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Mark Zuckerberg Plans 30% Budget Cuts To Build Metaverse, Layoffs Loom
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook Inc.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Gamble Pays Off With $201 Billion Fortune
Buoyed by a record-high Meta Platforms Inc. share price, Zuckerberg’s net worth has climbed almost sixfold in less than two years to $201 billion (roughly Rs. 16,86,617 crore), the first time he’s exceeded the $200 billion mark (roughly Rs. 16,78,226 crore), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He’s moved to fourth place on the list...
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Meta Records 16 Percent Uptick in 2023 Annual Revenue, Metaverse Unit Still Under Loss
Meta managed to reel-in $134.9 billion in the year of 2023. On a yearly basis, Meta’s revenue spiked by 16 percent. It is, however, interesting that Meta’s Reality Labs unit has only seen losses since 2021.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Podcast Interview as Photorealistic Meta Avatar Tickles People’s Metaverse Fancies
On September 28, Mark Zuckerberg appeared for a podcast interview with YouTuber and AI researcher Lex Fridman, but the venue of this interaction was the metaverse. In photorealistic Meta avatars, the two engaged in conversation about how Zuckerberg envisioned the future of virtual reality and the metaverse.
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Mark Zuckerbergs Metaverse Lost $21 Billion On Reality Labs In Roughly 18 Months
Reality Labs, the creation of Mark Zuckerberg, appears to be suffering some serious difficulties with a large loss of $21 billion in a very brief period of 18 months.
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Metaverse Could Contribute Up to 2.4 Percent of US GDP by 2035, Says Meta Study
The metaverse could contribute as much as $760 billion (roughly Rs. 62,36,088 crore) or about 2.4 percent to US annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035, according to a study commissioned by Facebook owner Meta Platforms.
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Metaverse, AI Next Digital Markets to Come Under Regulatory Scanner, Says EU Antitrust Chief
New digital markets like the metaverse and AI will need regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday. The metaverse has come into sharper focus since Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms two years ago to reflect its bet on the new sector as the successor to the mobile Internet.
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WhatsApp Business Chat to Drive Sales Sooner Than the Metaverse, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says
WhatsApp Business chat and Messenger will drive Meta's next wave of sales growth, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. The company's Chief Executive is said to have described the WhatsApp and Messenger as being "very early in monetizing" compared to Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg was addressing concerns at a company-wide meeting which was...
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Meta to Lay Off More Than 11,000 Employees in One of Biggest US Job Cuts in 2022
Meta said on Wednesday it will let go of 13 percent of its workforce, or more than 11,000 employees, in one of the biggest tech layoffs this year as the Facebook parent battles soaring costs and a weak advertising market. The firm said it would pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service as a part of the severance ...
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Facebook Parent Meta Said to Prepare Large-Scale Layoffs This Week Ahead of Weak Holiday Quarter
Facebook parent Meta is said to be planning to begin large-scale layoffs that are expected to affect thousands of employees this week, according to a report. The company had forecasted a weak holiday quarter and said it anticipated significantly more costs next year, amid the company contending with slowing global economic growth, competition from ...
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Facebook's Meta Rebranding Clocks a Year, FTX CEO Dissects Zuckerberg’s ‘Distracting’ Decision
Facebook’s rebranding to Meta completed a year on October 28. Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the CEO of the FTX crypto exchange, who is also among the biggest investors in Web3 projects, has argued that this rebranding is not fulfilling Mark Zuckerberg’s plan of churning billions.
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Metaverse May Open Up New World of Cybercrime, Fears Interpol
Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments — the "metaverse" — could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a larger scale. Interpol's member countries have raised concerns about how to prepare for possible metaverse crime, Madan Oberoi, Interpol's execu...
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Meta Is On Brink Of Falling Out Of Top 20 Biggest US Stocks
Meta Platforms Inc. shareholders are paying dearly for its spending on the metaverse: The Facebook parent's market value has collapsed by a whopping $520 billion in the past year.
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Meta's Metaverse-Linked Division Posts Losses Close to $3.7 Billion in Q3 2022
Facebook’s parent company Meta reported that its metaverse division Reality Labs lost $3.7 billion (roughly Rs. 30,476 crore) in the third quarter of this year, bringing its accumulated losses in 2022 to $9.4 billion (roughly Rs. 77,386 crore), according to its third-quarter financial report on Wednesday.
