{"id":4729,"date":"2022-02-13T06:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/every-move-scrutinized-facebooks-rocky-road-to-the-metaverse\/"},"modified":"2022-02-13T06:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:39:06","slug":"every-move-scrutinized-facebooks-rocky-road-to-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/every-move-scrutinized-facebooks-rocky-road-to-the-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every move scrutinized\u2019: Facebook\u2019s rocky road to the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO has changed the world \u2013 but he faces regulatory, technological and branding troubles in his push to do it again<\/p>\n<p>It would hardly be hyperbole to say that since its founding in 2004, Facebook has taken over the world \u2013 counting more than 50% of the global population as its user base. But after years of domination built on advertising revenue, , the company has nearly overnight tried to knock down that empire and build anew.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, more than 15 years and 2.8 billion users after the then student Mark Zuckerberg launched the social media platform from his college dorm, Facebook announced it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/28\/facebook-name-change-rebrand-meta\">become<\/a> \u201cMeta\u201d and was refocusing on the company\u2019s virtual reality endeavors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/13\/meta-facebook-metaverse-zuckerberg-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/21060b930be0b3d563e3653e803cea58cd780074\/0_332_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c9df1a6b342308726a44ca887948176d\" title=\"\u2018Every move scrutinized\u2019: Facebook\u2019s rocky road to the metaverse\" \/>The CEO has changed the world \u2013 but he faces regulatory, technological and branding troubles in his push to do it again<br \/>\nIt would hardly be hyperbole to say that since its founding in 2004, Facebook has taken over the world \u2013 counting more than 50% of the global population as its user base. But after years of domination built on advertising revenue, , the company has nearly overnight tried to knock down that empire and build anew.<br \/>\nIn October 2021, more than 15 years and 2.8 billion users after the then student Mark Zuckerberg launched the social media platform from his college dorm, Facebook announced it had become \u201cMeta\u201d and was refocusing on the company\u2019s virtual reality endeavors. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO has changed the world \u2013 but he faces regulatory, technological and branding troubles in his push to do it again It would hardly be hyperbole to say that since its founding in 2004, Facebook has taken over the world \u2013 counting more than 50% of the global population as its user base. But &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/every-move-scrutinized-facebooks-rocky-road-to-the-metaverse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Every move scrutinized\u2019: Facebook\u2019s rocky road to the metaverse<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4730,"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\/4729"}],"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=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}