{"id":3469,"date":"2021-10-28T18:38:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-announces-name-change-to-meta-in-rebranding-effort\/"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:38:54","slug":"facebook-announces-name-change-to-meta-in-rebranding-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-announces-name-change-to-meta-in-rebranding-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook announces name change to Meta in rebranding effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holding company will encompass Facebook as well as its apps, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, and the virtual reality brand Oculus<\/p>\n<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta, in a rebrand that comes as the company faces an ongoing series of public relations crises.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg made the announcement at the Facebook\u2019s annual conference Thursday, where he outlined his vision for the metaverse \u2013 a digital world built over our own, comprising virtual reality headsets and augmented reality. \u201cWe believe the metaverse will be the successor of the mobile internet,\u201d Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/28\/facebook-name-change-rebrand-meta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e808a3edf9673e5b612f794569fa88328434f977\/0_190_5694_3416\/master\/5694.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b639b8c96e2839d8ac4cec2ddc5d21a9\" title=\"Facebook announces name change to Meta in rebranding effort\" \/>Holding company will encompass Facebook as well as its apps, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, and the virtual reality brand Oculus<br \/>\nFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta, in a rebrand that comes as the company faces an ongoing series of public relations crises.<br \/>\nZuckerberg made the announcement at the Facebook\u2019s annual conference Thursday, where he outlined his vision for the metaverse \u2013 a digital world built over our own, comprising virtual reality headsets and augmented reality. \u201cWe believe the metaverse will be the successor of the mobile internet,\u201d Zuckerberg said. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding company will encompass Facebook as well as its apps, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, and the virtual reality brand Oculus Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta, in a rebrand that comes as the company faces an ongoing series of public relations &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-announces-name-change-to-meta-in-rebranding-effort\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook announces name change to Meta in rebranding effort<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}