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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Microsoft cancels in-person plans for CES, joining Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, amid ongoing concerns over COVID-19 — Microsoft joins Intel, GM, Amazon, and Google in canceling — Microsoft is the latest company to drop a physical presence at CES...

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: At least 14 senior Meta executives, including from its Workplace and Novi divisions, left in 2021 or announced plans to depart in the coming months — - Numerous Facebook executives left the company in 2021 or announced plans to depart in the coming months.

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Amid COVID-19 concerns, Google, GM, and Waymo cancel in-person plans for CES, following Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, while Intel scales back its presence — The world's biggest technology show may not be — CES, the world's largest technology show, appears to...

Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: Meta brings back Kevin Martin, a Republican, as its head of US public policy, after failing to find a Democrat to lead its lobbying team — Meta Platforms is throwing in the towel on a plan to hire a top Democrat to lead its lobbying team after...

Ryan Mac / New York Times: In a note to employees, Bosworth envisions Meta's deep compatibility with blockchain, says it could have “profound impacts on our industry over the next decade” — Meta, Facebook's parent company, is aiming for “deep compatibility” with blockchain technology...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Amid COVID-19 concerns, Meta, Pinterest, and Twitter cancel in-person CES plans, while T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence, as others monitor conditions — - Google, HTC, Samsung and Sony still currently plan to go — Host of CES conference remains steadfast in...

Mathew Olson / The Information: Meta says it acquired ImagineOptix, a North Carolina-based startup specializing in liquid crystal lenses, which could help reduce the size of VR headsets — It's time to add another company to the list of Meta's acquisitions in the AR/VR industry. Meta has...

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Meta says over half of its Bulletin newsletter platform's 115 creators have over 1,000 free subscribers, “with many having more than 5,000 or 10,000” — Six months in and there are 115 publications writing on it — A new blog post from Meta marks the six-month...

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced today that it has filed a federal lawsuit in California court to take action to uncover individuals running a phishing scam. The company says the legal action aims to disrupt phishing attacks that are designed to trick people into sharing their login...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Spotify, Meta, and Netflix find Gen Z elusive in a way TikTok never has; Spotify says its Blend playlist feature is mostly used by Gen Z — Good afternoon from Puerto Rico. Hope you all are staying safe out there. Hollywood is celebrating the good news of a...

Meta (formerly Facebook) said this month that it already uses AWS to complement its existing on-premises infrastructure but will expand its ... | Read the rest of https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1863415&goto=newpost

Josh Sisco / The Information: Sources say the FTC has opened an in-depth probe into Meta's acquisition of Within, the company behind VR fitness game Supernatural — Meta Platforms' Oculus virtual reality headsets are a vital step toward creating what its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, calls the...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Meta bans seven surveillance-for-hire outfits, removing over 1,500 Facebook and Instagram accounts and alerting 50K users targeted by the groups — Cytrox is one of seven surveillance companies now banned from Meta's platforms — While NSO Group was taking flak for...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: the EU is set to approve Meta's acquisition of Kustomer after assurances rivals will still be able to work with Kustomer — Facebook is set to gain EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Kustomer after offering remedies that allow rival products to function …

Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: Meta says a woman was groped on its Horizon Worlds platform on November 26; an internal review says she should have used its “Safe Zone” tool — Last week, Meta (the umbrella company formerly known as Facebook) opened up access to its virtual-reality social...

Henry Mance / Financial Times: Interview with Nick Clegg, Meta's VP of global affairs, on moving from politics to Meta, the impact of Haugen's leaks, and the decision to ban Trump — Nick Clegg may be available in Berlin. He has a slot in Paris. He'll make time for lunch in Brussels.

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Meta adds Messenger support to Ray-Ban Stories via a software update, letting users send and receive messages, make calls, and have messages read aloud — Letting you send and hear messages makes them significantly more useful — The Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses...

Karissa Bell Contributor Karissa Bell is a Senior Editor at Engadget More posts by this contributorThe Oversight Board wants Facebook to explain its controversial rules for VIPsMeta is expanding its bug bounty program to reward researchers who report data scraping. The change will allow...

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Meta updates its bug bounty program to pay researchers who find anti-scraping loopholes, reward those who find scraped Facebook data with donations to charity — The Meta (formerly Facebook) security team has added scraping attacks to the list of incidents covered...

Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: Zoom joins the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to combat terrorist and extremist content — Video-conferencing platform Zoom has joined a counterterrorism organization formed by major U.S. tech companies...