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  2. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta, and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., 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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    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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Mark Zuckerberg - Wikipedia

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    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ( / ˈzʌkərbɜːrɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman. He co-founded the social media service Facebook, along with his Harvard roommates in 2004, and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder.

  6. Facebook owner Meta Platforms revealed as company ... - AOL

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    City and El Paso County offer Meta Platforms $110M in tax incentives to locate huge data center in Northeast El Paso

  7. 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 ...

  8. There's a good chance Meta has your contact info. Here's how ...

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    Facebook's parent company Meta actually has a "secret tool," first noticed by Business Insider, which lets you request the deletion of personal data, like your phone number There's a good chance ...

  9. 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 ...