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Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others want to solve the IT security problem primarily with money. 30 million US dollars are already available. With the collaboration project of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), big names in the IT industry want to standardize their security practices and thus better secure the open-source world. A ten-point plan presented by the OpenSSF for this purpose is to include funding of around 150 million US dollars over the next two years, as the organization announced.

Meta Platforms (FB), the parent of Facebook, is a bargain now. Its latest earnings show that daily average users (DAUs) are up, not down, like last quarter. Its FCF margins rose as well. As a result, this makes FB stock look deeply undervalued.

“A group of non-fungible token (or NFT) makers and collectors will soon be able to display their tokens on Instagram,” says Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. NFTs are being tested on the platform, with “similar capabilities” coming to Facebook soon.

The Ethereum, Polygon and Solana blockchains are the leaders in NFT trading volume. The leading network in NFT is Ethereum, with projects such as Cyberpunks and Yuga Labs' Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC).

This week marks the one-year anniversary of a 46-year-old Pinellas county cultural institution running into the buzz-saw of a social media giant’s algorithm-driven artificial intelligence assassin.

My name on Social Media is “No One”. Thats right, first name – no last name – one. That way every time I “like” someone’s mind numbing post it now says “No one likes this”

The Meta Group is investing more and more every year to ensure Mark Zuckerberg's safety. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spent nearly $27 million on his private jet security and travel. And that's in 2021 alone, according to the company's most recent SEC filing. This is a kind of annual statement for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

According to the Roxbury County Police Department, there has been a recent increase in Facebook Marketplace thefts in Morris County, victimizing sellers on the social media site.

Facebook’s parent company Meta enlisted the help of a top Republican consulting firm to orchestrate an anti-TikTok campaign. According to The Washington Post, the company has been using an aggressive strategy to take down its biggest competitor by promoting posts that are questionable or fake. This includes placing op-eds and letters in major regional news outlets, pushing narratives about supposed TikTok trends on social media sites like Twitter where companies vie for cultural relevance.

Meta Platforms (FB) is off 32% year-to-date, although this is better than its decline of over 40.1% from its recent peak. However, FB stock is up 22.6% from its recent lows. There is no question that TikTok, owned by Bytedance, is taking away market share from Facebook, but FB stock largely reflects this drop.

**This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events that I have experienced firsthand; used with permission. The toe-tingling, euphoric experience of falling in love with someone for the very first time — and then — the absolutely soul-crushing experience of having your heart sharply broken for the very first time.

An unauthorized 2017 proof of concept was recently unearthed for a proposed virtual Walmart experience, although the chain has since officially announced its related intentions.

Will the financial positions of these globally dominant social media companies flip in the next decade? Financial experts examine possibilities. Facebook, Meta and Twitter logosMeta Platforms, and Twitter, Inc.

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, announced Monday that Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik had been prohibited across the European Union. According to Meta spokesperson Andy Stone, the change means that the RT and Sputnik profiles on Facebook and Instagram aren’t visible in the EU.

According to the EU Commissioner, The technology giants, Meta and Google could have cooperated too closely in the field of online advertising. This could violate competition law. The EU Commission is investigating Meta and Google because of possible distortion of competition in online advertising. An agreement between the two companies could aim to exclude competition, said EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, responsible for the competition, on Friday. Google rejected the suspicion.

When social media exploded into the mainstream in 2006, it was heralded as a new era of social connection. More than just a way to keep up with friends and family, social media promised to connect people across race, gender, class, and borders.