Meta has invested $900 million in India’s Cred, and hired its founder to oversee WhatsApp. The deal values Cred at $4.5 billion, and gives Meta a minority share in the company, though no access to customer information, the startup said in a Monday (June 22)...
Meta will soon roll out subscriptions for three of its apps and for creators, businesses and power users of its artificial intelligence (AI) offering. Subscription plans called Instagram Plus, WhatsApp Plus and Facebook Plus are rolling out globally, Meta Head of Product Naomi Gleit said in a Wednesday (May 27) post on...
The next time a customer wants a foundation shade, she might not open a search engine. She’ll ask an AI. Sephora launched an app inside ChatGPT. Fenty Beauty built an artificial intelligence adviser on WhatsApp. Ulta Beauty rolled out agentic commerce across Google’s AI surfaces....
Meta has launched new artificial intelligence-powered anti-scam tools for its platforms WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger. These tools are designed to help users of these platforms spot and avoid scammers, the company said in a Wednesday (March 11) press release. “Across our apps, our systems find...
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...
July 01, 2026
WhatsApp recently began offering usernames, designed to help people connect while keeping their phone numbers private. Now, the Meta-owned company said it will allow high-profile names to be claimed only by legitimate owners as it tries to prevent impersonation on the messaging platform, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (July 1). The username feature was introduced Monday […]
June 22, 2026
Meta has invested $900 million in India’s Cred, and hired its founder to oversee WhatsApp. The deal values Cred at $4.5 billion, and gives Meta a minority share in the...
May 27, 2026
Meta will soon roll out subscriptions for three of its apps and for creators, businesses and power users of its artificial intelligence (AI) offering. Subscription plans called Instagram Plus, WhatsApp...
March 11, 2026
Meta has launched new artificial intelligence-powered anti-scam tools for its platforms WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger. These tools are designed to help users of these platforms spot and avoid scammers, the...
