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European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules. The European…
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg returned to Washington this week, testifying in a landmark trial that could force the world’s largest social network to break off Instagram and…
Mark Zuckerberg’s marathon stint on the stand in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust trial against Meta—the parent company of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook—has been…
When President Trump returned to the White House, tech executives from Apple, OpenAI, Oracle and other companies pledged to create thousands of jobs, fuel innovation and invest billions of…
Startup founder Tara Langdale-Schmidt says her company’s devices, known as VuVa, are designed to soothe the pelvic and vaginal pain and discomfort that she and millions of other women have…
APOLLO Global Management is in talks to lead a roughly US$35 billion financing package for Meta Platforms to help develop data centres in the US, according to sources with knowledge of the…
John Oliver took aim at Mark Zuckerberg in a new episode of “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday, roasting the Meta CEO for both his new look and for removing fact-checking on Facebook and…
META Platforms has cut back on its yearly distribution of stock options by about 10 per cent for tens of thousands of employees despite the social media giant trading at record highs this…
Meta has presented the Waterworth Project, an initiative aimed at building a 50,000-kilometer undersea cable that will provide internet connectivity in five continents. The company seeks…
Facebook’s parent company Meta said it’s working on the world’s longest undersea cable as part of the social media giant’s efforts to connect more people to high-speed internet. Called…
More than a decade ago, outcries about the lack of diversity in the tech industry reverberated across major Silicon Valley companies from Facebook to Google. Women and minorities spoke out…
META Platforms, after pushing into augmented reality and artificial intelligence (AI), has identified its next big bet: AI-powered humanoid robots. The company is making a significant…
Facebook said that despite the changes, it continues to disagree with the European Commission’s decision last year, which saw Meta punished for abusing its dominance META Platforms is…
META Platforms made a small change last month that’s likely to increase the company’s profit by billions of US dollars this year. It was not the release of a new product or cost cuts. It…
If your social media suitor seems too good to be true, it might be a scam. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms is urging users to stay vigilant about “romance scams” ahead…
The latest wave of firings are expected to be completed by the end of the performance cycle that goes to February META Platforms began notifying staff of job cuts on Monday (Feb 10),…
To promote their new Meta Glasses, Ray–Ban has enlisted the help of Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt and Kris Jenner. In a new commercial that debuted on Sunday during the 2025 Super Bowl,…
What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025. After following the frantic competition between OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to churn out brainier and deeper “frontier”…
Norman likens the device to “an MRI machine tipped on its side and suspended above the user’s head.” What’s more, says King, the second a subject’s head moves, the signal is lost. “Our…
The new year isn’t getting off to a great start when it comes to employment in the tech industry. Tech giant Salesforce is reportedly getting ready to cut 1,000 roles at the company. The…
Before Donald Trump kicked off his second term as president, Meta Platforms Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg took another big swing at hitting reset. In a nearly three-hour…
ALIBABA Group Holding published benchmark scores and touted what it called world-leading performance with its new artificial intelligence (AI) model release. The upgraded Qwen 2.5 Max…
META Platforms fourth-quarter revenue beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday (Jan 29) but the company predicted sales in the current first quarter may not meet forecasts, sending mixed…
META Platforms plans to spend between US$60 billion and US$65 billion this year to build out AI infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday (Jan 24), joining a wave of Big Tech…
