Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms, Inc., known before 2021 as Facebook, Inc., is an American multinational Internet corporation which owns Facebook. It was owned by Mark Zuckerberg, other founders and the shared ownership given to its employees but it went public on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta, Inc. started to be publicly negotiated on May 18, 2012.
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Formerly | Facebook, Inc. |
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Traded as | |
Industry | |
Founded | October 28, 2021California, United States | in
Founders | |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide (except blocked countries) |
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Revenue | US$85.97 billion (2020) |
US$32.67 billion (2020) | |
US$29.15 billion (2020) | |
Total assets | US$159.32 billion (2020) |
Total equity | US$128.29 billion (2020) |
Owner | Mark Zuckerberg (controlling shareholder) |
Number of employees | 60,654 (March 31, 2021) |
Divisions | Facebook Reality Labs |
Subsidiaries | Novi Financial |
Website | www |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] |
It owns several social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. It owns Reality Labs, a virtual reality company.
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Billboard on the Thomson Reuters building welcomes Facebook to Nasdaq, 2012
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, in 2012
Entrance to Meta's headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California
Entrance to Facebook's previous headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto, California
References
- ↑ "Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as chief product officer". The Verge. 2020-06-11. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/11/21288127/facebook-chief-product-officer-chris-cox-return-ceo. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
- ↑ "Facebook is getting more serious about becoming your go-to for mobile payments". The Verge. 2020-08-11. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363642/facebook-pay-mobile-payments-financial-david-marcus-instagram-whatsapp. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
- ↑ "Our History". Facebook. Archived from the original on November 15, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Shaban, Hamza (January 20, 2019). Digital advertising to surpass print and TV for the first time, report says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/20/digital-advertising-surpass-print-tv-first-time-report-says. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ↑ "FB Income Statement". NASDAQ.com.
- ↑ "FB Balance Sheet". NASDAQ.com.
- ↑ "Stats". Facebook. June 30, 2019. Archived from the original on November 15, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ↑ "Facebook - Financials". investor.fb.com. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
Other websites
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