MARK ZUCKERBERG

The Dow rallied 800 points on Friday to cap a big rebound week for the markets.

Three senators criticized Facebook’s 10-strike rule for violators of its gun sales ban.

Stock futures rose on Thursday as Wall Street looked to add to its gains this week.

After my interview with the Meta founder and CEO, I remain committed to believing that the metaverse is a trillion-dollar opportunity.

Zuckerberg is happy with the progress of Meta Platforms' Quest 2 headset. Now he has a big goal for 2030 that involves a user base spending meaningfully.

Ahead of his "Mad Money" interview with Mark Zuckerberg, CNBC's Jim Cramer discussed his time in the metaverse and why he believes in Meta's stock.

We think Club members should look at the metaverse as a longer-term opportunity, not something that's going to move the needle today.

Meta (formerly Facebook) is going to spend $10 billion this year on research and development on virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.

The DOJ claimed that Meta targeted users with housing ads based on algorithms that relied partly on characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act.

Meta showcased some prototype headsets that aim to address limitations with current ones but they prove a picture-perfect metaverse is ages away.

Inside the billionaire investor’s journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right

As Facebook looks to copy more features from TikTok, the popular short video service says it's not a social network

Social media has become too important to entrust to anyone. Are there ways to entrust it to everyone?

Javier Olivan, Meta's next chief operating officer, might not be a household name, but inside the company he's known for taking Facebook global.

The social media giant’s scaler-in-chief is departing just as the company confronts some of its biggest challenges.

Now that Sheryl Sandberg is gone from Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is the only top executive remaining from the company's IPO a decade ago.

Meta-Sandberg-Resignation FILE- In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. 2 exec at Facebook owner Meta, is stepping down, according to a post Wednesday, June 1, 2022 on her Facebook page. Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life," Sandberg wrote on her Facebook page Wednesday. “Sheryl Sandberg had an enormous impact on Facebook, Meta, and the broader business world. She helped Facebook build a world-class ad-buying platform and develop groundbreaking ad formats," said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at Insider Intelligence.

While we will miss the leadership of Sandberg — the company's COO and No. 2 to CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — it doesn't change our investment thesis.

Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, who helped turn its business from startup to digital advertising empire while also taking blame for some of its biggest missteps along the way, is stepping down.

Sandberg joined Facebook in early 2008 as the No. 2 to Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Florida authorities released a video on Saturday showing a 10-year-old 5th grader after he was arrested over an alleged written threat to commit a mass shooting. “My team didn’t hesitate one second to investigate this threat,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. “This child made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

Meta originally planned to change the ticker to 'MVRS,' but it will change to 'META' on June 9.

Social media has had a rough 2022 with lingering questions about advertising spending and a $44 billion takeover of Twitter that may or may not be happening, depending on which Elon Musk tweet you read.

It has the design chops, the chips and the know-how to ship high-end headsets at scale.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The District of Columbia on Monday sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed the civil lawsuit against Zuckerberg in D.C. Superior Court. The lawsuit maintains that Zuckerberg directly participated in important company decisions and was aware of the potential dangers of sharing users’ data, such as occurred in the case involving data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica gathered details on as many as 87 million Facebook users without their permission. Racine is seeking damages and penalties from Zuckerberg as may be determined in a trial.

The District of Columbia has sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg.

A major New York pension fund that has invested in both Facebook’s corporate parent and Twitter believes it’s time to shake up the companies’ boards of directors because of their inability to keep violent content off their influential social media services.

The lawsuit comes after a judge rejected Racine's attempt to add Zuckerberg as a defendant on his original consumer protection complaint against Facebook.

The suit filed Monday morning accuses the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta of being directly involved in decision making that led to the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.

