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Mark Zuckerberg thought a rebranding of Facebook to Meta last year as part of its business strategy to becoming a virtual-reality based company, instead of a company tainted with multiple data privacy scandals, could revitalize the social media company. Instead, the company lost a mind-boggling US$251.3 billion in market value in just one day on […]
... written on Feb 04 2022A Desperate Move To Rebrand Facebook – Here’s The Toxic Reason Zuckerberg Changed Its Name To “Meta”
Facebook is now known as Meta in a rebranding exercise to reflect its expansion into the metaverse, something that exists only in science-fiction books or movies like “The Matrix”. Effectively, Facebook Inc. – the parent company of WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Oculus – is called Meta Platforms Inc. The company is moving towards augmented reality […]
... written on Nov 01 2021Grab Holdings Inc. is going public in the United States through a merger with US-based Altimeter Growth Corp. The partnership, which values the Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant at a mind-boggling US$39.6 billion in market capitalization, will see its stock trade on the Nasdaq Composite Index. Essentially, that makes Grab the Southeast Asia’s […]
... written on Apr 14 2021Less than a decade ago, people would laugh at the idea of digital currency, popularly known as bitcoin. On Monday, the value of the cryptocurrency market topped US$2 trillion for the first time. According to CoinGecko, which track the values of digital currencies, the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market has doubled in just over […]
... written on Apr 07 2021After boasting on January 13 how its active users breached the 500 million milestones, thanks to WhatsApp new privacy policy, Telegram happily blasted another notification to its users on January 29. It claims over 100 million new users joined Telegram in January 2021 alone, seeking more privacy and freedom. But bragging was not the reason […]
... written on Jan 31 2021Millions of WhatsApp users have retaliated, and Mark Zuckerberg’s team has responded. The Facebook-owned messaging service app has decided to delay its initial Feb 8 deadline to suspend the accounts of those who disagreed to comply with its new privacy policy. On Saturday (Jan 16), WhatsApp said “no one will have their account suspended or […]
... written on Jan 18 2021Donald Trump had fought fiercely trying to bring China to its knee. But after close to 3 years since the U.S. president started the trade war in March 2018, the dragon is still standing tall – alive and kicking with a smile. Trump’s famous tweet – “trade wars are good, and easy to win” – […]
... written on Jan 15 2021WhatsApp rival Telegram has breached 500 million active users. In announcing its new milestone, the company also proudly sent a message to its giant pool of users that in the past 72 hours alone, more than 25 million new users from around the world (38% came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America […]
... written on Jan 13 2021Under the pretext of protecting national security, outgoing President Donald Trump has decided to make the U.S.-China relationship messier for President-elect Joe Biden by banning more Chinese apps. Mr Trump on Tuesday (Jan 5) signed an executive order banning transactions with eight more Chinese software applications. With just over 2 weeks before Biden takes […]
... written on Jan 06 2021Alibaba has set another new sales record for this year’s annual “Singles Day” shopping spree. The Singles Day, first started in China as a 24-hour shopping event that celebrates people who are not in relationships, has been such a massive success that it makes Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the United States look like […]
... written on Nov 12 2020
