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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch.

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Meta Settles Landmark $1.4 Billion Biometrics Suit With Texas
Meta Settles Landmark $1.4 Billion Biometrics Suit With Texas
July 30, 2024  |  Legal

Meta will pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a biometrics-related lawsuit in Texas. In a Tuesday (July 30) news release, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...

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Report: Meta Facing EU Fine for Linking Facebook and Marketplace
Report: Meta Facing EU Fine for Linking Facebook and Marketplace
July 25, 2024  |  ANTITRUST

Meta Platforms is reportedly facing its first antitrust fine in the European Union (EU). That fine could be handed down in a few weeks in response...

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Meta Expands Business Subscription Program to India
Meta Expands Business Subscription Program to India
July 22, 2024  |  Meta

Meta said it is expanding its business subscription program to users in India. The tech giant last year introduced Meta Verified for businesses on Facebook and Instagram, and...

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Stability AI Secures ‘Significant’ Investment, Names CEO, Executive Chairman
Stability AI Secures ‘Significant’ Investment, Names CEO, Executive Chairman
June 25, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Stability AI said Tuesday (June 25) that it secured “significant” new funding from an investment group and appointed a new CEO and a new executive...

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Meta Platforms to Introduce Free AI Chatbots on WhatsApp
Meta Platforms to Introduce Free AI Chatbots on WhatsApp
June 07, 2024  |  Meta

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, is planning to introduce free artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on WhatsApp as part of its strategy to monetize...

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Meta’s AI Training Plans Targeted by EU Privacy Group
Meta’s AI Training Plans Targeted by EU Privacy Group
June 06, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Meta’s plans for training its AI have run afoul of a European privacy group. Vienna-based NOYB — the European Center for Digital Rights —  said Thursday (June 6)...

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Will Gen Z Put a New Face on Social Commerce?
Will Gen Z Put a New Face on Social Commerce?
June 04, 2024  |  Social Commerce

Meta’s recent news that it is seeing a surge in younger users may help set the stage for a rising tide in social commerce. The...

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Facebook Records Highest Young Adult Use in Three Years
Facebook Records Highest Young Adult Use in Three Years
June 02, 2024  |  Meta

Meta Platforms says young adults are flocking to Facebook. “Facebook is still for everyone, but in order to build for the next generation of social...

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Meta Earnings Announcement Goes Big on AI
Meta Earnings Announcement Goes Big on AI
April 24, 2024  |  Meta

If anyone had any doubts about Meta’s long-term commitment to artificial intelligence (AI), they were erased in the first minute of the company’s earnings call on Wednesday (April...

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