Meta boosts parental controls for Instagram and the metaverse for Brits June 14, 2022 Facebook parent company Meta has boosted its parental controls, bringing greater safety to its virtual reality offerings as well as social media.
UK regulator on course to block Meta’s Giphy deal November 29, 2021 The UK's competition regulator is reportedly planning to block Meta's Giphy deal as it amps up pressure on Big Tech.
Brits switch to social media for music as concerts go meta, says Brit Awards sponsor Mastercard January 16, 2023 Younger Brits are more likely to get their music recommendations from social media with TikTok and Instagram the most popular platforms. According to a new report by Mastercard 56 per cent of those aged 16-24 found their favourite music online. The report by the Brits Awards sponsor claims social media is overtaking physical concerts and [...]
Unfriended: Facebook owner Meta to cut 10,000 job and close of 5,000 vacancies as tech crunch continues March 14, 2023 Facebook owner Meta will sack 10,000 of its staff and close 5,000 vacancies as the tech sector continues to slim down in a bid to cut losses. In a post on facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement, saying it was being done with a view to both helping it “improve our financial performance” and [...]
Meta accused of breaching workers rights over union rep cleaner’s dismissal September 1, 2022 Meta has been accused by Amnesty International of breaching workers’ rights over claims a Bolivian cleaner working at its London offices was fired for being a union rep. The Facebook owner is set to face a protest outside its Brock Street offices on Friday ahead of the start of an unfair dismissal tribunal on Wednesday [...]
Letters: How meta is the metaverse January 25, 2022 [Re: When tech giant becomes gaming giant: Microsoft buys Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for a record £51bn, Jan 19] We have seen growth of over 300 per cent in PCT Patent filings for AR/VR technology over five years. This is all the more relevant with news of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which [...]
Let’s be honest, the competition watchdog shouldn’t care about Meta buying Giphy October 20, 2022 On Tuesday, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked Meta’s acquisition of Giphy, a gif search engine. This ruling risks undermining London’s status as the digital capital of Europe — threatening innovation, job creation and economic growth. And yet, they did it anyway. The CMA had two justifications for blocking the acquisition. The first was [...]
Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers is a meta barrel of laughs May 24, 2022 Nearly a year on from the disastrous Space Jam: A New Legacy, it’s Disney’s turn to mash a load of intellectual properties together in hopes of making a movie. This new spin on 80s cartoon Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers is avoiding cinemas, but might be one of the smarter straight-to-streaming options out there. The plot [...]
Meta and BlackRock dive deeper into crypto as Voyager receives approval to return cash August 8, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin started last week around the $23,000 mark and moved sideways throughout most of it.
It’s all oh so very Meta February 16, 2022 Dr Jane Thomason embarks on a mission to make sense of the mysterious world of the metaverse.