And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.įacebook has been laying the groundwork for a branding changeĪside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years.
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I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.įacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress.
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Scammers are using Facebook and dodgy APK files to steal your money.A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today.How did a “bug” on Facebook lead to increased views of harmful content over the last six months?.It’s time for Malaysia to penalise Facebook for allowing scam ads.Facebook still allows scammers to run fake ads targetting Malaysians.
The ad was still running and it was only taken down two days later.
Last Friday, the Ministry of Health has posted a statement to refute claims that it endorsed a diabetes recovery product that was advertised on Facebook. Scam ads on Facebook has been a regular problem and it appears that the social media platform is not doing enough to prevent such ads and to take action based on user reports. It urge everyone to be on high alert to protect yourself from scams.
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Xiaomi Malaysia has warned users that it will never ask for their credit card details, SMS OTP or eWallet login in exchange for free products. Yet these ads are still approved by Facebook, and it raises concerns if Facebook is prioritising ad revenue over user safety. According to the Page Transparency section of the fake “Mi Store Malaysia” page, the page has been renamed three times this year, which should raise major red flags for Facebook.