BREAKING: Facebook rebrands to Meta as focus expands beyond social media
The name change reflects Facebook's growing ambitions beyond online social media, a medium it helped build over the past two decades. Facebook Inc. announced Thursday that it has changed its company name to Meta — marking the first major rebrand for the social media giant. The name change, which reflects the company’s growing ambitions beyond social media, was unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook Connect conference. An accompanying news release laid out the company’s vision for creating a “metaverse” that connects online social experiences and the physical world. Facebook....
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Corporate-owned social media giant Facebook is getting ready to track you to the ends of the Metaverse and back — if you let them. Last week, Facebook rebranded to Meta and announced its plans to kickstart the development of the Metaverse — an entirely new way of interacting and navigating the internet. Now, the Metaverse landscape has a multi-billion dollar corporate behemoth vying for the helm, which has made its future all the more uncertain.Whether we like it or not, major corporations will likely play a major role in how the Metaverse develops and evolves. But will it be plagued by....