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- Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the new name as he unveiled plans to build a "metaverse" - an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets. He said the existing brand could not "possibly represent everything that we're doing today, let alone in the future", and needed to change.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59083601Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand - BBC News
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Oct 28, 2021 · For the first time in 17 years, Mark Zuckerberg has a new job title. On Thursday, he officially became the CEO and chairman of Meta, the new parent company name for Facebook. The rebrand is...
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The Facebook company has changed its name to Meta, but the social networking app Facebook will keep its name. It has also adopted a new logo (is it just us or does that look familiar…). The name change is to bring the company's "apps and technologies under one new company brand", it said in a statement. Since Facebook launched in 2004, the company ...
The metaverse is a virtual world you can plug yourself into and do — in theory — almost anything. Movies like The Matrix, Ready Player One and Tron explore the concept, and it is often depicted as a corrupt system to which people living in a dystopian society escape to (sounds like fun right?). Mr Zuckerberg said the metaverse would be a place wher...
Meta is a prefix — a word put before another — that means after or or beyond, to operate at a higher level, or change. For example, metacarpus (the finger bones after the wrist), metalanguage (language used to describe another language) and metamorphosis (a change of form). But it has another meaning in pop culture: to describe when something is be...
Oct 28, 2021 · Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand. The company said it would better "encompass" what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas like...
Oct 29, 2021 · Instead, it wants you to refer to it as Meta. The change was announced by Mark Zuckerberg during a keynote presentation in which he claimed that the metaverse was the future of the company he...
Oct 28, 2021 · Founder Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that Facebook will change its corporate name to Meta, effectively demoting Facebook’s namesake service to being just one of the company’s subsidiaries ...
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Oct 29, 2021 · After plenty of speculation, Facebook, the company that owns platforms including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, rebranded as Meta on 28 October.
Oct 29, 2021 · FACEBOOK ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY that it has changed its parent company name to Meta. The change comes amid a string of controversies that have followed the company’s various ventures, particularly...
