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Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name

The Verge2021-10-20

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Facebook is planning to change its company name next week ...

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trace10
·2021-10-21
Am opportune time for a name change [白眼]
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Deonc
·2021-10-20
Great. Please like and comment.
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- Deonc:
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Fam_Fam87
·2021-10-20
Ok
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Manflyz
·2021-10-20
Nice!
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Jialatsia
·2021-10-20
Meep
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carrots
·2021-10-20
Like
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infinite88
·2021-10-20
interesting... not sure how much a rebranding would help the company though. it still depends on fundamentals. Looking forward to seeing what they have to offer about the metaverse!
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- Khoo12:
  [Smile]
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- carrots:
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JaiVenky
·2021-10-20
Nice
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woonws
·2021-10-20
Rare case where well known companies with built up brand name want to rebrand, may lose brand name reputation?
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Sagu
·2021-10-20
Definitely very very curious for the name $Facebook(FB)$to change. So many guesses running through but can’t nail down to one name yet. If Google changed to $Alphabet(GOOG)$. What can $Facebook(FB)$change to ..
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- GuanJL:
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- Wayneqq:
  Google did not change to alphabet.. alphabet is the parent company of google.. is just like sea limited is the parent of shopee..
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KYHBKO
·2021-10-20
will be interesting to see how the change in branding affect the new and existing customers. in essence, the existing customers shouldn't be affected by babe change but the metaverse should be drawn to this, especially if $Facebook(FB)$ is marketed as a key player.more changes to follow as we see the rise of a virtual world. with this comes different opportunities and revenue. let's look forward to the coming conference. happy investing all.
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- 滚股怪:
  Go
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- GuSen:
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keaty
·2021-10-20
Better do.... A bit up to date on tech on growth path😉
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- 滚股怪:
  O k
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- Lun88:
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Mireyachen
·2021-10-20
Hope FB split its share price too when the new name go public
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breAkdaWn
·2021-10-20
whats in a name? a rose by any other name smells as sweet
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- breAkdaWn:
  exactly! they need to cover up..so what better way than a name change.
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- woonws:
  Haha the potential loss of reputation and branding from name change
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SimonTan91
·2021-10-20
Ok
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SeanSak
·2021-10-20
Like n comment
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koolgal
·2021-10-20
How exciting! A new name, a new beginning for Facebook! I can't wait to see what's the new name is! Go Facebook! 🌟🌟🌟🚀🚀🚀🌙🌙🌙
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- 滚股怪:
  Face the muisc
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Victorhc88
·2021-10-20
Like pls
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1000010101O
·2021-10-20
[Smile]
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sfleong1
·2021-10-20
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A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859581443,"gmtCreate":1634711209185,"gmtModify":1634711209256,"author":{"id":"4094598903210290","authorId":"4094598903210290","name":"Manflyz","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/43d06bf6a1b2d9c0b1883e90efc2c217","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4094598903210290","authorIdStr":"4094598903210290"},"htmlText":"Nice!","listText":"Nice!","text":"Nice!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859581443","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. 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Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859508668,"gmtCreate":1634706599663,"gmtModify":1634706600098,"author":{"id":"4087704243448520","authorId":"4087704243448520","name":"carrots","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c42ac514b7bae60da384f8f82a555127","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4087704243448520","authorIdStr":"4087704243448520"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859508668","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859277497,"gmtCreate":1634706108115,"gmtModify":1634706108292,"author":{"id":"4097069331028630","authorId":"4097069331028630","name":"infinite88","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9c85f8bc6e087b5c8fe1e54a45cd27a5","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4097069331028630","authorIdStr":"4097069331028630"},"htmlText":"interesting... not sure how much a rebranding would help the company though. it still depends on fundamentals. Looking forward to seeing what they have to offer about the metaverse!","listText":"interesting... not sure how much a rebranding would help the company though. it still depends on fundamentals. Looking forward to seeing what they have to offer about the metaverse!","text":"interesting... not sure how much a rebranding would help the company though. it still depends on fundamentals. Looking forward to seeing what they have to offer about the metaverse!