New patents reveal Zuckerberg’s plans for the metaverse
Meta's metaverse patents show the business model: capture more personal data — including facial expressions — and serve better-targeted ads in 3D.
Meta's metaverse patents show the business model: capture more personal data — including facial expressions — and serve better-targeted ads in 3D.
The tech sell-off is splitting the sector into two camps: mature big-tech giants mostly worried about regulators, and high-growth newcomers getting repriced hard.
As GE and J&J split up, Jack Dorsey's Block, Meta, Alphabet, Tencent, and ByteDance are building the conglomerates of a new era.
Facebook is reportedly renaming the parent company. The strength of its name has become a liability — and it's the starting gun for Zuckerberg's metaverse bet.
This column was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on September 17th, 2021. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Human trafficking. Drug cartels. Teenage girls getting body image issues. Internal documents reveal how Facebook has been alerted to its problems – and ignored them. Now the company is facing another crisis of confidence. When Facebook – the world’s largest social network – began crisis management […]