WhatsApp parent Meta is moving forward with its push to attract businesses to its popular chat app, part its effort to find new ways to make money beyond targeted advertisements on its other platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday unveiled a developer tool, WhatsApp Cloud API, which will enable businesses to message and chat with their customers more easily. Zuckerberg called it “an important step to help more businesses connect with people and help more people message the businesses that they want to support — big and small.”The company, which at the time was called Facebook, bought WhatsApp in 2014. Zuckerberg agreed at the time that putting ads on WhatsApp would not be the right way to make money from it. But the metaverse is in its infancy, its future uncertain, and the company still needs to make money in the meantime.

WhatsApp parent Meta is moving forward with its push to attract businesses to its popular chat app.

Meta began chartering a new jet in March, about a month after Jack Sweeney started tracking Mark Zuckerberg's travel.

Since Facebook's debut 10 years ago, revenue has expanded by 26-fold, but the company's business is once again reliant on a risky bet on the future of tech.

Two years after the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a similar measure, the state's Republican-led lawmakers passed a bill that would require residents to have photo identification to cast a ballot.

The six-bedroom house was constantly filled with Facebook employees, said Zuckerberg's landlord at the time.

The store is designed to expose consumers to Meta's products, which you really have to experience to understand, explains Martin Gilliard, Head of Meta Store.

Facebook's parent company is pulling back on hiring midlevel or senior-level workers as advertisers reduce spending.

A British parliamentary committee scrutinizing draft online safety legislation has invited Elon Musk to discuss his plans to buy Twitter and the changes he’s proposing for the social media platform.

A Senate hearing on Wednesday is likely to produce fireworks as Republicans and Democrats square off over the role that foundations and nonprofits are playing in elections.

What elections look like downstream of the effort to rationalize Trump's false claims.

The information that courses through both legacy publications and social media networks is increasingly shaped by billionaires and other wealthy dynasties.

"I was talking about Zuckerberg but ok," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replied to Elon Musk in a now-deleted tweet.

Investors are lapping up Meta’s move to pare back virtual reality spending as Facebook sees a slight rebound in user growth. Don’t bet it will last, though.

The Tesla founder will join Zuckerberg, Brin and Page in exercising unparalleled sway over the world’s biggest communications platforms. That is a troubling prospect.

More people used Facebook in the first quarter than analysts expected, easing concerns about competition from TikTok.

While quarterly revenue at Facebook parent Meta Platforms missed, key engagement metrics came in better than expected and so did earnings.

Facebook reported first-quarter earnings that pleased investors despite slowing revenue growth.

Facebook beat profit expectations and grew its user base, reversing a disappointing quarter last year.

If Facebook's revenue in Q2 comes in at the lower end of its forecast, it would be the company's first revenue drop.

Facebook reported its first decline in daily active users last quarter, leading to a plunge in the stock price.

Washington’s hands are largely tied as the world’s richest person acquires an influential social network, an impact of the regulatory void around social media companies.

Facebook is planning retail outlets to help get more people wowed by the Oculus headset.

Billionaires Buffett and Zuckerberg are just a few of the successful business leaders who have gleaned important lessons and career advice from books they've read throughout the years. Here are a few examples of the books on business that have influenced some of the business world's biggest success stories.

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The travel ban includes US Vice President Kamala Harris, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky, and ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos.

"Among Us" is coming to VR.

When asked whether his role as richest man on Earth could pose a conflict of interest to his Twitter buy, Musk said he wouldn't be like Zuckerberg.

The nonprofit that distributed most of the $350 million in donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to election offices in 2020 says it won’t disburse similar donations this year.

Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations.

Georgia senators are scrapping further big changes in state election law.

A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority in advertisements submitted to run on its platform.

Lawmakers have made good on their threat to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Amazon and its senior executives obstructed Congress or violated other laws in testimony on its competition practices.

A handful of Americans donated at least $1 billion to charity last year, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual ranking of the 50 Americans who gave the most to charity in 2021.

The clear skies greeting Olympic athletes in Beijing this month is a stark change from just a decade ago when the city’s notorious air pollution often made it difficult to make out nearby buildings.

A Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta.

