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  3. about.fb.com › news › 2021The Facebook Company Is Now Meta | Meta

    Oct 28, 2021 · October 28, 2021. Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

  4. www.theverge.com › 22749919 › markMark Zuckerberg on why Facebook is rebranding to Meta

    Oct 28, 2021 · Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook is rebranding to Meta. The company wants to move past the ‘confusion and awkwardness’ of sharing a name with its main app. By Alex...

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  5. www.nytimes.com › meta-facebook-zuckerbergWhy Did Facebook Become Meta? - The New York Times

    Oct 29, 2021 · Instead, Mr. Zuckerberg and his lieutenants cheerfully laid out their vision for the so-called metaverse, the immersive virtual environment that Facebook — which, as of...

  6. www.newscientist.com › article › 2295438-why-hasMeta: Why has Facebook changed its name and what is the ...

    Oct 29, 2021 · 29 October 2021. CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains that Facebook is now Meta. Meta. Prepare for plenty of confusion in the coming months, because Facebook – whose products are used by more than...

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  7. www.abc.net.au › news › 2021/10/29Why is Facebook changing its name, and what does meta mean?

    • Is Facebook Changing Its Name?
    • What Is The Metaverse?
    • What Is The Meaning of Meta?

    The Facebook company has changed its name to Meta, but the social networking app Facebook will keep its name. It has also adopted a new logo (is it just us or does that look familiar…). The name change is to bring the company's "apps and technologies under one new company brand", it said in a statement. Since Facebook launched in 2004, the company ...

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    The metaverse is a virtual world you can plug yourself into and do — in theory — almost anything. Movies like The Matrix, Ready Player One and Tron explore the concept, and it is often depicted as a corrupt system to which people living in a dystopian society escape to (sounds like fun right?). Mr Zuckerberg said the metaverse would be a place wher...

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    Meta is a prefix — a word put before another — that means after or or beyond, to operate at a higher level, or change. For example, metacarpus (the finger bones after the wrist), metalanguage (language used to describe another language) and metamorphosis (a change of form). But it has another meaning in pop culture: to describe when something is be...

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  8. www.bbc.com › news › technology-59083601Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand - BBC

    Oct 28, 2021 · AFP via Getty Images. Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice on the metaverse. Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand. The company said it would better...

  9. www.nytimes.com › facebook-meta-name-changeFacebook Changes Corporate Name to Meta - The New York Times

    Oct 28, 2021 · It will begin trading under the stock ticker MVRS beginning on Dec. 1. The company will also rebrand some of its virtual-reality products as Meta, shifting away from the original brand name of...