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859277497","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859246330,"gmtCreate":1634704347279,"gmtModify":1634704347707,"author":{"id":"4091884668412330","authorId":"4091884668412330","name":"Sagu","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3aaf50a784d504c2e98ff3a8e898a5b3","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4091884668412330","authorIdStr":"4091884668412330"},"htmlText":"Definitely very very curious for the name <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">$Facebook(FB)$</a>to change. So many guesses running through but can’t nail down to one name yet. If Google changed to <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">$Alphabet(GOOG)$</a>. What can <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">$Facebook(FB)$</a>change to ..","listText":"Definitely very very curious for the name <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">$Facebook(FB)$</a>to change. So many guesses running through but can’t nail down to one name yet. If Google changed to <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">$Alphabet(GOOG)$</a>. What can <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">$Facebook(FB)$</a>change to ..","text":"Definitely very very curious for the name $Facebook(FB)$to change. So many guesses running through but can’t nail down to one name yet. If Google changed to $Alphabet(GOOG)$. What can $Facebook(FB)$change to ..","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859246330","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6262510,"gmtCreate":1634709747401,"gmtModify":1634709747439,"authorId":4088231358037390,"author":{"id":4088231358037390,"idStr":"4088231358037390","authorId":4088231358037390,"name":"GuanJL","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f2b10f3c48e549fcb70977994cc939c6","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859246330,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"🍑","text":"🍑","html":"🍑"},{"id":6262009,"gmtCreate":1634705735387,"gmtModify":1634706636330,"authorId":3574671931921507,"author":{"id":3574671931921507,"idStr":"3574671931921507","authorId":3574671931921507,"name":"Wayneqq","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/05d24be2c05653913e90f51e69cfe2a8","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859246330,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Google did not change to alphabet.. alphabet is the parent company of google.. is just like sea limited is the parent of shopee..","text":"Google did not change to alphabet.. alphabet is the parent company of google.. is just like sea limited is the parent of shopee..","html":"Google did not change to alphabet.. alphabet is the parent company of google.. is just like sea limited is the parent of shopee.."}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859250026,"gmtCreate":1634702472111,"gmtModify":1634702472111,"author":{"id":"3574381076586256","authorId":"3574381076586256","name":"KYHBKO","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c3bcbc7f9a10836dea92afc94bf39b5b","vip":2,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574381076586256","authorIdStr":"3574381076586256"},"htmlText":"will be interesting to see how the change in branding affect the new and existing customers. in essence, the existing customers shouldn't be affected by babe change but the metaverse should be drawn&nbsp;to this, especially if&nbsp;<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">$Facebook(FB)$</a> is marketed as a key player.more changes to follow as we see the rise of a virtual world. with this comes different opportunities and revenue. let's look forward to the coming conference. happy investing all.","listText":"will be interesting to see how the change in branding affect the new and existing customers. in essence, the existing customers shouldn't be affected by babe change but the metaverse should be drawn&nbsp;to this, especially if&nbsp;<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">$Facebook(FB)$</a> is marketed as a key player.more changes to follow as we see the rise of a virtual world. with this comes different opportunities and revenue. let's look forward to the coming conference. happy investing all.","text":"will be interesting to see how the change in branding affect the new and existing customers. in essence, the existing customers shouldn't be affected by babe change but the metaverse should be drawn to this, especially if $Facebook(FB)$ is marketed as a key player.more changes to follow as we see the rise of a virtual world. with this comes different opportunities and revenue. let's look forward to the coming conference. happy investing all.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":9,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859250026","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6262629,"gmtCreate":1634710520453,"gmtModify":1634710520565,"authorId":4091089381144950,"author":{"id":4091089381144950,"idStr":"4091089381144950","authorId":4091089381144950,"name":"滚股怪","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b67621b4133ca0db91bff9766152a448","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859250026,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Go","text":"Go","html":"Go"},{"id":6261681,"gmtCreate":1634703560453,"gmtModify":1634703560569,"authorId":3581847021927100,"author":{"id":3581847021927100,"idStr":"3581847021927100","authorId":3581847021927100,"name":"GuSen","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1b70044f21c62e929a7c4b5157b5a273","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859250026,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"👍🏻","text":"👍🏻","html":"👍🏻"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859225059,"gmtCreate":1634702201919,"gmtModify":1634702208524,"author":{"id":"3578631759891221","authorId":"3578631759891221","name":"keaty","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bcf9d00e41b755619a4b4c3eb6f05541","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3578631759891221","authorIdStr":"3578631759891221"},"htmlText":"Better do.... A bit up to date on tech on growth path😉","listText":"Better do.... A bit up to date on tech on growth path😉","text":"Better do.... A bit up to date on tech on growth path😉","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859225059","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6262607,"gmtCreate":1634710431300,"gmtModify":1634710431420,"authorId":4091089381144950,"author":{"id":4091089381144950,"idStr":"4091089381144950","authorId":4091089381144950,"name":"滚股怪","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b67621b4133ca0db91bff9766152a448","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859225059,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"O k","text":"O k","html":"O k"},{"id":6261671,"gmtCreate":1634703477973,"gmtModify":1634703478079,"authorId":3570689854299608,"author":{"id":3570689854299608,"idStr":"3570689854299608","authorId":3570689854299608,"name":"Lun88","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8fd11c854c4768369b7450d2e6813e13","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859225059,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859221784,"gmtCreate":1634701856676,"gmtModify":1634701857302,"author":{"id":"3580082297864003","authorId":"3580082297864003","name":"Mireyachen","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a91c46253c0f6f4ea2e6ca14c8079872","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580082297864003","authorIdStr":"3580082297864003"},"htmlText":"Hope