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Threads versus Twitter

Why Meta’s app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet after gaining 30 million users in less than 24 hours of launch COMMENT | LISA M. GIVEN | The launch of social media app Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, launched …

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Meta launches social networking app Threads

San Francisco, US | Xinhua |   Meta’s Instagram announced on Wednesday the launch of its new social networking app Threads. As the company’s Twitter competitor, Threads allows Instagram users to authenticate with their existing credentials to post short updates, including photos, links, texts up to 500 characters and videos up …

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Meta to restore Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts

San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Meta announced on Wednesday that the company would restore former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, ending a two-year suspension. “In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will …

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Disrupting the disruptors

Why Crypto, Twitter, and Meta’s best days appear to be behind them as Amazon, Apple limp along COMMENT | Roger McNamee | After a decade of unconstrained growth – when it seemed that a new billionaire was minted every day – the tech industry has finally hit a rough patch. Elon Musk’s …

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Facebook’s parent company Meta cuts 11,000 jobs

San Fransisico, U.S. | Xinhua | Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, said on Wednesday that it would lay off 13 percent of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees. The mass layoffs result from a sharp reduction of the company’s value amid a crumbling advertising market and decades-high …

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Meta’s machine breaks language barriers

Artificial Intelligence helps translate over 200 African languages | THE INDEPENDENT | Meta (www.Facebook.com) announced on July 06 that it has built and open sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200, a single AI model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages with state-of-the-art …

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Facebook rebrands as Meta

  Washington, USA |  THE INDEPENDENT | Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has today announced the parent company’s name is being changed to “Meta” to represent a new  future outside today’s  troubled social network. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Share on: WhatsApp

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