On Oct. 28, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company known as Facebook would be changing its name. The company, now known as Meta , will still have Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus VR under its control.
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How many employees does Meta have? Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) has come a long way since its humble beginnings in a Harvard dorm room. The social network had 71,970 full-time employees as of December 2021 , up from just 150 people in 2006.
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Those plans are now coming into focus: Facebook is now called Meta, and it’s not just a social media company, it’s a metaverse company . And as the new name implies, Meta wants to win in this space, just as Facebook won in social media.
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It marked the company’s worst one-day loss since its Wall Street debut in 2012. “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be keen to coax the world into an alternate reality, but disappointing fourth-quarter results were quick to burst his metaverse bubble,” said Laura Hoy, an equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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