FB split its share price too when the new name go public","listText":"Hope FB split its share price too when the new name go public","text":"Hope FB split its share price too when the new name go public","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859221784","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6262111,"gmtCreate":1634706454744,"gmtModify":1634706454744,"authorId":3569809505691000,"author":{"id":3569809505691000,"idStr":"3569809505691000","authorId":3569809505691000,"name":"breAkdaWn","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859229540,"type":1,"supId":6261808,"prevId":0,"content":"exactly! they need to cover up..so what better way than a name change.","text":"exactly! they need to cover up..so what better way than a name change.","html":"exactly! they need to cover up..so what better way than a name change."},{"id":6261808,"gmtCreate":1634704330030,"gmtModify":1634704330073,"authorId":3581999478634265,"author":{"id":3581999478634265,"idStr":"3581999478634265","authorId":3581999478634265,"name":"woonws","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f26ed1a10ee84ab97229aad191ef3133","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859229540,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Haha the potential loss of reputation and branding from name <u>change</u>","text":"Haha the potential loss of reputation and branding from name <u>change</u>","html":"Haha the potential loss of reputation and branding from name <u>change</u>"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859229141,"gmtCreate":1634701714607,"gmtModify":1634701773052,"author":{"id":"3581989576547489","authorId":"3581989576547489","name":"SimonTan91","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33a746662324e75f8c65f010f1588b16","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581989576547489","authorIdStr":"3581989576547489"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859229141","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859265131,"gmtCreate":1634701391428,"gmtModify":1634701574525,"author":{"id":"3581585664475701","authorId":"3581585664475701","name":"SeanSak","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4a62d3d455150e01d4dc6c67bd4f9c0d","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581585664475701","authorIdStr":"3581585664475701"},"htmlText":"Like n comment","listText":"Like n comment","text":"Like n comment","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859265131","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. 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Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6263054,"gmtCreate":1634715239170,"gmtModify":1634715239170,"authorId":3559581955535845,"author":{"id":3559581955535845,"idStr":"3559581955535845","authorId":3559581955535845,"name":"koolgal","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c05274d88ffc0434623e57350c52c70a","vip":2,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859260264,"type":1,"supId":6262586,"prevId":0,"content":"Thanks 👍😊","text":"Thanks 👍😊","html":"Thanks 👍😊"},{"id":6262586,"gmtCreate":1634710291459,"gmtModify":1634710291573,"authorId":4091089381144950,"author":{"id":4091089381144950,"idStr":"4091089381144950","authorId":4091089381144950,"name":"滚股怪","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b67621b4133ca0db91bff9766152a448","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859260264,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Face the muisc","text":"Face the muisc","html":"Face the muisc"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859287607,"gmtCreate":1634700799851,"gmtModify":1634700800622,"author":{"id":"3582248650466523","authorId":"3582248650466523","name":"Victorhc88","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d72a1d9498132424b1eddb4db3c77265","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582248650466523","authorIdStr":"3582248650466523"},"htmlText":"Like pls","listText":"Like pls","text":"Like pls","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859287607","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6261409,"gmtCreate":1634701638119,"gmtModify":1634701638157,"authorId":3581840130059040,"author":{"id":3581840130059040,"idStr":"3581840130059040","authorId":3581840130059040,"name":"tungleh","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/862170607dcc04a30a6db5b2beb5c8c9","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859287607,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>Done</u>","text":"<u>Done</u>","html":"<u>Done</u>"},{"id":6261314,"gmtCreate":1634701180301,"gmtModify":1634701180337,"authorId":3579759306103275,"author":{"id":3579759306103275,"idStr":"3579759306103275","authorId":3579759306103275,"name":"hpt","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/986ef7c951112f7be64cfd5d6c1672c5","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859287607,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Like","text":"Like","html":"Like"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859280823,"gmtCreate":1634699933196,"gmtModify":1634699933373,"author":{"id":"3581326346667529","authorId":"3581326346667529","name":"1000010101O","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581326346667529","authorIdStr":"3581326346667529"},"htmlText":"[Smile]&nbsp;","listText":"[Smile]&nbsp;","text":"[Smile]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859280823","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6261134,"gmtCreate":1634700144308,"gmtModify":1634700144424,"authorId":3581466055330001,"author":{"id":3581466055330001,"idStr":"3581466055330001","authorId":3581466055330001,"name":"Steventeo","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f579b5cba569decf00183de8a6a2ab3e","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859280823,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"oh <u>no</u>","text":"oh <u>no</u>","html":"oh <u>no</u>"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":859217257,"gmtCreate":1634699849907,"gmtModify":1634699850653,"author":{"id":"3583570345500843","authorId":"3583570345500843","name":"sfleong1","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2ec42f3f2b911279950a45a9140bc358","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3583570345500843","authorIdStr":"3583570345500843"},"htmlText":"Like n comment","listText":"Like n comment","text":"Like n comment","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":4,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/859217257","repostId":1134206372,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1134206372","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1634698940,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1134206372?