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  2. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12] [13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]

  3. Why Meta Platforms Stock Rallied on Wednesday Morning - AOL

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    Shares of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) popped on Wednesday, gaining as much as 3.1%. As of 11:34 a.m. ET, the stock was still up 2.4%. The catalyst that sent the social media and artificial ...

  4. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    In October 2021, owner Facebook, Inc. changed its company name to Meta Platforms, Inc., or simply "Meta", as it shifts its focus to building the "metaverse". This change does not affect the name of the Facebook social networking service itself, instead being similar to the creation of Alphabet as Google's parent company in 2015.

  5. List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly ...

  6. Facebook, Instagram and Meta social media products went down ...

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    Meta (then Facebook) acquired it in 2012 for $1 billion. Threads is the company's latest social media platform Meta's most recent product, Threads launched in 2023 and offers much of the same ...

  7. Facebook owner Meta Platforms seeks to stop privacy breach ...

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    Meta Platforms will ask a court in Norway on Tuesday to stop a fine the country's data regulator has imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching users' privacy, in a case that ...

  8. Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Federal Trade Commission v. Facebook, Inc.) is an ongoing antitrust court case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Facebook parent company Meta Platforms. The lawsuit alleges that Meta has accumulated monopoly power via anti-competitive mergers, with the suit centering on the acquisitions of ...

  9. Social media: What the platforms are for and how they work - AOL

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    The latest Twitter competitor, Threads, was launched by Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta. The platform looks a lot like Twitter, with a feed of largely text-based posts — in addition ...