Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes as Facebook, a social networking website that began as a Harvard-only service before opening to the public. It grew into one of the largest social media and digital advertising companies in the world, expanding through the acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, and renamed itself Meta Platforms in 2021 to reflect a strategic push into virtual and augmented reality platforms it calls the metaverse.
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Company TypeSocial media and technology conglomerate 1 Founded Year HeadquartersMenlo Park, California, U.S. 1 Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Facebook is owned and operated by Meta Platforms, Inc.
The company that went public in this 2012 IPO was Facebook, Inc., which renamed itself Meta Platforms, Inc. in 2021; same legal entity.
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Instagram is owned and operated by Meta Platforms, Inc.
WhatsApp is owned and operated by Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta), headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an American multinational technology company and is one of the Big Tech companies.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta), headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an American multinational technology company and is one of the Big Tech companies.
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