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Meta veteran Javier Olivan is taking over as the company's chief operating officer after playing a crucial but largely behind-the-scenes role stoking the social media company's explosive growth for 15 years.The Spaniard will replace Sheryl Sandberg, who announced on Wednesday she was stepping down from Meta.The move comes as Meta struggles with slowing growth and rising costs. It is transforming from a social media company to one focused on building the metaverse, a collection of virtual worlds that could be a decade…

Meta Platforms veteran Javier Olivan is taking over as the company's chief operating officer after playing a crucial but largely behind-the-scenes role stoking the social media company's explosive growth for 15 years. The Spaniard will replace Sheryl Sandberg, who announced on Wednesday she was stepping down from Meta. The move comes as Meta struggles with slowing growth and rising costs. It is transforming from a social media company to one focused on building the metaverse, a collection of virtual worlds that could be a…

Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, whose close partnership with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg powered the growth of the world's biggest social network, is leaving the company after 14 years, she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.The announcement initially sent the social media firm's shares down 4 percent, but the stock was nearly flat in after hours trade."When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years. Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter…

In Meta’s Horizon Worlds, a player’s avatar is force-fed a bottle of “vodka.” Report writers noted that it taking place virtually did not make it feel any less invasive.Screenshot: SumOfUs VideoIt took less than an hour for one researcher studying Meta’s titular metaverse to be “virtually raped” after putting on the VR headset for the first time. After days of witnessing and experiencing rampant conspiracy theories, sexual harassment, racism, and homophobia, writers of a recent report said the tech giant is entirely…

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Sept. 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Meta’s longtime business chief, Sheryl Sandberg, is leaving the company.“It is time for me to write the next chapter of my life. I am not entirely sure what the future will bring – I have learned no one ever is. But I know it will include focusing more on my foundation and philanthropic work,” she said. Sandberg, whose foundation is geared toward…

Five years. That’s how long Sheryl Sandberg figured she’d be spending at Facebook, now called Meta, when she took the job as chief operating officer and Mark Zuckerberg’s much-ballyhooed partner in 2008. Enough time to modulate the company’s swaggering culture into something sustainable, build a wildly successful ad business, and set up a policy operation in DC. And to establish herself as an international standard setter for female executives. Then she’d be off—maybe to run for office or to head a giant company like…

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta has announced that its Class A common stock will begin trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol 'META' prior to market open on June 9, 2022.The company said this is will replace the company's current ticker symbol 'FB', which has been used since its initial public offering in 2012. "The new ticker symbol aligns with the company's rebranding from Facebook to Meta, announced on October 28, 2021," the company said in a blogpost."No action by the company's shareholders is required with respect to the…

The Meta Platforms Inc. pavilion on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday, May 23, 2022.Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta is about to shed the last of its old corporate name.The Facebook-parent company announced Tuesday that it will change its stock ticker symbol to "META" prior to the market open on June 9.Meta rebranded from Facebook in October, saying it was part of its ambitions beyond social media. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has specifically been interested in building…

You will be blown away by the fact that 90% of the start-ups fail within the first 5 years of their inception... By Piyush Rajesh GuptaYou will be blown away by the fact that 90% of the start-ups fail within the first 5 years of their inception and the most common reasons listed by the IBM Business Institute in a report were ineffective marketing and a lack of focus on the user adoption of the product. User adoption is one of the key factors behind the success…

The attorney general for Washington, D.C., sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, alleging that he participated in decision-making that led to the Cambridge Analytica data breach. Filed in D.C. Superior Court, the suit echoes charges that the office of Attorney General Karl Racine leveled last year, when it sought to name Mr. Zuckerberg as a defendant in a lawsuit it filed in 2018 against…