Meta's plans to push into the metaverse have received a setback in the form of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit. The FTC announced Wednesday it is seeking to block Meta from acquiring a ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of the metaverse has rarely looked farther away. The Facebook founder is finalizing significant budget cuts to Meta’s years-long project to create virtual worlds that users can ...

The start of 2026 delivered the final nail in the coffin for the metaverse, the digital world once hailed by Mark Zuckerberg as the future of human interaction. After putting all his eggs in this one ...

Meta has officially set a date for the end of its virtual reality metaverse experiment. Horizon Worlds, the social VR platform that sat at the center of Mark Zuckerberg's 2021 bet on the metaverse, ...

I always wondered how Facebook let the metaverse happen — now I understand ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for ...

Since reporting its Q3 2025 earnings in late October, Magnificent Seven stock Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has been in a rut. Shares fell by more than 11% on Oct. 30 in reaction to those results, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that the future of Facebook would be the metaverse. Based in virtual reality, it would be an immersive digital world where people could work, ...

Is the "year of efficiency" Mark Zuckerberg back at Meta Platforms ? Shares of the social media giant rallied more than 5% to $676 each at Thursday's highs after Bloomberg reported that Zuckerberg is ...

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a plan to completely reinvent his company - and revolutionise the internet. He was so serious, he even renamed his business to tally with his vision. The idea of the ...