{"id":39150,"date":"2021-10-28T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=39150"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:07:09","slug":"facebook-changes-its-name-to-meta-in-major-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-changes-its-name-to-meta-in-major-rebrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta, in a rebrand that comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises.<br><br>Zuckerberg made the announcement at the Facebook\u2019s annual conference Thursday, where he outlined his vision for the metaverse \u2013 a digital world built over our own, comprising virtual reality headsets and augmented reality. \u201cWe believe the metaverse will be the successor of the mobile internet,\u201d Zuckerberg said.<br><br>The new holding company Meta will encompass Facebook, its largest subsidiary, as well as apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and the virtual reality brand Oculus.<br><br>The Guardian<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta, in a rebrand that comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises.Zuckerberg made the announcement at the Facebook\u2019s annual conference Thursday, where he outlined his vision for the metaverse \u2013 a digital world &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39152,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39150\/revisions\/39152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}