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Mark Zuckerberg Plans 30% Budget Cuts To Build Metaverse, Layoffs Loom
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook Inc.
-
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Gamble Pays Off With $201 Billion Fortune
Buoyed by a record-high Meta Platforms Inc. share price, Zuckerberg’s net worth has climbed almost sixfold in less than two years to $201 billion (roughly Rs. 16,86,617 crore), the first time he’s exceeded the $200 billion mark (roughly Rs. 16,78,226 crore), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He’s moved to fourth place on the list...
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Meta Records 16 Percent Uptick in 2023 Annual Revenue, Metaverse Unit Still Under Loss
Meta managed to reel-in $134.9 billion in the year of 2023. On a yearly basis, Meta’s revenue spiked by 16 percent. It is, however, interesting that Meta’s Reality Labs unit has only seen losses since 2021.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Podcast Interview as Photorealistic Meta Avatar Tickles People’s Metaverse Fancies
On September 28, Mark Zuckerberg appeared for a podcast interview with YouTuber and AI researcher Lex Fridman, but the venue of this interaction was the metaverse. In photorealistic Meta avatars, the two engaged in conversation about how Zuckerberg envisioned the future of virtual reality and the metaverse.
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Mark Zuckerbergs Metaverse Lost $21 Billion On Reality Labs In Roughly 18 Months
Reality Labs, the creation of Mark Zuckerberg, appears to be suffering some serious difficulties with a large loss of $21 billion in a very brief period of 18 months.
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Metaverse Could Contribute Up to 2.4 Percent of US GDP by 2035, Says Meta Study
The metaverse could contribute as much as $760 billion (roughly Rs. 62,36,088 crore) or about 2.4 percent to US annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035, according to a study commissioned by Facebook owner Meta Platforms.
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Metaverse, AI Next Digital Markets to Come Under Regulatory Scanner, Says EU Antitrust Chief
New digital markets like the metaverse and AI will need regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday. The metaverse has come into sharper focus since Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms two years ago to reflect its bet on the new sector as the successor to the mobile Internet.
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WhatsApp Business Chat to Drive Sales Sooner Than the Metaverse, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says
WhatsApp Business chat and Messenger will drive Meta's next wave of sales growth, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. The company's Chief Executive is said to have described the WhatsApp and Messenger as being "very early in monetizing" compared to Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg was addressing concerns at a company-wide meeting which was...
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Meta to Lay Off More Than 11,000 Employees in One of Biggest US Job Cuts in 2022
Meta said on Wednesday it will let go of 13 percent of its workforce, or more than 11,000 employees, in one of the biggest tech layoffs this year as the Facebook parent battles soaring costs and a weak advertising market. The firm said it would pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service as a part of the severance ...
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Facebook Parent Meta Said to Prepare Large-Scale Layoffs This Week Ahead of Weak Holiday Quarter
Facebook parent Meta is said to be planning to begin large-scale layoffs that are expected to affect thousands of employees this week, according to a report. The company had forecasted a weak holiday quarter and said it anticipated significantly more costs next year, amid the company contending with slowing global economic growth, competition from ...
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Facebook's Meta Rebranding Clocks a Year, FTX CEO Dissects Zuckerberg’s ‘Distracting’ Decision
Facebook’s rebranding to Meta completed a year on October 28. Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the CEO of the FTX crypto exchange, who is also among the biggest investors in Web3 projects, has argued that this rebranding is not fulfilling Mark Zuckerberg’s plan of churning billions.
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Metaverse May Open Up New World of Cybercrime, Fears Interpol
Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments — the "metaverse" — could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a larger scale. Interpol's member countries have raised concerns about how to prepare for possible metaverse crime, Madan Oberoi, Interpol's execu...
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Meta Is On Brink Of Falling Out Of Top 20 Biggest US Stocks
Meta Platforms Inc. shareholders are paying dearly for its spending on the metaverse: The Facebook parent's market value has collapsed by a whopping $520 billion in the past year.
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Meta's Metaverse-Linked Division Posts Losses Close to $3.7 Billion in Q3 2022
Facebook’s parent company Meta reported that its metaverse division Reality Labs lost $3.7 billion (roughly Rs. 30,476 crore) in the third quarter of this year, bringing its accumulated losses in 2022 to $9.4 billion (roughly Rs. 77,386 crore), according to its third-quarter financial report on Wednesday.
