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Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) is reportedly testing digital collectibles on Facebook with select creators across the United States. What Happened: According to a TechCrunch report on Thursday, Meta has started a slow rollout for a few NFT creators to post their digital...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly asked his employees to brace for one of the worst economic downturns in recent history. What Happened: Zuckerberg told his staff on Thursday that he was hoping to turn up the heat on them, Reuters ...

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) stock is slowly losing its appeal among institutional investors amid its recent fundamental setbacks. IP Capital Partners, one of Brazil's oldest independent investment managers liquidated its entire stake in Meta in early 2022, a monthly report from the...

The Moscow city court upheld a Russia-wide ban on Meta Platforms Inc’s (NASDAQ: META) Facebook and Instagram after it was found guilty of "extremist activity" in March, Russian News Agency TASS reported. What Happened: In order to exert greater control over information flows in the...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) is facing a lawsuit that says people’s medical data is being secretly shared with Facebook when patients access their healthcare providers’ web portals, reports Bloomberg.  According to the report, the Pixel tracking tool, which Facebook uses,...

Sheryl Sandberg resigned from Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) as COO last week after 14 years with the organization.  In an interview with Bloomberg, Sandberg called her time at Meta the "honor and privilege of a lifetime" but joked that it's also "not the most...

The inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series kicks off Thursday, June 9. The league, funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, is seeking to take on the PGA Tour with an alternative golf league. About LIV: The tournaments in the LIV series will be different than traditional PGA Tour...

Data scientist and Facebook, Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) whistleblower Frances Haugen has said that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to doubled down on the Metaverse after she raised concerns about the company's capacity to moderate content effectively showed "a dereliction of duty....

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that more than 46,000 people reported losing over $1 billion in payment scams involving cryptocurrencies since the start of 2021.  The top cryptocurrencies people said they used to pay scammers were Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) which accounted for...

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has brought in a user-friendly feature to its Messenger app for iOS and Android users. The social media giant's mobile Messenger app now has a dedicated "Calls" tab that will track each call a user makes or receives in the app in one place, the Verge...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) paid a public relations firm to monitor workers in a Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) group and on social media amid a unionization push in 2017-18, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing invoices and other documents. What Happened: The...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc’s (NASDAQ: FB) Class A common stock will start trading with a new ticker soon. What Happened: The Mark Zuckerberg-led company will debut its new ticker symbol, ”META," on June 9, 2022, when the market opens. META will replace the...

What’s it like being a world-class disc jockey? It’s definitely beyond what social media has made it out to be. It’s long nights, little pay, and a lot of work, particularly at the outset. In learning more about what it takes to become a world-class DJ, Benzinga chatted with the...

David Marcus, the former head of Meta Platforms Inc-owned (NASDAQ: FB) Facebook's crypto project Diem, has launched a Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) payments startup. What Happened: Marcus and a few ex-Meta crypto team members have started a new venture, according to a report from TechCrunch...

Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ: FB) Instagram is soon going to integrate NFTs (non-fungible tokens) from Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), Polygon (CRYPTO: MATIC), Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), and Flow.  According to the report, Meta is expected to make an official announcement on this as...