Articles about Meta

Tech Moves: Smartsheet and Zillow add VPs; Zenoti hires CFO; Meta taps product leader

Eva Schoenleitner joined enterprise software giant Smartsheet as vice president of partner. Schoenleitner has extensive experience working in Europe and… Read More

Tech Moves: iSpot’s new CTO; VMWare exec returns to Microsoft; Expedia CFO to resign

— Nipun Dureja is now chief technology officer for iSpot, a Bellevue, Wash., company that measures the impact of advertising… Read More

Tech Moves: Meta leader for Pacific NW steps down; Phase Genomics adds to C-suite

Paresh Rajwat this summer stepped down from his role as the Pacific Northwest head of office for Meta, which has… Read More

This virtual reality game encourages rhythmic breathing to help with mental health

At first glance, Deepwell DTX’s Zengence (pronounced like “vengeance”) is what video game fans might call a rail shooter. At… Read More

Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and… Read More

Washington and 41 state AGs sue social media giant Meta for its alleged harm of youth

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Tuesday that the state is suing Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, for… Read More

Instagram head Adam Mosseri stops in Seattle to discuss safety and protection for younger users

Adam Mosseri’s three boys — aged 3, 5 and 7 — are too young to use social media. But the… Read More

Analysis: Apple’s Vision Pro sets up a clash with Valve, Sony, Meta over future of VR/AR

Apple newly announced headset positions the company as a contender in the evolving field of virtual and augmented reality, and… Read More

Meta lawyer wants to build more public-private partnerships as he runs for Seattle City Council

Rob Saka, a University of Washington graduate, Air Force veteran and attorney who has worked for Microsoft and Meta, announced… Read More

Meta and Microsoft are ditching office space in the Seattle area

Meta and Microsoft are both giving up office space in the Seattle region amid the shift to hybrid work and… Read More

Electric airplanes, greenhouses, and sunrises in Seattle: Some of our favorite photos from 2022

Across Seattle and from Redmond all the way to Iceland, GeekWire had its eye — and cameras — on stories in… Read More

Oculus Studios acquires Camouflaj, the Seattle-area studio behind ‘Iron Man VR’

Bellevue, Wash.-based game developer Camouflaj has joined Meta’s Oculus Studios. Camouflaj, founded in 2012, is the studio behind 2013’s Republique… Read More

Judge rejects Facebook’s attempt to declare Washington state campaign ad law unconstitutional

A judge in Seattle sided with Washington state’s attorney general on Friday and rejected Facebook parent company Meta’s argument that… Read More

‘Gold standard’ or unconstitutional? Facebook and Wash. state AG spar over political ad disclosure law

Facebook parent company Meta and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson agree on this: the state’s campaign advertising disclosure law is… Read More

Podcast

The state of the tech economy: Takeaways from Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we play highlights and offer our thoughts on the recent earnings calls of Amazon,… Read More

Facebook user’s quest to recover hacked business account highlights lack of customer service

When Tiffany White had her Facebook accounts hacked and couldn’t log in, she lost a lot. The Seattle-area entrepreneur spent… Read More

Tech Moves: Meta engineering director lands at Seattle startup Mason

Brian Hook joined Seattle startup Mason as chief technology officer after nearly eight years at Meta. Hook was most recently… Read More

Univ. of Washington and Meta partner on program linking PhD students to AI mentors at tech giant

Meta has accepted a new friend request from the University of Washington. The tech giant is bolstering its relationship with… Read More

Podcast

‘My name is Reggie …’ Former Nintendo leader on his new book, and what’s next for games

One of the most memorable lines of the past two decades in video games was delivered not by a character… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Microsoft CVP Rish Tandon lands at Meta; Accolade hires HR exec; more

— Rish Tandon, former corporate vice president at Microsoft, joined Meta as vice president of engineering for remote presence. Tandon,… Read More

Rajeev Rajan, former engineering lead for Meta in Seattle, is joining Atlassian as CTO

— Rajeev Rajan, who most recently led engineering efforts in Seattle for Meta, is joining Atlassian in May as the company’s… Read More

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‘Second Life’ creator shares lessons learned from one of the world’s first metaverses

Philip Rosedale has spent a lot of time thinking about the “metaverse,” long before it became a buzzword in today’s tech… Read More

Super Bowl ad roundup: Big stars push a range of tech, from travel to phones to electric vehicles

The focus of a lot of the Super Bowl LVI ads released ahead of Sunday’s games seems to be the… Read More

Amazon market value soars $170B as Meta keeps sinking in aftermath of pivotal earnings reports

Amazon stock is up more than 12% in trading Friday morning after its fourth-quarter earnings report, adding more than $170… Read More

Will hybrid and remote work tank Seattle’s once red-hot office market? Not so fast, studies say

Fewer people working in the office, less need for office space? That seems like a logical conclusion to draw. But… Read More

Meta grabbing more space in Bellevue’s Spring District with lease of fifth office building

Looking to expand its already sizable stake in Bellevue, Wash., Facebook’s parent company Meta is making a move on another… Read More

Microsoft and Meta partner to integrate Teams and Workplace enterprise collaboration tools

Meta and Microsoft are teaming up. The company formerly known as Facebook is partnering with the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant… Read More

Facebook is now Meta: Social media giant rebrands to focus on the future amid criticism in the present

Facebook announced a name change on Thursday intended to bring together everything that it works on under a single brand… Read More

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquires Meta, promises free AI search tool for scientists

The multibillion-dollar Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced its first acquisition today: a startup called Meta that is developing an artificial intelligence… Read More