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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch.

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Facebook Launches Pilot of Novi Digital Wallet
Facebook Launches Pilot of Novi Digital Wallet
October 19, 2021  |  Mobile Wallets

Facebook is debuting its Novi digital wallet as part of a pilot program in Guatemala and the U.S., according to a Tuesday (Oct. 19) company...

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Tech Giants Moving to Vastly Expand and Monetize the Metaverse
Tech Giants Moving to Vastly Expand and Monetize the Metaverse
October 18, 2021  |  Technology

The metaverse — the game-like immersive digital experience enabled by virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) tech, and populated by millions of gamers, enthusiasts, many companies and all their respective creations — is going mainstream … or at least attempting to do...

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Facebook Seeks 10,000 Engineers in EU to Create New Digital World
Facebook Seeks 10,000 Engineers in EU to Create New Digital World
October 18, 2021  |  Facebook

Facebook is looking to hire 10,000 engineers over the next five years in the European Union to advance its creation of a metaverse, a new...

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Can AI Police Facebook? Maybe Not Just Yet, Report Says
Can AI Police Facebook? Maybe Not Just Yet, Report Says
October 17, 2021  |  Facebook

While Facebook has routinely maintained that its artificial intelligence (AI) can police problems like violent content and hate speech on its platform, a new report...

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Social Media Giants Jockey to Attract Brands, Influencers
Social Media Giants Jockey to Attract Brands, Influencers
October 12, 2021  |  Retail

With social commerce expected to top $36 billion this year and at least $45 billion next year, retailers are increasing their interest and investment in...

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Two Facebook Crypto Engineers Jump Ship For Andreessen Horowitz
Two Facebook Crypto Engineers Jump Ship For Andreessen Horowitz
October 12, 2021  |  Personnel

Two engineers working for the past two years to co-create Facebook’s Novi digital wallet — formerly called Calibra — left the company to work with...

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Facebook Outage Impact on Emerging Market SMBs Just Starting to be Known
Facebook Outage Impact on Emerging Market SMBs Just Starting to be Known
October 11, 2021  |  Social Commerce

Panic, agony, torture, stress – those are some of the words users around the world had to describe last week’s six-hour global outage, from 4...

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Australian Government Considers Holding Social Media Firms Responsible for User-Posted Content
Australian Government Considers Holding Social Media Firms Responsible for User-Posted Content
October 10, 2021  |  Regulation

Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter may be made more responsible for defamatory material published on their platforms if measures being considered by...

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After Whistleblower and Facebook Outage, Zuckerberg’s Fortune Drops $6B
After Whistleblower and Facebook Outage, Zuckerberg’s Fortune Drops $6B
October 04, 2021  |  Facebook

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw over $6 billion in losses to his personal wealth in several hours Monday (Oct. 4) when the popular social media...

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