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The FTC wants to prove Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking, so it wouldn’t view video app TikTok as a ...
Sam Altman’s ambitious $6.4 billion acquisition of io is drawing comparisons to the kind of audacious, future-facing bets ...
OpenAI is making a big bet in purchasing Jony Ive’s nascent startup, but it’s a deal reminiscent of some made by Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta used to be Facebook. Why state the obvious? The answer is that what’s obvious very much calls into question the FTC’s ...
Brian Acton testified in a US court that WhatsApp did not aim to create Facebook-like features, supporting Meta's defense in ...
In its telling of this alternate present, Instagram and WhatsApp are shadows of what they are in our world. They lacked the ...
The social media company called only a handful of witnesses as it sought to prove it helped Instagram and WhatsApp after ...
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton testified to this in the Meta antitrust case during a court hearing on May 20 in Washington.
Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson told Ars that "the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta defies reality," claiming that it ...
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete ...