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2022 - 11 - 7

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Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week ... (CNA)

Meta Platforms is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday (Nov ...

"In 2023, we're going to focus our investments on a small number of high priority growth areas. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said he expects the metaverse investments to take about a decade to bear fruit. Advertisement

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Meta to Lay Off Thousands of Staff From This Week, WSJ Says (Bloomberg)

Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers from this week, Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with ...

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Meta to begin largest round of layoffs in company history (Human Resources Director)

Meta, parent company of Facebook, is expected to begin the largest headcount reduction in the Menlo Park, CA-based company's nearly 20-year history. The layoffs ...

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Meta reportedly set to cut thousands of jobs this week (Computerworld)

After seeing its global workforce grow by almost 70% during the pandemic, Meta's increasingly poor financial outlook is reportedly about to result in job ...

“The sad part is companies almost always immediately look to cut costs of the working people,” he said. In the third quarter alone, the division suffered a revenue loss of $3.7 billion, bringing its total yearly losses to $9.4 billion, with Meta anticipating these losses would “grow significantly year over year” in 2023. Musk also fired Twitter’s senior leadership alongside a number of company leaders, including the vice president of consumer product engineering. “So that means some teams will grow meaningfully, but most other teams will stay flat or shrink over the next year.” Third quarter revenue fell to $27.71 billion, a decrease of 4% year-over-year, while net income dropped 52% to $4.4 billion. According to former staff members, the teams impacted the most by Musk’s cuts include product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and certain core engineering teams.

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Meta Got an Upgrade. It Could Deliver Strong Return on Investment ... (Barron's)

Itau BBA analyst Thiago Alves Kapulskis upgraded shares of Meta to Outperform from Market Perform.

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