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-20 11:02","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1134206372","media":"The Verge","summary":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s am","content":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6075a155f12fa95060522ec8c58610bb\" tg-width=\"1220\" tg-height=\"813\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.</p>\n<p>The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”</b></p>\n<p>Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told&nbsp;<i>The Verge</i>&nbsp;that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”</p>\n<p>A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to&nbsp;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and&nbsp;public trust&nbsp;in how Facebook does business is falling.</p>\n<p>Facebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.</p>\n<p>I’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to&nbsp;Horizon Worlds&nbsp;shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration&nbsp;called Horizon Workrooms.</p>\n<p><b>FACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE</b></p>\n<p>Aside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook&nbsp;announced plans&nbsp;to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.</p>\n<p>The metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg told<i>The Verge’</i>s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”</p>\n<p>Complicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined&nbsp;originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFacebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-20 11:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse><strong>The Verge</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1134206372","content_text":"Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse\nIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images\nFacebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.\nThe coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.\nFACEBOOK INTENDS TO TRANSITION TO “BEING A METAVERSE COMPANY”\nFacebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July,he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”\nA rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.\nFacebook isn’t the first well-known tech company to change its company name as its ambitions expand. In 2015, Google reorganized entirely under a holding company called Alphabet, partly to signal that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling conglomerate with companies making driverless cars and health tech. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. in 2016, the same year it started calling itself a “camera company” and debuted its first pair of Spectacles camera glasses.\nI’m told that the new Facebook company name is a closely-guarded secret within its walls and not known widely, even among its full senior leadership. A possible name could have something to do with Horizon, the name of the still-unreleased VR version of Facebook-meets-Roblox that the company has been developing for the past few years. The name of that app was recently tweaked to Horizon Worlds shortly after Facebook demoed a version for workplace collaboration called Horizon Workrooms.\nFACEBOOK HAS BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BRANDING CHANGE\nAside from Zuckerberg’s comments, Facebook has been steadily laying the groundwork for a greater focus on the next generation of technology. This past summer it set up a dedicated metaverse team. More recently, it announced that the head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, will be promoted to chief technology officer. And just a couple of days ago Facebook announced plans to hire 10,000 more employees to work on the metaverse in Europe.\nThe metaverse is “going to be a big focus, and I think that this is just going to be a big part of the next chapter for the way that the internet evolves after the mobile internet,” Zuckerberg toldThe Verge’s Casey Newtonthis summer. “And I think it’s going to be the next big chapter for our company too, really doubling down in this area.”\nComplicating matters is that, while Facebook has been heavily promoting the idea of the metaverse in recent weeks, it’s still not a concept that’s widely understood.The term was coined originally by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson to describe a virtual world people escape to from a dystopian, real world. Now it’s being adopted by one of the world’s largest and most controversial companies — and it’ll have to explain why its own virtual world is worth diving into.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6261410,"gmtCreate":1634701645984,"gmtModify":1634701646099,"authorId":3581840130059040,"author":{"id":3581840130059040,"idStr":"3581840130059040","authorId":3581840130059040,"name":"tungleh","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/862170607dcc04a30a6db5b2beb5c8c9","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859217257,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>Done</u>","text":"<u>Done</u>","html":"<u>Done</u>"},{"id":6261308,"gmtCreate":1634701158637,"gmtModify":1634701158670,"authorId":3586680449031942,"author":{"id":3586680449031942,"idStr":"3586680449031942","authorId":3586680449031942,"name":"JhNerdy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fe3dbea8fe9eb28fff90314fbc1b0187","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859217257,"type":1,"supId":6261111,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>Ok</u>","text":"<u>Ok</u>","html":"<u>Ok</u>"},{"id":6261115,"gmtCreate":1634699939965,"gmtModify":1634699940070,"authorId":3581326346667529,"author":{"id":3581326346667529,"idStr":"3581326346667529","authorId":3581326346667529,"name":"1000010101O","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859217257,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"[Smile]","text":"[Smile]","html":"[Smile]"},{"id":6261111,"gmtCreate":1634699911839,"gmtModify":1634699911871,"authorId":3574521189147374,"author":{"id":3574521189147374,"idStr":"3574521189147374","authorId":3574521189147374,"name":"ping23","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c38fda829a130d716804cbae538a7cb8","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":859217257,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>ok</u>","text":"<u>ok</u>","html":"<u>ok</u>"}],"langContent":"CN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":206,"commentSize":30,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}