Meta is putting a lot of virtual eggs — and billions of dollars — into the metaverse basket, and Wall Street is spooked.

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its stock plunge in after-hours trading after reporting a rare decline in its fourth quarter profit due to a sharp increase in expenses.

With Valentine’s Day approaching, are you planning a date at home with your loved one? Perhaps a movie night is in order.

Dakota and Navajo actor Dallas Goldtooth joins other influencers — people who have earned the community’s trust — in a two-phase public outreach effort by nonprofit organizations IllumiNative, the Urban Indian Health Institute, and 13 Native groups in states including Alaska, Minnesota, and California.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

Wall Street delivered another strong year in 2021, as a spike in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy pumped up corporate profits.

The former Facebook manager who startled the world this fall by leaking tens of thousands of internal documents and accusing her former employer of caring more about money than about public safety has a book deal.

The head of Instagram, appearing before a Senate panel, met with deep skepticism over new measures the platform is adopting to protect young users nd the company’s commitment to transparency.

A spokesperson for the company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said the company is investing up to $3.4 billion to advance human health over 10 to 15 years.

A group supporting former President Donald Trump's agenda is working to bypass Wisconsin's Democratic governor to change the swing state's election laws.

Ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen implored lawmakers to avoid falling into the usual congressional stalemate as they weigh proposals to curb abuses in social media platforms by limiting the companies’ free-speech protections against legal liability.

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (PUH-rag AH-gur-wahl) has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.

Ohio's largest public employee pension fund has sued Facebook, alleging that it broke federal securities law by purposely misleading the public about its product's negative effect on children.

Twenty years ago, when Kyrsten Sinema was a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council, she likened the practice of raising campaign cash to “bribery.”.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is warning that the virtual reality world at the heart of the social media giant’s growth strategy will be addictive and rob people of personal information while giving the company another monopoly online.

Mark Zuckerberg promises that the virtual-reality “metaverse” he’s planning to build will “let you do almost anything.”.

Break up Big Tech.

The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination _ so much so that one of the best-known internet platforms is rebranding to embrace the futuristic idea.

Facebook Inc. says it is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., joining a long list of companies that have tried to rebrand themselves over the years.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future.

Philanthropy, Lucy Bernholz says, is like Chex Mix.

The senator leading a probe of Facebook’s Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the Senate.

Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is gearing up to invest $3.5 billion into climate initiatives through her foundation in the next 10 years.

U.S. House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, saying the tech giant has one “final chance” to correct previous testimony by executives on its competition practices.

Facebook says it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform.

Facebook has recently taken a harsher tone toward whistleblower Frances Haugen, suggesting that the social network could be considering legal retaliation after Haugen went public with internal research that she copied before leaving her job earlier this year.

When whistleblower Frances Haugen this week revealed internal Facebook studies of the harms its Instagram service can cause, particularly for teenagers, she reinforced concerns about the popular photo-sharing app.

A former Facebook data scientist testified before Congress that the social network’s products harm children and fuel polarization in the U.S. while executives reject changes that could hurt company profits.

While accusing the giant social network of pursuing profits over safety, a former Facebook data scientist told Congress she believes stricter government oversight could alleviate the dangers the company poses, from harming children to inciting political violence to fueling misinformation.

Instagram is putting a hold on the development of Instagram kids, geared towards children under 13, so it can address concerns about the vulnerability of younger users.

Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is stepping down from the social media company, taking on a part time role while longtime executive Andrew Bosworth will replace him next year.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic last year.

A senior Federal Trade Commission official is criticizing Facebook’s move to shut down the personal accounts of two academic researchers and terminate their probe into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

In a story published August 4, 2021, about a Colorado judge's decision to levy penalties against lawyers in a 2020 election lawsuit, The Associated Press misspelled the judge's name.

Concerns about a revenue growth slowdown pushed Facebook’s shares lower in after-hours trading Wednesday, not long after the company reported that its second-quarter profits doubled thanks to a massive increase in advertising revenue.