Tag: meta

WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam

WhatsApp Business has grown to over 200 million monthly users over the past few years. That means there are tons of businesses sending messages...

Meta hires Salesforce’s CEO of AI, Clara Shih, to lead new business AI group

Meta hired Salesforce’s CEO of AI, Clara Shih, to lead a new organization building AI tools for businesses that use Meta’s apps to...

Sales tax automation startup Kintsugi doubled its valuation this year

A 2018 Supreme Court ruling eliminated the requirement that an e-commerce retailer needed a physical location in a state in order for said...

Meta taps US, UK universities to test VR in education, creates digital twin ‘metaversities’ in Europe

As part of an ongoing effort to embed virtual reality (VR) in education, Meta has launched a new partnership with a slew of...

FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information

The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by...

‘For You’ feeds fail on election night, offering outdated information, angering users

“For You” algorithms that promote the most interesting content across a social network, personalized to the individual user, offered a disjointed, outdated, and...