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A lawsuit filed against Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, centers on whether the social media giant is doing enough to protect the safety of children. What Happened: Unredacted documents from a lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Department of...

Meta Platforms Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:META) Facebook application and Messenger may get a few updates, which might make your experience on the platform more convenient.  What Happened: Social media expert Ahmed Ghanem took to Twitter to share a new feature that Facebook is testing to add to the...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ: META) Facebook Messenger now allows users to interact with friends and family through in-action avatars.  What Happened: On Friday, social media consultant Matt Navarra took to Twitter to share a few screenshots of a new Messenger feature that enables users...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) announced a slew of new features to Messenger to mark the tenth anniversary of its first messaging app. What Happened: Facebook Messenger will have ten new product features, with most of them starting to roll out Wednesday, the company said. The social...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) will host a virtual event for developers in June that could show off new updates and products. What Happened: Facebook will host developers at a single-day, virtual-only conference on June 2, TechCrunch reports. The event is called “F8 Refresh” and it will...

Capitalizing on the growth of video chat during the pandemic, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has taken its Messenger Rooms live worldwide. What Happened Facebook has made its drop-in video chat Messenger Rooms available globally. The service allows up to 50 participants to video conference without...

Benzinga is covering every angle of how the coronavirus affects the financial world. For daily updates, sign up for our coronavirus newsletter. Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) apps are experiencing a surge in user activity in pandemic hit countries, and the social media giant says maintaining...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) announced a new logo Monday to differentiate the parent company of services from the original app that shares its name. The new concept is all caps and color-adaptive to suit whichever subsidiary is open. “The new company branding is designed to help us better...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) dropped 20 percent Thursday following its second-quarter earnings call Wednesday. Earnings figures were mixed, with a beat on EPS and miss on sales, but the key figures were Facebook’s daily and monthly active users. Both grew by 11 percent globally, just...

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD)’s chatbot on the Facebook Messenger platform went from idea to commercial product in less than two months. Kahina Van Dyke, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB)’s global head of financial services, told the audience Tuesday at the 2018 Benzinga...

The text message turned 25 Sunday, and in its quarter century of life, the medium has proven a critical and influential force, particularly on Wall Street. Since Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NASDAQ: VOD) carried that first text — a GIF-less, emoji-less “Merry Christmas” from the PC...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) stock dropped 2.6 percent on Thursday after the company reported a third-quarter earnings beat that failed to wow the market. A number of Wall Street analysts weighed in on Facebook following the report. Here’s a rundown of what they had to say. Voices From The...

UBS raised its price target for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) Thursday after the social media platform reported first-quarter results that analyst Eric J. Sheridan called "solid." Facebook reported a Q1 EPS of $1.04 after the close Wednesday, missing estimates by $0.08; sales of $8.032...

Commenting on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s F8 Annual Developer Conference, Pacific Crest Securities, a unit of KeyBanc Capital Markets, said the company is focusing on other realities. Realities Sinking In Analysts Andy Hargreaves, Evan Wingren and Tyler Parker noted that the keynote focused on...

More than half of Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)’s daily users are between 13 and 24, and that makes the social platform a mandatory ad buy for many brands, according to William Blair. The firm initiated the parent company of the Snapchat app with an Outperform on Monday, joining other firms who...