This week, Meta landed a major talent coup by hiring away Apple’s top UI design executive, Alan Dye, in a move that highlights the social…
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President Trump to host Apple CEO Tim Cook, other tech CEOs for first event in newly renovated Rose Garden
U.S. President Donald Trump will host a dinner to be attended by Apple CEO Tim Cook and over two dozen technology and business leaders…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Personal superintelligence is now in sight
In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the fabric of human existence, the pursuit of superintelligence — AI systems…
Apple loses top AI models exec to Meta’s multi-million-dollar hiring spree
Ruoming Pang, a distinguished engineer and head of Apple’s foundation AI models team, is departing the company to join Meta Platforms…
With CEOs including Apple’s Tim Cook contributing, President Trump raised record $239 million for second inaugural
CEOs of prominent companies including Apple’s Tim Cook, who personally gave President Trump $1 million towards his inaugural fund…
President Trump’s inaugural brings the world’s billionaire elites, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, en masse to DC
As Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. President with Apple CEO Tim Cook among those billionaires in attendance…
Meta is ending third-party ‘fact-checking’ on Facebook, Instagram in favor of Elon Musk’s X’s ‘community notes’ system
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company’s heavy-handed, biased moderation policies and practices Tuesday…
‘Everybody wants to be my friend,’ President Trump says of Apple’s Tim Cook, other top CEOs
President Trump said he’s being embraced by business executives who are flocking to Florida to meet with the president-elect…
Meta axes headset designed to rival Apple Vision Pro
Meta has ceased work on a headset designed to rival Apple Vision Pro because it reportedly wanted to keep the cost of the device below…
Mark Zuckerberg tries Apple Vision Pro, claims Meta Quest 3 is ‘the best product, period’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried the Apple Vision Pro spatial computer yet still claims that his company’s Quest 3 AR/VR headset…
Meta’s X wannabe Threads unravels
According to Similiarweb measurements, daily user numbers at X rival Threads, from Meta Platforms, has fallen by nearly 80 percent in just…
Meta’s X rival ‘Threads’ hemorrhages more than half of its users
Meta executives are focusing heavily on user retention for their new 𝕏 (née Twitter) rival, Threads, after the app lost more than half…
Meta’s Zuckerberg dismisses Apple Vision Pro; ‘not the one that I want’
In all-hands meeting and email to employees, Meta CEO says that the Apple Vision Pro is “not the one that I want,” and “there’s no kind of…
Zuckerberg panics, Osborne Effects Meta with rushed ‘Quest 3’ headset reveal
Four days before Apple is expected to enter, and likely redefine, the mixed-reality (XR) headset market, Meta pre-announced its Quest 3 …
How to apply for your share of Facebook’s $725 million privacy lawsuit settlement
Facebook users who maintained an account between May 2007 and Dec. 2022 can submit a claim for their share of a $725 million class…
U.S. House Judiciary subpoenas Apple CEO Tim Cook, other Big Tech CEOs over free speech
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Apple CEO Tim Cook and other tech CEOS over free-speech issues…
Facebook’s profits depended on trampling it users’ privacy. Apple put a stop to that. Now what?
For years, Facebook-parent Meta Platform’s profits depended on trampling it users’ privacy, but Apple put a stop to that with its…
Republican U.S. House likely to investigate Facebook, Google, Big Tech over censorship
Republicans are increasingly likely to secure a majority in the U.S. House of representatives, putting the GOP in control of House…
Facebook-parent Meta no longer in the top 20 most-valuable U.S. companies
A year ago, Facebook was among the five most valuable U.S. companies, with a market cap over $1 trillion. Now the company, renamed Meta…
Mark Zuckerberg takes thinly veiled shot at Apple; implies Apple’s AR/VR headset will be very expensive
Meta Platforms, née Facebook, recently announced the Meta Quest Pro, its $1,500 mixed reality headset, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently…
Beleaguered Facebook scrambles to escape stock’s death spiral as users flee, sales plummet
Beleaguered Facebook-parent Meta Platforms is trading at its lowest since early 2019, and the stock is one of the worst performers…
Facebook-parent Meta sued for bypassing Apple privacy rules to track users
Facebook-parent Meta Platform was sued on Wednesday for allegedly building a secret work-around to privacy safeguards that Apple launched…
Why Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg went on Rogan: his metaverse pitch is failing
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, now Meta Platforms Inc., appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast on August 25th, despite the mockery…
Privacy-focused Apple is killing Meta’s advertising revenue
Apple’s privacy-focused changes to its operating system – App Tracking Transparency – that wiped out an estimated $10 billion…
Apple calls out Facebook parent Meta for planning to take nearly 50% cut from metaverse sales
Apple is calling out the hypocrisy of Facebook parent Meta Platforms’s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within…
After criticizing Apple’s 15%-30% App Store cut, Meta plans to take 47.5% in metaverse fees
After criticizing the 15%-30% fee Apple charges for certain types of sales and subscriptions in the App Store, Meta Platforms will charge…
Apple’s privacy features will cost Facebook $12.8 billion this year
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency will cost Meta Platforms subsidiary Facebook $12.8 billion in 2022, research firm Lotame estimates…
Woz: Facebook is my least favorite ‘of all big tech’
Steve “Woz” Wozniak said that he and his wife both recently deactivated their Facebook accounts over data privacy concerns…
Facebook-parent Meta falls off the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies
Shares of Meta (FB), parent to societal cancer Facebook, slid past a major milestone on Thursday when the company unceremoniously fell off…
Meta shares plunge as Facebook owner misses on earnings, forecast
Facebook subsidiary owner Meta Platforms shares plunged more than 18% after the closing bell on Wednesday as the societal cancer missed…
Facebook/Meta voted the worst company of the year
Shockingly, Meta, née Facebook, has been voted the Worst Company of the Year, with Yahoo Finance polling their audience as to which…
Facebook rebrands itself ‘Meta’
Facebook has rebranded itself “Meta,” the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on its ambitions building the “metaverse”…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy push hurts Big Tech rivals’ ad businesses
The latest earnings reports from Facebook and Snapchat show that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework is having…
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, a source with direct knowledge…
Facebook advertisers impacted by Apple’s strong privacy policies
Those who value their privacy are impacting advertisers on Facebook, who are losing access to some of their most valuable targeting data and…
President Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet CEOs over being banned from their platforms
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced class action lawsuits against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and…
Facebook ends ban on posts claiming COVID-19 is man-made
Facebook, the ad-tracking behemoth has, with egg on its collective face, ended its ban on posts that say COVID-19 is potentially man-made …
Steve Jobs called Facebook ‘Fecebook’ in newly revealed email
Internal Apple emails show the company was battling with Facebook for at least a decade. In the emails, Jobs calls Facebook, “Fecebook.”
Facebook encourages iOS users to allow themselves to be tracked so app stays ‘free of charge’
Facebook has added a notice within its iOS app encouraging users to allow themselves to be tracked because the information it collects…
Apple film project ‘Emancipation’ starring Will Smith exits Georgia over election integrity law
Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua will no longer shoot the movie “Emancipation” in Georgia, citing the Election Integrity Act…
U.S. FTC calls Facebook an illegal ‘personal social networking’ monopoly
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday fired back at Facebook’s attempt to dismiss the regulator’s lawsuit seeking to break…
Personal data of over half a billion Facebook users leaked online
Mark Zuckerberg’s ill-conceived Facebook ad campaign against Apple for giving users tools to protect their privacy just took a big hit…
