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Happy Rose Day 2022: Express your love with a digital Rose Day greetingRose Day marks the beginning of Valentine Week. Celebrated every year on February 7, Rose Day is when people express their feelings with the help of this beautiful flower. Roses have been considered a symbol of love since time immemorial. While red roses stand for romantic love, yellow roses mean friendship and white roses symbolise peace and affection. On Rose Day, people present roses to their near and dear ones - not just their partners but also their friends, parents and so on. But if you are not there to wish your loved ones in person, you can send them a digital Rose Day greeting to show how much they mean to you. Here are some Rose Day wishes, SMS, quotes, images and WhatsApp messages to send to your friends, family and significant other on Rose Day:Happy Rose Day to the most special person in my lifeYour love is the sweet fragrance of roses that reminds me of all the lovely moments we spent together.  » Read More

WEBSITE OF THE YEARAPP OF THE YEARWorld7 Feb, 2022 02:31 AM3 minutes to readFacebook gently mocks the New Zilund accent in its first Metaverse ad. Video / MetaMeta has warned it could shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if it is not able to transfer data to American servers.The parent company of Facebook made the declaration in its annual report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.The tech giant blamed evolving laws and regulations from European regulators, courts and legislative bodies — that have increasingly scrutinised the social media company — and which Meta said was impacting its "critical operations".In particular Meta cited a 2020 decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the so-called "Privacy Shield".That agreement allowed for a framework for data transfers from the EU to the US and was invalidated by the CJEU.The EU has strict data protection requirements regarding the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US.  » Read More

ST. LOUIS — Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Saturday waded into the controversy over the release of a domestic assault suspect by St. Louis police last month, accusing Mayor Tishaura O. Jones of insulting the alleged victim in an exchange on social media.Schmitt retweeted a KSDK (Channel 5) online article on the sharply worded Facebook exchange, saying Jones is “a national embarrassment. Insulting victims. Defunding the police. Unbelievable.” “Learn how government works then you can talk. #Gurlbye” The St. Louis Mayor is a national embarrassment. Insulting victims. Defunding the police. Unbelievable. https://t.co/ugXTBSlnif — Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) February 5, 2022 Nick Dunne, Jones’ spokesman, didn’t comment Saturday on Schmitt’s political attack.But he said the mayor in the Facebook exchange “made it clear that she had no involvement in the decision” to release Mac Payne, who was charged later the same day by prosecutors with two felony counts of domestic assault.Moreover, Dunne noted that the mayor had expressed concern to the woman for what had happened to her.  » Read More

Facebook's  (FB) - Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report bet is not paying off. For the moment. We will probably have to wait a little longer to pass final judgment.But at a time when all companies, small, medium and multinational, are throwing themselves headlong into the metaverse, this new virtual world that the gurus and big names in tech are selling us, the performance of Facebook's metaverse division should challenge more than one. The company, which renamed itself Meta in October in order to put many controversies behind it, on Wednesday released for the first time earnings for its metaverse projects.Reality Labs, which includes augmented- and virtual-reality-related consumer hardware, software and content, is a sink for the company founded and led by Mark Zuckerberg.This division lost $10.2 billion in 2021, more than double the operating losses recorded in 2020 - $4.62 billion. In 2019, the operating loss was $4.5 billion.Big Investments AheadInvestors should expect losses in the coming months to continue to widen as in the fourth quarter the division lost $3.3 billion,  » Read More

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TikTok, the COVID-19 pandemic and mobile data costs in India all helped draw people away from Facebook at an unprecedented rate last quarter. The big question is when will it be Instagram’s turn? One forecaster, Insider Intelligence, does not expect Meta Platforms Inc’s Instagram social media service to lose users in the next three years. But its November estimates show Instagram’s growth in monthly users will fall to 5.8 per cent this year and 3.1 per cent by 2025 from 16.5 per cent last year.Instagram, which the tech giant acquired in 2012 for $1 billion, has been viewed as an antidote to slowing growth at Facebook, with revenue from ads on Instagram increasingly crucial to Meta.The company is putting those funds toward building out a new business selling virtual-reality goggles and related metaverse technologies. A decline in Instagram users and inability to raise ad prices could halt Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions. Story continues below advertisement Fewer people checked their Facebook every day per quarter than they did the year before for the first time ever during the last three months of 2021,  » Read More

