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Meta’s body blow layoff announcement will see the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp making its first-ever major layoffs as a company, cutting 11,000 employees, 13% of its total; predictably investors are responding favorably, bumping the stock up by over 5% in pre-market trading. While the dust settles and we start to get an idea […] Filing: Meta slashes expenses on reduced hiring and capex investments by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp’s parent company Meta has confirmed a huge round of layoffs, amounting to 11,000 employees or 13% of its workforce. “I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here,” CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a statement. “I know this is tough for everyone, and I’m […] Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Ajit Mohan, the head of Meta in India has left the firm and joined rival Snap, according to sources familiar with the matter. At Snap, Mohan will serve as the President of the APAC business, two sources said. Mohan joined Meta, called Facebook then, in January 2019 as a VP and MD of the India […] Meta India head Ajit Mohan departs to join Snap by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta announced today that’s introducing a number of new creator updates across Instagram and Facebook. Most notably, the company revealed that creators on Instagram will soon be able to create their own NFTs and sell them directly to fans, both on and off Instagram. With this update, creators will have access to a toolkit that […] Instagram will soon allow select creators to make and sell NFTs directly in its app by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Some three years after first introducing a curated news section for publishers, Meta has confirmed that it’s ditching the humans and leaning entirely on algorithms for Facebook News in all markets where it’s available. Meta, then known simply as Facebook, first introduced Facebook News back in 2019, kicking off initially to a small subset of […] Meta to ditch human-curated Facebook News stories globally by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta has announced the global expansion of its professional mode profile setting on Facebook to all creators. Professional mode is designed to be used by creators looking to monetize their followings on the social network. Facebook began testing professional mode with select creators in December 2021 and is now offering it to anyone on its […] Facebook expands its professional mode profile setting to all creators globally by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

If you’ve worked at large tech companies, you’ve probably seen that a bunch of groups show up, whether officially or unofficially. Google calls ’em Employee Resource Groups (ERG), Facebook has its internal version of Facebook with groups, and other orgs have systems that range from listservs that have been running since the 1990s, to internal […] Heylo wants to help you build your own little social circles for events by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

While Mark Zuckerberg burns billions at the alter of the metaverse, a much more practical opportunity directly in his company’s lane could provide much more achievable short-term success: Twitter’s having an identify crisis under new owner Elon Musk. Despite showing signs that its social media business isn’t what it once was, Meta’s Facebook and Instagram […] Forget the metaverse: Meta should make a new Twitter by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch... →

A day after weighing in with its third quarter earnings report, Meta is flailing. The company formerly known as Facebook was in trouble Thursday after uninspiring numbers and an apparent lack of faith in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision sent its shares plunging by 25%. At the time of writing, Meta was trading around $98, down […] Meta is in trouble by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

On today’s quarterly earnings call, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on the defensive when it comes to the company’s investment in the metaverse. Once again, the company lost over $3 billion dollars to its Reality Labs division this quarter, and Meta’s net income took a big hit. Since rebranding from Facebook to Meta, […] Y’all really made Mark Zuckerberg defend himself to investors because of your memes by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

На прошлой неделе мне случилось написать тред в Твиттере, который явно “зашел” аудитории и даже разлетелся по самым разным социальным сетям. Честно сказать, я на такой эффект не рассчитывал — не первый тред пишу, примерно представляю себе возможный эффект. Он есть целиком в виде записи в блоге. Поскольку аудитория в твиттере у меня немаленькая, то я совершенно не удивлялся быстро растущему количеству лайков и ретвитов, хотя и отметил, что оно подрастает быстрее, чем обычно. Но через несколько часов случилос... →

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instant messaging app with over 2 billion users, appears to be facing an outage, according to users. DownDetector and WaBetaInfo, two web services that track the Facebook app, have confirmed the outage. The outage began about 12.20 AM PT, according to user complaints. DownDetector shows that users in the U.S. and India […] WhatsApp appears to be facing an outage by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Hi, friends! It’s time for another edition of Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. most read LEGS: The company formerly known as Facebook held its Meta Connect conference this week, where […] Meta announces legs, Hulu raises prices, and Microsoft embraces DALL-E 2 by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch... →

Moments before Meta’s big annual developer conference was set to begin, TechCrunch’s staff scrambled to see who had a charged Meta Quest headset, which it turned out was nobody. But because I knew what corner of the closet mine was in (upper left), here I am. After merging my work Facebook account (Taylor Linguini) with […] My virtual torso went to Meta Connect 2022 by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

Last year at Meta Connect, the company then known as Facebook dropped a bombshell: it would now be known as Meta and focus on building the “metaverse.” After investing billions of dollars into the future of virtual reality, the rebranded Meta came back this year for its next big announcement: legs. Yes, avatars are going […] Here’s what you missed at Meta Connect 2022 by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta didn’t hold back with their announcements at Meta Connect this year. As Facebook has done every year or so, the company is shaking up their avatar product. This year, the company made a big addition to their updated higher-detail avatars: legs. The announcement that the avatars, which were previously floating torsos with arms and […] Meta announces legs by Lucas Matney originally published on TechCrunch... →

Huge news for, like, five people: you can take videos on Horizon Worlds and share them to Facebook and Instagram Reels, Meta’s TikTok clone. At today’s Meta Connect event, the company formerly known as Facebook announced this new way to share content from Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship social VR app. Despite launching about a year […] No one asked for this, but you can share Horizon Worlds videos to Instagram Reels by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

Earlier this year, when we covered the news that Meta had signed on fast food giant McDonald’s as a customer for Workplace, the B2B service that was originally conceived as a Facebook for enterprises, we noted that Workplace the product had, curiously, been moved into a larger “Reality Labs” division to bring it closer to […] Meta’s next enterprise push is into the metaverse by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Mark Zuckerberg will make his impassioned pleas that the metaverse is a real thing and a valid Next Big Business for Meta (neé The Facebook) on Tuesday. The annual Meta Connect developer conference kicks off with a keynote starting at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT, which is followed immediately by a more technical […] How to watch Meta Connect’s 2022 Keynote (hint: Facebook) by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch... →