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☆ How to keep betting on a Meta breakout with protection in case of a pullback
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Tony Zhang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The strategic focus Meta has placed on monetizing these AI tools across its platforms — including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — gives it a unique competitive advantage. This commitment to revenue generation from AI sets it apart from other firms still exploring AI potential without clear paths to monetization. If we review the chart for Meta, it has shown strong performance, recently breaking above a key resistance level at $545. Meanwhile, the company boasts robust growth projections with an expected future EPS growth of 22% (industry average of 16%) and a revenue growth rate of 15% (industry average of 11%). With these growth and profitability metrics, Meta appears undervalued, offering a compelling risk/reward profile for long-term investors looking to benefit from its AI-driven revenue potential.

Persons: WhatsApp, Meta Organizations: Facebook, Meta, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL

☆ I became a widow at 49 and found online dating soul-crushing. So I did something about it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Nicky Wake was widowed in April 2020 at the age of 49. The mom tried online dating after her husband's death but found the process soul-destroying. She founded a dating app for people who've lost partners to share and bond over their experience. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Around a year after my husband, Andy, 57, died after having a heart attack that led to catastrophic brain injuries, I dabbled in online dating.

Persons: Nicky Wake, who've, —, Andy, WhatsApp — Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Meta’s Ad-Free Subscription Violates Competition Law, E.U. Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Adam Satariano | More About Adam Satariano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Meta introduced a subscription option last year that would allow users in the European Union to pay for an advertising-free experience of Instagram and Facebook, it was meant to fix regulatory problems the company faced in the region. Meta introduced the subscription last year as a way to address regulatory and legal scrutiny of its advertising-based business model. Meta argued that by offering a subscription, users had a fair alternative. But regulators on Monday said the system was no choice at all, forcing users to pay for privacy. The authorities said Meta’s policy violated the Digital Markets Act, a new law aimed at reining in the power of the biggest tech companies.

Persons: Meta Organizations: Meta, European Union, Facebook, Digital Markets

☆ The investment case for Meta Platforms gets stronger — and our price target is changing, too
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"In fact, we now estimate that in 2024 Meta's ad business could outgrow Amazon's for the first time since 2015," the firm added. META 1Y mountain Shares of Meta Platforms over the past 12 months. Jefferies' bullish outlook goes straight to the heart of our investment case, which Jim Cramer reiterated last week during the March Monthly Meeting. All of this also jives with our view on Meta, as Jim laid out during the Monthly Meeting. Put it all together, and we're aligned with Jefferies on where Meta's stock can go from here.

Persons: Jefferies, outgrow Amazon's, Jim Cramer, that's, Jim, Meta, —, TikTok, Mark Zuckerberg, there's, Zuckerberg, Jim Cramer's, David Paul Morris Organizations: Google, Meta, Facebook, Jefferies, CNBC, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: U.S, Menlo Park , California

☆ Oracle buddies up with Microsoft. Plus our take on Salesforce and Meta news
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

A new partnership between Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) has the potential to benefit both Club holdings in the competitive cloud-computing landscape. Oracle, a database pioneer with more than 40 years of history operating in the market, had existing offerings geared toward Azure customers . Wall Street analysts were generally upbeat on the implications for Microsoft and Oracle, which joined the Club's portfolio a month ago. Analysts at Bernstein downplayed concerns that the deeper partnership with Microsoft will hurt Oracle's fast-growing cloud-computing service, known as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "This partnership also lowers the potential risk of Microsoft trying to target Oracle database customers to move off Oracle.

Persons: —, Satya Nadella, Larry Ellison, Bernstein, prem workloads, Ellison, Oracle's, Salesforce, Brian Millham, Marc Benioff, Will Cathcart, there's, Mark Zuckerberg, Jim Cramer, WhatsApp, Susan Li, Jim Cramer's, Jim, Justin Sullivan Organizations: Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle Autonomous Database, Wall Street, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Web Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Companies, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Meta Platforms, Meta, Facebook, CNBC Locations: Salesforce, San Francisco, Redwood Shores , California

☆ Meta's WhatsApp is chasing big businesses in effort to finally capitalize on app's popularity
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Newton-Rex joined WhatsApp four years ago, leaving her high-level position at London-based financial firm WorldRemit for the new gig. Newton-Rex said Zuckerberg has been "a big part of the team," adding that he regularly speaks with Will Cathcart, the current head of WhatsApp. What's up with WhatsApp's business? In June, Meta said the WhatsApp Business app had quadrupled in the past three years to 200 million monthly active users. The Pew Research Center has previously detailed that WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app used by Hispanic Americans.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, WhatsApp, it's, It's, sidelining WhatsApp, Rather, Zuckerberg, Jim Cramer, Alice Newton, Rex, Uber, Newton, WorldRemit, Will Cathcart, Nick Lane, Debra Aho Williamson, Williamson, Jan Koum, Brian Acton, Jan Koum David Ramos, Acton, Koum, Meta, Meta's, that's, Mobilesquared's Lane, Lane Organizations: Facebook, Meta, CNBC, Consumers, Netflix, Insider Intelligence, Getty, Reuters It's, Intelligence, Pew Research Center, Twitter, Cambridge, SMS Locations: WhatsApp, India, Brazil, London, Indonesia, Colombia, Singapore, Newton, U.S, Canada, Spain, Italy, Argentina, North

