Meta Platforms
American multinational technology corporation
Meta Platforms, Inc., known before 2021 as Facebook, Inc., is an American multinational Internet corporation which owns Facebook. It was owned by Mark Zuckerberg, other founders and the shared ownership given to its employees but it went public on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta, Inc. started to be publicly negotiated on May 18, 2012.
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Formerly | Facebook, Inc. |
Company type | Public company |
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Founded | October 28, 2021California, United States | in
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Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide (except blocked countries) |
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Owner | Mark Zuckerberg (controlling shareholder) |
Number of employees | 60,654 (March 31, 2021) |
Divisions | Facebook Reality Labs |
Subsidiaries | Novi Financial |
Website | www |
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It owns several social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. It owns Reality Labs, a virtual reality company.
References
change- ↑ "Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as chief product officer". The Verge. June 11, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ↑ "Facebook is getting more serious about becoming your go-to for mobile payments". The Verge. August 11, 2020. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- ↑ "Our History". Facebook. Archived from the original on November 15, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Shaban, Hamza (January 20, 2019). "Digital advertising to surpass print and TV for the first time, report says". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ↑ "FB Income Statement". NASDAQ.com.
- ↑ "FB Balance Sheet". NASDAQ.com.
- ↑ "Stats". Facebook. June 30, 2019. Archived from the original on November 15, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ↑ "Facebook - Financials". investor.fb.com. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
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