Facebook Reels, which launched on Instagram as a competitor of TikTok, has expanded to 150 countries as a feature on Facebook.
03.02.2022 - 19:44 / deadline.com
A plunge in shares of Facebook parent Meta Platforms Facebook has erased more than than $200 billion of its market value, one of Wall Street’s steepest dips ever.
Shares are changing hands at about $243, down nearly 25% from yesterday’s close. It had hit a 52-week low of $237 on its fourth-quarter financials released after the market closed yesterday. Meta missed on earnings, saw Facebook’s daily active users dip for the first time ever as a public company (DAUs down by 1 million) and cited headwinds from inflation, foreign exchange, and an app tracking transparency feature Apple. Competition is heating up from platforms led by TikTok.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has therefore been pivoting the company to the so-called metaverse, including the name. Its stock symbol will also be changing from FB to MVRS sometime this quarter. The shift comes with a massive $10 billion investment in the sector that is also making Wall Street wince.
The VR and AV fueled metaverse concept – a network of virtual worlds fueled by social interaction that may also be the next iteration of the Internet — is starting to take hold but still in early stages.
In the near term, Facebook had warned of the squeeze by Apple’s app tracking technology. Apple now asks its device users to opt in, or agree, to having apps track their activity across the web. Turning the feature off makes it harder for companies like Meta to collect data on users. That impacts ad targeting, which drives revenue.
The stock drop had Wall Streeters debating whether yesterday’s news was the bottom, or if there’s more to come; if there are structural changes in the business; and even whether Meta is shifting to a value company in some ways from a growth company, and if that’s
Facebook Reels, which launched on Instagram as a competitor of TikTok, has expanded to 150 countries as a feature on Facebook.
Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood Issue, reacted to the news by saying, “That’s so funny. I wonder where.” It’s not that Stewart is actively avoiding royal gossip because of a sense of moral superiority. She says, “I’m no better than anyone! Of course, I want to know.”Still, the actor says she couldn’t even bring herself to watch Prince Harry and ’s with in full when it aired in March 2021.
Let the Facebook wars begin.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterParamount Pictures has given a taste of its upcoming theatrical film slate. During its annual investor day presentation on Tuesday, the studio announced plans for “A Quiet Place 3,” as well as another sequel to “Sonic the Hedgehog.”“A Quiet Place Part III” will debut in 2025.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe business anthology series “Super Pumped” has been renewed for Season 2 at Showtime.The news was announced as part of the ViacomCBS investor day presentation. Each season of the show will focus on a different major story from the world of business.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMatthew McConaughey had us fooled for a second.His new commercial for Salesforce, which he co-created and premiered during the Olympics, opens with the Oscar winner in an astronaut’s suit, making the spot look like it could be a trailer for a sequel to his 2014 film “Interstellar.”“I wanted this misdirect at the beginning,” McConaughey told me ahead of the ad playing during Super Bowl LVI on Sunday. “I wanted it to open and look very serious and in space because we’re about to pull the rug out from under you. Some people are going to think this is going to be the trailer for ‘Interstellar 2.’”Instead, McConaughey is floating among the stars in a hot air balloon before waxing philosophically, “It’s not time to escape.
Disney’s strong quarterly numbers, especially the rebound of its theme parks to 2019 levels of revenue and operating income, propelled a 3% gain for its stock despite the gloom on Wall Street.
HBO has closed a deal for Doomsday Machine, a limited series about Facebook starring Emmy winner Claire Foy as embattled tech giant COO Sheryl Sandberg and executive producing as well. Anonymous Content (Spotlight, Mr. Robot) and wiip (Mare of Easttown, Dickinson), which took the project to the marketplace in October, will co-produce with HBO.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVenture capitalist and right-wing booster Peter Thiel, after 17 years on the board of Facebook — now Meta Platforms — will step down as director of the internet giant.Thiel joined Meta’s board in April 2005, after he had invested $500,000 in the then-fledgling Facebook startup.Thiel is leaving Meta in order to “focus on influencing November’s midterm elections,” the New York Times reported, citing an anonymous source. “Mr.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMeta has hired the Foo Fighters to rock the metaverse.The social media giant (formerly known as Facebook) will host a free, livestreamed concert performed by Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters on Sunday, Feb. 13, immediately after the end of the Super Bowl.In addition to streaming on Facebook and Instagram, Meta will present the performance by the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers in an 180-degree virtual-reality concert in Horizon Venues, the company’s social VR app.The concert will be directed by noted music video director and filmmaker Mark Romanek.
is reportedly in talks to appear in a “Spider-Man” spinoff entitled “Madame Web” for Sony Pictures.S.J. Clarkson is set to direct, according to Deadline, while Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless will write the screenplay.The Madame Web character was first introduced in 1980’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic, issue number 210.She is described as a mutant who can predict the future of Spidey superheroes and is usually drawn as an old woman who is blind and paralyzed.
UPDATED with share price, quarterly stats: Shares of Snapchat parent Snap soared 60% on fourth-quarter gains in revenue and daily active users and a chorus of relief across Wall Street that it’s not Facebook.