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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Facebook is now Meta; Apple warns of supply constraints; Lightspeed to raise $5.5 bln; a chat with Gramophone’s CEO Tauseef Khan
Description: Facebook has rebranded itself as Meta. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the future of the business being built increasingly around the virtual world of metaverse that the company is investing heavily into. Zuckerberg was widely anticipated to reveal the new name at the company’s annual Connect event. Meta will now be the parent company of businesses that comprise the family of apps including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and other services such as the Facebook Reality Labs, which includes the metaverse effort. The name change also follows a series of revelations about the undesirable impact of Facebook—with its clos...