getting access to the feature first. […]
Virtual reality is for checking out. The wider the field of vision and the less light peeking in, the better. But as VR becomes more mainstream, there needs to be a way to quickly check […]
I recently decided that I was going to figure out how to play custom Beat Saber tracks on my Meta Quest 2, no matter what it took. Thankfully, the free program I ended up using, […]
One month after Facebook banned his Holocaust film, director Joshua Newton is suing its parent company Meta Platforms, Inc., for $700 million, alleging breach of contract, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Newton further […]
Photo Credit: Alexander Shatov Meta says it is opening its catalog of ‘free, high-quality songs’ to Reels advertisers on Instagram. Meta saw 30% more engagement with its Reels across both Facebook and Instagram in Q2 […]
Anti-Flag have shared the new song “Modern Meta Medicine” featuring guest vocals from Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach. The track arrives ahead of Anti-Flag’s forthcoming album, Lies They Tell Our Children, out January 6th. The […]
Photo Credit: Dima Solomin Towards July’s end, Epidemic Sound filed a firmly worded copyright infringement complaint against Meta. Now, the Facebook parent company has officially moved to dismiss the action due in large part to […]
Photo Credit: Muhammad Asyfaul A Texas jury has ordered Meta to pay $175 million for patent infringement to walkie-talkie app Voxer. Voxer first filed the patent infringement lawsuit in 2020 against Facebook for incorporating its […]
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram was ordered to pay nearly $175 million for violating patents held by the maker of a push-to-talk app founded by a former Green Beret who had sought to […]
Meta has been testing support for NFT “digital collectible” posts on Instagram since May, and if you’re among the expanding group of people with access, then you can now share posts with your blockchain-verified items […]
If you’ve bought an Meta (formerly known as Oculus) Quest or Quest 2 virtual reality headset in the past few years, you’ve likely had to set it up using a Facebook account. While that makes […]
Andrew Tate’s money-making academy Hustler’s University has shut down its affiliate marketing program, the process by which “students” could earn a commission for each new member that signed up using their links. Users of the […]
Warner Music Group (WMG) has officially finalized a new licensing deal with Facebook parent company Meta. The Big Three record label unveiled the freshly inked pact with Meta during its Q2 2022 earnings call, after […]
Photo Credit: Instagram Instagram expands NFT support in more than 100 countries with Flow blockchain support and integration with Coinbase and Dapper. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is expanding its NFT support […]
Amid much-publicized licensing battles with Kobalt Music and Epidemic Sound, Meta has officially announced “music revenue sharing,” which higher-ups say will enable Facebook creators to avoid demonetization on – and collect payments from – videos […]