Category: Facebook
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Threads: The Rise, Criticisms, and Potential Future of Meta’s New Social Media App
Meta’s Threads skyrockets. Despite early adoption drop-off and criticism, user numbers suggest potential serious competition for existing platforms.
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Impact of the New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework on International Data Transfers
The new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework streamlines personal data transfer, addressing privacy issues and easing processes for Privacy Shield companies.
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Meta’s New Venture: How ‘Threads’ Plans to Rival Twitter
Meta is about to release a new social media app that is reminiscent of Twitter. The new venture is exciting, but its future hinges on a number of key factors.
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Meta And How Today’s AI Breakthroughs Will Shape Their Future
Meta has struggled to generate buzz for the Metaverse since their rebrand, their focus on AI recently could deliver groundbreaking innovation in the future.
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Apple Looking To Take A Cut Of Social Media
Apple is looking to take a cut from revenue generated through boosted posts on social media. Will lawmakers see this as another anticompetitive move by big tech
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Meta’s VR Challengers Announce New Headsets
Increased competition in the VR space may see Meta losing some market share.
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How Can Artificial Intelligence Help, Or Hinder, Languages?
Meta have launched their No Language Left Behind initiative, designed to decipher more that 200 languages. Does this raise questions of ownership of language.
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The future of social media is hard(ware)
Social media companies are finding themselves in a challenging position at the moment. With increased competition, difficulty in tracking performance after a number of high profile tech and regulatory changes, share prices are continuing to drop and investors begin to question the value of social media moving forward. One of the main drivers behind all…
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Meta Store IRL And A Hint At Their Next Tech
As Meta begins its journey into the metaverse, it’s looking to move into another new space, the real world, as they are launching their first physical store. Opening on May 9th in Meta’s Burlingame, California, campus, the store is their first foray into making their tech available for people to buy in person, and also…
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Meta’s Recent Announcements Paint Picture Of The Meta Future
The vision of Meta’s metaverse is starting to take shape after a couple of updates over recent weeks. There have been a few announcements recently, including attempting to launch their own currency again, as well as new tools to encourage creators to build worlds in Horizon Worlds to create a more engaging space for users…
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Facebook losing users, should we be concerned?
For the first time in 18 years, Facebook/Meta has reported a reduction in their daily active user numbers, reporting 1.929 billion for the quarter ended December 2021, compared to 1.930 billion across the previous quarter. This has raised a lot of concern, seeing Meta’s shares drop over 20% overnight, representing over $300bn NZD from their…