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Chairman / President

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO / Managing Director

Mark Zuckerberg

CFO / Finance Director

Susan Li

Industry

Technology, Social Media

Website

meta.com

Headquarters address

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:META

Year founded

2004

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg testifies at landmark US antitrust trial

Meta is accused by Federal Trade Commission of abusing its market power to acquire Instagram, WhatsApp before they could become competitors.

6 minutes ago

Social media

Video | How Big Tech’s shift toward Trump impacts Asia

14 Apr 2025 - 2:32PM

TSMC

TSMC’s revenue soars amid AI demand ahead of US tariffs

10 Apr 2025 - 2:55PMvideocam

US-China relations

Ex-Facebook exec tells lawmakers that Meta briefed China on US AI efforts

‘Careless People’ author Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses the company of betraying American values to win Beijing’s favour and grow its business.

10 Apr 2025 - 3:22PM

Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Director of Global Public Policy at Facebook, is sworn in before testifying during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba executive sees ‘explosive growth’ in AI applications in 2025

A four-day AI fair hosted by Alibaba Cloud in Beijing offers visitors a glimpse of the future.

9 Apr 2025 - 6:00PM

Wearables

Meta’s upcoming smart glasses with a screen and how they’ll work

US$1,000-plus deluxe smart glasses to have screen in front of right eye to display photos and apps, and to respond to hand-gesture controls.

3 Apr 2025 - 4:45PM

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft abandons data centre projects, sparking oversupply fears

Microsoft’s retrenchment in the last six months included lease cancellations and deferrals, analysts at investment bank TD Cowen said.

27 Mar 2025 - 10:09AM

Microsoft’s offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France. Photo: Reuters

Books and literature

Ex-Facebook director’s ‘explosive’ memoir about Meta trio’s ‘excesses’

How Mark Zuckerberg tried to get Facebook into China and Meta’s ‘profoundly flawed’ leading trio described by ex-global public policy chief.

7 Mar 2025 - 8:40AM

Technology

Opinion | How American AI ambitions limit options for Southeast Asia

As the US touts opportunity over safety in artificial intelligence, countries must balance potential economic gains with strategic interests.

4 Mar 2025 - 6:56PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Chinese sex doll maker sees jump in 2025 sales as AI improves user experience

WMDoll founder Liu Jiangxia says the integration of generative AI models ‘makes the dolls more responsive and interactive’.

7 Mar 2025 - 9:52AMvideocam

About 90 per cent of WMDoll’s sales are outside mainland China, with sex doll shipments to the US making up half of the company’s export volume. Photo: Thomas Yau

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s AI models give boost to China’s smart glasses sector to take on Meta

The start-up’s powerful and cost-efficient models have “fundamentally reshaped the economics of AI deployment’, smart glasses maker Rokid’s founder says.

7 Feb 2025 - 6:15PM

The open-source nature of DeepSeek’s models is expected to help accelerate the roll-out of artificial intelligence in smart glasses. Photo: Shutterstock

Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg visits White House to discuss US tech leadership

Facebook co-founder has said he is optimistic Trump will help ensure US tech companies’ dominance, helping them to beat competitors abroad.

7 Feb 2025 - 7:56AM

China technology

Opinion | DeepSeek success shouldn’t be seen as a win for China or loss for US

While hawks on both sides say cooperation will hurt national security, Chinese and US scientists have so much to gain from sharing research.

4 Feb 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Meta sends mixed signals as quarterly sales beat estimates but outlook muted

Meta shares were flat after the market closed but rose, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke optimistically about firm's AI initiatives.

30 Jan 2025 - 2:05PM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba springs a Lunar New Year surprise on DeepSeek, global AI market

Alibaba touts that its new Qwen 2.5-Max AI model had ‘comprehensively outperformed’ DeepSeek-V3 in certain benchmark tests.

30 Jan 2025 - 2:56PMvideocam

Alibaba Cloud’s new Qwen 2.5-Max AI model is now available for developers and enterprises. Photo: Shutterstock

Millionaires and billionaires

World’s richest people lose US$108 billion after DeepSeek sell-off

Nvidia’s Huang, Oracle’s Ellison and ex-Binance CEO CZ were hit hard, though Meta’s Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Bezos escaped unscathed.

29 Jan 2025 - 9:23AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Meta Platforms to spend US$65 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025: Zuckerberg

Meta’s chief executive said the funds will be used to build a data centre ‘so large that it would cover a significant part of Manhattan’.

25 Jan 2025 - 11:31AM

Artificial intelligence

Beijing puts spotlight on China’s new face of AI, DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng

Liang’s participation at Monday’s meeting with China’s premier reflects start-up DeepSeek’s growing prominence in the AI industry.

28 Jan 2025 - 10:32AM

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, left, listens to DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng at a meeting in Beijing on January 20, 2025. Photo: CCTV

US-China relations

TikTok CEO expected to attend Trump’s inauguration: reports

Incoming administration officials and some Democrats lead effort to try to help popular Chinese-owned app avert being banned in the US.

17 Jan 2025 - 7:23AMvideocam

Social media

Meta Platforms to cut roughly 5 per cent of staff, targeting lowest performers

As of September, Meta employed about 72,000 people, so a 5 per cent reduction could affect roughly 3,600 jobs.

15 Jan 2025 - 11:40AM

Social media

Meta’s US fact-checking shutdown sparks fears of disinformation crisis in Asia

Analysts warn the decision could weaken efforts to combat hate speech and misinformation in regions vulnerable to online manipulation.

13 Jan 2025 - 5:12PMvideocam

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on January 31, 2024. Photo: AFP

Fashion

Smart glasses without premium pricing? Welcome to the tech’s new era

Back in 2013, Google Glass would set you back US$1,500. Now, smart glasses are as low as US$200. Some were on display at the CES tech event.

13 Jan 2025 - 11:20AM

An attendee wears the Amazon Echo Frames smart glasses during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In 2013, Google Glass set you back US$1,500. Now, smart glasses cost as little as US$200. Photo: AFP

Donald Trump

Meta abandons racial diversity programmes as Zuckerberg woos Trump

The changes come soon after the platform dropped fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US, and mark a further right-wing shift.

11 Jan 2025 - 11:58AM

Mark Zuckerberg

Regulating online hate speech ‘not censorship’: UN rights chief

If efforts to create safe online spaces are called censorship, ‘that ignores the fact that unregulated space means some people are silenced’.

10 Jan 2025 - 8:54PM

Social media

Meta studying EU impact of end to fact checking: French minister

The EU’s Digital Services Act requires major platforms to carry out a risk analysis before launching any new service in Europe.

9 Jan 2025 - 10:14AM

Donald Trump

Meta taps US Republican Joel Kaplan for global policy team as Nick Clegg leaves

Former UK deputy prime minister Clegg ceded his job to Kaplan, who served as deputy chief of staff for policy under George W Bush.

4 Jan 2025 - 5:57AM

Joel Kaplan has been tapped by Meta to lead its global policy team. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Meet DeepSeek: the Chinese start-up that is changing how AI models are trained

Hangzhou-based DeepSeek is 2025’s ‘biggest dark horse’ in open-source large language models, Nvidia research scientist Jim Fan says.

28 Jan 2025 - 10:34AM

Artificial intelligence

Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model outperforms Meta, OpenAI products

DeepSeek’s V3 model was trained for two months at a cost of US$5.58 million, using significantly fewer computing resources than its rivals.

28 Jan 2025 - 10:33AMvideocam

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