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A display of EssilorLuxottica glasses. A next generation of Ray-Ban Meta glasses is planned for the 2025 holiday season. PHOTO: BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS

Meta in Talks to Buy Stake in Eyewear Giant EssilorLuxottica

The Facebook owner already has a partnership with the European company to make its Ray-Ban smart glasses

March 2020 photo of Barbara Furlow-Smiles in Los Angeles. (Robin L Marshall / Getty Images)

‘I blew it big time.’ Former Facebook DEI head gets 5 years in prison for stealing millions

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will ‘keep things lean,’ going big in AI with a lid on hiring

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said new hiring will remain “relatively minimal compared to what we would have done historically.”

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 08: Barbara Furlow-Smiles attends the 2020 Sisters' Awards at Skirball Cultural Center on March 08, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images)

Former Facebook employee pleads guilty to stealing $4 million

Sentencing for Barbara Furlow-Smiles is scheduled for March 19, 2024.

Mark Zuckerberg might have enjoyed a "Hot Zuck Summer," but an "Instagram Nightmare Fall" could now be in the making. Getty Images

Mark Zuckerberg can kiss 'Hot Zuck Summer' goodbye. Instagram is now in full crisis mode.

Instagram Reels is showing inappropriate images of children to some adults, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Meta’s share price has risen this year after several rounds of layoffs. PHOTO: JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES

Meta Sees Ad Business Rebound but Warns of Higher Spending in Metaverse

The Facebook parent has seen revenue surge after cost cutting and improved ad-targeting

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook parent Meta, has taken over more control over the company’s AI efforts. GEORGE FREY/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Mark Zuckerberg Was Early in AI. Now Meta Is Trying to Catch Up.

The company’s CEO has invested for more than a decade in academic discoveries about AI, even making them open for others to view and use. Now Meta is behind in making consumer products like ChatGPT.

The app from Meta is code-named Project 92. PHOTO: JEFF CHIU/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Meta Reveals Twitter Competitor It Plans to Launch as Stand-Alone App

Zuckerberg criticizes Apple’s Vision Pro headset, saying Meta has tried to make products affordable

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. PHOTO: YVES HERMAN/REUTERS

Meta Fined $1.3 Billion Over Data Transfers to U.S.

Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open

Jada Pinkett Smith's 'Red Table Talk' canceled as Meta shutters Facebook Watch originals

Adam Mosseri’s ambitions for London were crushed by Meta’s cost-cutting, according to two people with knowledge of the operation © FT montage/Bloomberg/Getty Images for WIRED

Instagram to move majority of staff from London to New York

Decision comes less than eight months after social media platform’s head Adam Mosseri relocated to UK

Mark Zuckerberg leaving a federal courthouse in San Jose in February 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs

The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources.

Facebook and Instagram are changing the way they verify users, as Twitter has already done, with a move to having them pay for the blue check. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

The blue check thumbs-up process is changing. Here's how social media users may be affected

Trading money for identity, fraud protection online makes for uneven playing field, says marketer

‘Meta Verified’ subscribers can get a blue check mark on Facebook or Instagram for a monthly fee if they provide government identification. PHOTO: DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG

Facebook, Instagram Users in U.S. Can Pay for a Verified Blue Check Mark

‘Meta Verified’ subscription service also offers direct access to customer support

GETTY IMAGES / Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the plans in a memo to staff

Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs.

Meta, Facebook's parent company, says it will restrict access to news on its platforms if online news legislation proposed by the government passes in its current form. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

Meta to block access to news on Facebook, Instagram if Online News Act adopted as-is

Google executives clashed with MPs over the digital policy bill this week

Meta confirms decentralized Twitter competitor in the works

Facebook’s parent company has gone back to the drawing board after its Metaverse failed to attract public interest

Meta’s headquarters in California. The new subscription service is aimed at increasing security across the company’s services. PHOTO: DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Facebook Parent Launching ‘Meta Verified’ Subscription Service

Meta Platforms plans to test program starting at $11.99 a month in Australia and New Zealand

File photo: President Donald Trump looks at his phone in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on June 18, 2020. © Alex Brandon, AP

Meta to allow Donald Trump back on Facebook, Instagram

Meta Platforms Inc META.O said on Wednesday it will restore former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021.

Meta settles Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $725m (£600m) to settle legal action over a data breach linked to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

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