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After Twitter, Meta Platforms likely to fire thousands of employees

Will be first broad headcount reduction in the tech giant's 18-year history

WhatsApp Communities: What is it, how it works, and how to get started

WhatsApp's Communities feature allow users to manage multiple groups by bringing them under one umbrella

Ajit Mohan quits as head of Meta India; Manish Chopra interim chief

Meta Platforms announced that Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director of its India unit has stepped down from his role to pursue another opportunity outside of the company

Randi Zuckerberg bats for more women to participate in Web3, crypto

Zuckerberg also toured several startup and venture capital offices and met many investors and founders in Bengaluru

Mark Zuckerberg announces 32-person video call on WhatsApp: Details here

The new feature will allow admins to better organise the conversations "under one umbrella", Zuckerberg added

Instagram down for several users, days after global WhatsApp outage

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, at the peak of the outage, over 7,000 users reported being unable to log in

How will metaverse change the shopping experience?

Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on his efforts to take metaverse to the next level, despite investors' pessimism. So where does metaverse stand now? And how it may change your shopping experience?

Meta's $677 billion rout boots it out of the world's top 20 stocks

Net profit cut in half, even as Zuckerberg seeks 'patience' from investors

Facebook announces 2022 Community Accelerator participants in India

Four-month programme provides selected community leaders of Facebook groups with training, mentorship and funding

Mark Zuckerberg asks for 'patience' as Meta's costs spook investors

Zuckerberg said he is confident that Meta's largest bets in areas such as short-form video, business messaging and the metaverse were headed in the right direction

Meta plans to launch consumer-grade virtual reality headset next year

Recently, Meta had unveiled a VR headset Meta Quest Pro that was packed with features like full-colour mixed reality and was priced at $1,500

JioMart on WhatsApp a big opportunity for us: CEO Mark Zuckerberg

As Meta doubles down on its monetisation drive across its family of apps, Mark Zuckerberg has said that JioMart on WhatsApp in India is going to be a big opportunity for the paid messaging market

Turkey authority fines Meta $18.63 million for violating competition law

Turkey's Competition Authority announced on Wednesday that it has fined Meta Platforms Inc. 346.72 million liras ($18.63 million) for violating competition law

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should focus on US midterms, not the Metaverse

Meta CEO Zuckerberg could start by doing what thousands of managers before him have done, and reconsider his tasks

Instagram introduces new feature to protect users from abuse: Details here

The company is starting to test automatically turning on Hidden Words for Creator accounts

Meta starts ad campaign against Apple's iMessage to promote Whatsapp

Recently, the Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp had released the ability to add up to 1,024 participants to groups, for some beta testers

SC clears decks for CCI probe into WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy

The apex court cleared the decks for the regulator to further probe and reach finality in the case it initiated in March 2021 against WhatsApp for alleged abuse of dominance

Zuckerberg loses over 119 mn followers on Facebook, less than 10k left now

Several users of Meta's Facebook are complaining losing majority of their followers on the social media platform due to unknown reasons. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost over 119 million followers which has brought down his follower count to below 10,000. "Facebook created a tsunami that wiped away my almost 900,000 followers and left only 9000 something on the shore. I kind of like Facebook's comedy," exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen tweeted. When contacted, a Meta spokesperson said, We're aware that some people are seeing inconsistent follower count on their Facebook profiles. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Meta wants you to work in virtual reality - here's what that's like

Meta Platforms Inc has made it clear that it wants to infiltrate the business world with virtual reality technology

Zuckerberg sets for 'Meta Connect' amid quality issues with VR project

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to announce the company's progress towards building the $10 billion metaverse, as internal reports claim there are still several quality issues