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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. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [320] through privacy settings. [321] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.

  4. List of most-followed Facebook pages - Wikipedia

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    This article contains a list of the top 50 accounts with the largest number of followers on the social media platform Facebook. [1] [2] As of March 2024, the most-followed page is Facebook App's page with more than 189 million. The most-followed person is Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, with over 168 million followers as of March 2024.

  5. Meta more than doubles Q1 profit but revenue guidance pulls ...

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    April 24, 2024 at 3:25 PM. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said Wednesday its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6% increase on the ...

  6. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone aged 13 and older with a valid email address. [7] [8] Late in 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages, allowing companies to attract potential customers and tell about themselves.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Initial public offering of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg resisted buyout offers, suggesting the company was "definitely in no rush." For years, Facebook and Zuckerberg resisted both buyouts and taking the company public. The main reason that the company decided to go public is because it crossed the threshold of 500 shareholders, according to Reuters financial blogger ...

  9. Instagram - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Instagram [a] is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.