Despite awful taste, the Ray-Ban Meta smart-glasses have tripled in revenue over the past year.
> EssilorLuxottica said the success of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses contributed to its first-half overall sales of $16.25 billion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/ray-ban-met...
Meta Platforms
META
trading on NASDAQ
since 2012
$765.91
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-$7.94 since open
Meta creates and develops social media platforms and communication services like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, along with virtual and augmented reality hardware and software that are foundational to its vision of the metaverse.
| type | open | high | low |
market cap |
volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stock | $775.20 | $784.75 | $765.51 | $1.75T | 38.83M |
| eps | p/e | p/s |
operating margin |
profit margin |
yield |
| +$6.59 | 34.30 | 46.88 | 41.49% | 39.33% | 0.27% |
Meta shareholders suing Zuckerberg over intentionally failing to comply with FTC consent order requiring Facebook to protect user privacy. Facebook then spent more than $8 billion settling lawsuits over privacy violations. Shareholders now want compensation, arguing that Zuckerberg (and former COO Sheryl Sandberg) violated their fiduciary duties.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/business/meta...
Zuckerberg just waltzes into a classified Oval Office meeting.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am...
WTF is going on at the White House?
Jesus, Zuckerberg at Meta is offering $100,000,000 to poach employees from OpenAI.
This bubble cannot pop soon enough.
Also, where do I sign up?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/tech/meta-op...
Meta smart glasses coming to Oakley and Prada.
To be honest some heads up display sunglasses for cycling could be useful. All the stuff you get on a Garmin/Wahoo but without the computer now and instead right in your normal field of view. Doesn't seem like this iteration actually includes any AR features though, just more camera features like in the existing glasses.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/meta-oakley...
Holy crap these Meta Oakley glasses are ugly
https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-o...
It's finally happening - Meta is bringing ads into WhatsApp.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/business/tru...
The enshittification of WhatsApp was only a matter of time since its purchase by Facebook back in 2014 for $19 billion dollars. Actually the most interesting part about this is Zuckerberg calling WhatsApp "the next chapter" in Meta's history. This being in light of the > $100 billion spent on Metaverse and AI initiatives that have been all over the web.
It's crazy how WhatsApp has taken over the entire messaging market, other than in the United States. Businesses use WhatsApp for payments and customer support elsewhere in the world, it's completely ubiquitous.
42 state attorneys general are calling on Meta/Facebook to put an end to the rise of investment scams apparent on the site. Apparently retail investors are falling for these scams at an alarming rate, losing millions in the process.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/state-ags-m...
Zuckerberg is hiring 50 new AI developers on a new secret team to work on creating AGI (artificial general intelligence).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...
And now Meta has hired Jack Rae, a researcher formerly at Google's DeepMind AI unit, who will join this so-called superintelligence division.
Continuing their trend of destroying the fabric of civilization, Meta's new AI app is now showing you queries being made by other people.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-app...
Meta signs nuclear power deal with Constellation Energy
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/03/meta-si...
Meta has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy for the output of the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois, starting in June 2027. This deal, which involves approximately 1.1 gigawatts of emissions-free nuclear energy, will support Meta's clean energy goals and operations. The agreement also ensures the continued operation and relicensing of the Clinton nuclear facility, preserving over a thousand local jobs and providing significant tax revenue for the city.
Hell must be freezing.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/instag...
Instagram is releasing an App for the iPad later this year, as it is currently in "active testing" by employees.
I don't personally use any Facebook/Meta products anymore, but I legit remember this being an annoyance all the way back in 2011. I had a smartphone but I preferred using my 3rd generation iPad for just about everything because it was so far ahead of any other technology. But Instagram would only load as an iPhone app with all the incorrect sizing and whatnot.
Incredible it's now 2025 and Facebook is just now getting around to producing a native iPad app. Think of all the businesses that use Instagram these days to get work done - whether for reaching out to customers or even dealing with customer support through DMs. And they have been forced to do all that on a tiny phone screen all this time.