Here are the main things the company announced today at its big Connect conference: the Quest Pro, a big partnership with Microsoft, and legs are maybe coming to VR one day.
Also, I interviewed CEO Mark Zuckerberg about all this and more. You can listen to the conversation on Decoder or watch it on our YouTube channel:
A year after rebranding Facebook to Meta, Mark Zuckerberg is still all in on building the metaverse
Thanks to Salvador Rodriguez at The Wall Street Journal, we get a rare peek into the financials of ByteDance, the Beijing-based, privately-held tech conglomerate behind TikTok. In the first three months of this year, ByteDance told employees it had a net loss of $4.7 billion and $18.3 billion in total revenue. By comparison, Meta reported $8.5 billion in profit and $27,9 billion in revenue for the same period.
That’s according to fresh reporting from Insider and Reuters. According to Reuters, the problem has affected dozens of Twitter advertisers, including big brands like Disney and Comcast. (Also, Twitter internally estimates that 13 percent of all tweets contain porn.) The Verge first revealed Twitter’s challenges in policing child porn on its platform last month.
A conversation about the legacy of Steve Jobs
