Meta Platforms Inc. aka Meta was formerly known as Facebook and is an American technology conglomerate situated in Menlo Park, California. Meta now acts as a parent company to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other subsidiaries. Meta is seen as one of the American big five in tech, along with Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. The company changed its name to Meta because of the renewed focus on building a giant metaverse – a network of virtual worlds which will be inhabited by social avatars of real people – with the goal to tie the whole world together into one giant, social network. Meta’s services include Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. It has also acquired Oculus, Giphy, Mapillary, Kustomer and holds a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms. The new name came into effect on October 28, 2021. Mark Zuckerberg acts as the CEO for Meta, Sheryl Sandberg is the COO, Nick Clegg is president of Global Affairs, Mike Schroepfer is the chief technology officer, David Wehner is the Chief Financial Officer and Chris Cox is the Chief Product Officer. As of December 2020, Meta had almost 59,000 employees. The company’s board of directors include Peggy Alford from PayPal, Drew Houston from Dropbox, Nancy Killefer from McKinsey and Company, Tony Xu from DoorDash and Peter Thiel from Clarium Capital among others. More
Meta's global policy chief Joel Kaplan told Moneycontrol that application layer is the right place for India to make the investment since the scale of investment to build foundation models is quite significant.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told Moneycontrol at Davos 2026 that the social media giant is eager to bring its wearables to India, since the demand has been huge.
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A Meta engineer’s viral post criticised job applications as ineffective, revealing that hundreds of applications got him nowhere. He suggested focusing on networking and impactful work rather than blindly following traditional processes.
Meta’s ambitious AI push is facing internal friction as CEO Mark Zuckerberg and star recruit Alexandr Wang clash over strategy, leadership, and control. A new reporting structure reveals deeper questions about who will shape Meta’s AI future.
'We’re evolving our performance programme to simplify it and place greater emphasis on rewarding outstanding performance,' a Meta spokesperson said.
Meta is planning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from its Reality Labs division as the company shifts focus from the metaverse to artificial intelligence, according to reports. The layoffs are expected to impact teams working on virtual reality products.
'I would run home from school, drop my backpack, and open the reviews before starting my homework,' Ruchir Baronia said, adding that early understanding of scale stayed with him through college in Berkeley, and then joined Meta’s engineering ranks.
'Amazon's codebase is huge, which makes the first year challenging, but the learning curve is worth it. Microsoft feels different altogether,' Nandita Giri, 32, said.
Former Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun warns that Meta may lose more AI researchers because its 29-year-old AI chief lacks the experience to lead serious research teams.
Meta intends to continue operating and selling the Manus service while also integrating the technology into its products, it said in a statement.
FAAMNG companies reported an 18% YoY uptick in hiring in specialised roles in India, with another 3,000-5,000 active job openings.
Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy banning rival AI chatbots, citing concerns that the move may harm competition while favouring Meta’s own AI services.
From quiet blacklisting to legal gag orders, former insiders describe how exposing Big Tech’s harms often comes with lasting professional exile.
Meta’s AI chief Alexandr Wang is under growing pressure after recent AI setbacks. Here’s what’s happening inside the company and why its next model matters so much.
Aman Jain's appointment as Meta's India public policy head comes at a time when the government is formulating a slew of tech and AI related regulations.
Meta’s strategy shifted dramatically earlier this year after the company released Llama 4, an open-source model that disappointed Silicon Valley and Zuckerberg
Meta is preparing to take on Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its upcoming AI model codenamed Avocado. The launch timeline has reportedly shifted to early 2026, and the model may be closed-source. Here are the latest details.
Meta has pushed back the release of its next-generation mixed reality glasses, code-named Phoenix, to the first half of 2027, after initially planning to release it in 2026. The company has apparently made this decision to help them deliver a more polished experience.
In just the past week, Apple’s heads of artificial intelligence and interface design stepped down.
After years of pouring billions into virtual worlds that failed to take off, Meta is preparing to shrink its metaverse ambitions and redirect investment toward AI-powered devices and “personal superintelligence.”
Meta is in discussions to use the Google chips — known as tensor processing units, or TPUs — in data centers in 2027
The study, known internally as Project Mercury, began in late 2019 and was aimed at understanding how Facebook and Instagram affected users’ emotional wellbeing.
'A chill ran down my spine. It is Delhi after all. Anything can happen,' Arnav Gupta, an engineering manager with Meta in London recalled, describing how he frantically opened the app to check the chat for context.
People who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison, Meta's internal research had found