Meta Platforms went down in history on Thursday for the biggest one-day crash in the stock market. After the Facebook owner reported missed quarterly earnings and a slowly shrinking user base on Wednesday, shares have declined some 26%. The company’s stock has also lost about $230 billion in market value since Wednesday’s close, which stands as the biggest wipeout in market value for any U.S. company. The markets overall have been volatile in the last few weeks, and the tech sector in particular saw some dips across the board this last month. Twitter, Snap and Pinterest have all been trading lower, and Meta was trading at $237.76 when the market closed on Thursday. Meta’s market cap was previously at around $900 billion. Facebook parent company Meta met revenue expectations but missed EPS projections in its Q4 earnings on Wednesday. The social giant’s quarterly revenue came in at $33.67 billion, meeting analyst expectations of $33.41 billion. The company, which rebranded as Meta last October, reported a revenue of $29 billion last quarter,  » Read More

The Citadel is condemning a fake news release posted in an alumni Facebook group that made racist comments falsely attributed to the historic military college's administrators. The fake news release mimicked the look of the school's own press statements, using The Citadel's logo with the headline "Achieving Racial Equity: The Citadel to install African-American Water Fountain in the lobby of Mark Clark Hall." It included a photo, underneath the headline, of two water fountains, with a sign over one reading "African-American Cadets Only," emblematic of Jim Crow-era policies levied against Black Americans. Read Next: ISIS Leader Detonated Suicide Bomb Killing Family as Troops Closed In, US Military Says The post was shared in "The Citadel 'Old Corps'" alumni group, which is open only to cadets who graduated from the historic military college in Charleston, South Carolina, prior to 2000. Promoting a historical inaccuracy, the group says that moderators "will not tolerate the glorification of the hypocritical northern aggression that started the Civil War." Immediately, the post drew strong criticism from other alumni and was deleted.  » Read More

If you own stocks, bad news, you probably just lost money. Social networking giant Meta, better known as Facebook, is off more than 20% in after-hours trading. And Spotify, music streaming impressario and podcasting middleweight, is off more than 15% after the close of trading today. Both sharp declines come in the wake of underwhelming results from PayPal, which also saw its shares fall, and pretty good results from Alphabet. Alphabet’s strong Q4 performance is starting to look more like an outlier than median-indicator. Let’s talk Meta, and then Shopify, and parse out just what is going on. Meta’s expensive quarter and slack guidance In the fourth quarter, Facebook generated revenues of $33.67 billion, leading to operating income of $12.59 billion, and net income of $10.29 billion. The company also posted earnings per share of $3.67. How did those figures compare to analyst expectations? Per Yahoo Finance averages, analysts had expected the company to post $33.41 billion in revenue, and earnings per share of $3.84 billion.  » Read More

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said user additions stalled in the fourth quarter and gave a disappointing forecast for the current period, raising concerns about the company’s future growth. Its shares plunged as much as 24% in extended trading.Facebook reported 2.91 billion monthly users in the fourth quarter, representing no growth from the third quarter. The social network is feeling the effects of increased competition for users’ time and a shift in interest to video, where advertising isn’t as lucrative.Meta said revenue in the current quarter would be $27 billion to $29 billion, compared with analysts’ average estimate of $30.25 billion.The misses come at a crucial juncture for the Menlo Park, Calif., company, which is fighting regulatory battles on multiple fronts and also trying to justify a costly shift in corporate strategy to bet on the so-called metaverse, the vision for an immersive internet lately championed by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. For years, it seemed like Facebook would never stop growing. Now young users — the future consumers of its advertising — are choosing platforms such as TikTok and YouTube for entertainment and community instead.  » Read More