☆ Meta's Threads debut solved the chicken-or-egg problem plaguing new social startups
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Last week, Meta launched its latest social media venture, a Twitter alternative called Threads. For social media start-ups, attracting an audience is crucial to scaling a new product — but it can be near impossible to lure loyal users away from other platforms. New Threads accounts can easily migrate their information from Instagram, sharing their account data and username between the platforms. They have this pattern now of either launching or creating spin-off social media networks based on what's most popular at the time, then do it under their brand," Caraballo said. "It just is so dystopian to have one single person basically who oversees the entirety of all social media, at least in the Western world," Caraballo told Insider.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Alexis Ohanian, Ohanian, —, Instagram, Sarah Oh, we've, Adam Mosseri, Alex Heath, Elon, Alejandra Caraballo, Harvard Law School's, Caraballo, WhatsApp —, Elon Musk, Meta Organizations: Meta, CBS, Boston Herald, Twitter, Harvard Law, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission Locations: Instagram

☆ The Taliban Government Runs on WhatsApp. There’s Just One Problem.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Christina Goldbaum | Safiullah Padshah | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Late one night two months ago, a team of Taliban security officers assembled on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital to prepare for a raid on an Islamic State hide-out. He grabbed his colleagues’ phones and called their superiors, who insisted they had sent him the location pin of the target to his WhatsApp. There was just one problem: WhatsApp had blocked his account to comply with American sanctions. “The only way we communicate is WhatsApp — and I didn’t have access,” said Mr. Inqayad, 25, whom The New York Times has followed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021. Those interruptions also underscore the far-reaching consequences of international sanctions on a government that has become among the most isolated in the world.

Persons: Habib Rahman Inqayad, WhatsApp, —, ”, Inqayad Organizations: New York Times Locations: Afghanistan’s, State

☆ Meta asks office workers to return to in-person work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The internet giant — which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — has asked that employees currently assigned to an office return to in-person work three days a week starting September 5. Meta employees who are designated as remote workers will be allowed to keep their remote status. “We’re committed to distributed work, and we’re confident people can make a meaningful impact both from the office and at home. In the post, Zuckerberg shared that the company’s internal analysis showed that engineers who joined Meta in-person performed better on average than those who joined remotely. Meta joins a wave of large corporations that have asked workers to return to in-person work for at least a few days per week this year.

Persons: —, “ We’re, We’re, ”, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta Organizations: CNN, Meta, Disney

☆ Should you check emails on vacation or face a ‘tidal wave’ of messages later? These CEOs have some ideas
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Monica Pitrelli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Should you check email on vacation or face a tsunami of messages once you're back at the office? An 'email intervention'Robinson launched an "Email Intervention Campaign" earlier this month to deal with issues like "vacation email panic," he told CNBC Travel. "I encounter tons of people who are burned out from email," said work-life speaker and consultant Joe Robinson. Robinson advises companies to create defined email policies, ideally ones which give workers permission not to check email on vacation. Don't respond (if you don't have to) Emails proliferate like rabbits, said Joe Robinson.

☆ Meta just surged past Tesla in market value for the first time in 16 months
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta overtook Tesla in market value for the first time in 16 months on Thursday. Meta shares are up 77% this year, while Tesla slid Thursday on concerns about its profit margins. The social-media giant had a market capitalization of $547 billion at the closing bell, according to Yahoo Finance, which comfortably exceeded the automaker's $517 billion market cap. The last time Meta was worth more than Tesla was December 20, 2021. Meta and Tesla are now respectively the seventh- and eighth-largest companies in the world by market capitalization, per CompaniesMarketCap data.

You can hide online status on WhatsApp — known as Last Seen — in your Privacy settings. What is WhatsApp online status? Note: When you hide your own WhatsApp online status, you also can't view other people's statuses, though it's a more polite alternative to blocking someone outright. Here's the full guide on how to hide your online status on WhatsApp:How to hide WhatsApp online status1. On the Privacy page, tap Last Seen & Online to control whether other people can see your online status.

☆ Metaverse-obsessed Mark Zuckerberg refuses to cut costs. It's no wonder the stock tanked
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Club holding Meta Platforms (META) reported mixed third-quarter results and weak forward guidance after the closing bell Wednesday. While beating expectations, revenue for Q3 dropped 4% to $27.71 billion. As for profitability, Family of Apps operating income came in at $9.34 billion, short versus expectations of $9.65 billion. Facebook Global Average Revenue per User (ARPU): $9.41 versus expectations of $9.83. Capital expenditures (capex) guidance was tightened to a range of $32 billion to $33 billion versus $30 billion to $34 billion previously forecast and above the $30.41 billion consensus.

☆ Meta's limits on employee abortion conversations could easily backfire. Here's what leaders should do instead.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-06 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Meta is limiting employee conversations about abortion on its internal platforms. The policy at Meta removes public employee posts on the company's internal platform with keywords like "abortion" and "Roe v Wade." Meta allows employees to talk about the topic only in private forums with up to 20 people, the Times said. The tech behemoth isn't the first company to monitor and control employee conversation around political issues and face pushback for it. Hasnas said that a company shouldn't single out one issue as being off limits, and that all political issues require consistency.

☆ Как жители Молдовы узнают политические новости? Результаты опроса IRI
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-22 | by ( ) newsmaker.md time to read: +1 min

Больше половины граждан Молдовы привыкли узнавать политические новости по телевизору. Еще для 24% жителей Молдовы основным источником информации и политических новостей является интернет, а еще для 12% — социальные сети. Среди соцсетей в стране популярнее всего Facebook — им пользуется 61% граждан Молдовы и 73% жителей столицы. Видео на платформе YouTube смотрят 49% жителей страны и 59% жителей столицы, а на пятом месте по популярности мессенджер WhatsApp — 36% жителей страны и 46% в Кишмневе. Наименее популярны в Молдове Linkedin — им пользуются 3% жителей Молдовы и 7% жителей столицы и LiveJournal — 3% жителей страны и 5% жителей столицы.

Organizations: Facebook, YouTube, IRI, Magenta Consulting, Международный республиканский институт (), Международный республиканский институт Locations: Молдова, Кишинев, Кишмнев

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