The antitrust trial brought against Meta by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly focused on what the company’s platforms do and who they compete with. These determinations are important because the antitrust case depends on proving that Meta’s products have a monopoly in what...
The Federal Trade Commission began laying out its landmark antitrust case against Meta Platforms in federal district court in Washington Monday (April 14), with FTC attorney Daniel Matheson telling the judge Meta “decided that competition was too hard and it would be easier to buy...
WhatApp’s popularity in Europe has placed it under a new regulatory threshold in the region. The Meta-owned messaging service’s user level has reached a point that it is now considered a “very large online platform” (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), Reuters reported Wednesday...
This week in artificial intelligence models and tools, Microsoft announced that DeepSeek R1 is available on Azure AI Foundry, and Alibaba released a model that it said is better than DeepSeek. Meanwhile, Meta launched a memory feature, and Google announced new Gemini Live capabilities. Microsoft...
April 30, 2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday (April 30) that the social media giant will increase its spending for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers this year as it embeds the technology more deeply throughout its family of apps. “The major theme right now, of course, is how AI is transforming everything we do,” Zuckerberg said during […]
July 13, 2023
Is the social media landscape too crowded? The winners of today’s attention economy don’t seem to think so. That’s why Meta, the parent company of social behemoth Facebook, last week...
October 06, 2022
Apps dabbling in everything from retail to romance are charging for more features as way to generate new revenue streams from legions of “freemium” or unpaid users. While the freemium...
May 10, 2021
After nearly a full year of waiting, WhatsApp payments have been cleared by Brazil’s central bank to go live, enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) payments capabilities for its 120 million Brazilian users, 86...
April 29, 2025
The antitrust trial brought against Meta by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly focused on what the company’s platforms do and who they compete with. These determinations are important because the antitrust case depends on proving that Meta’s products have a monopoly in what the FTC calls “personal social networking services,” Bloomberg reported Tuesday […]
February 19, 2025
WhatApp’s popularity in Europe has placed it under a new regulatory threshold in the region. The Meta-owned messaging service’s user level has reached a point that it is now considered...
January 29, 2025
Gallabox raised $3.5 million in a seed round to strengthen the capabilities and expand the geographic footprint of its platform that enables small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use artificial...
December 10, 2024
Meta has launched a pre-holiday anti-scam awareness campaign to keep users safe. “Scammers are persistent and try to trick people in a variety of ways — malicious texts and emails,...
