Meta Platforms

Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American social media an technology company based in Menlo Park, Californie. It wis foondit bi Mark Zuckerberg, alang with fellae Harvard College students an roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz an Chris Hughes, originally as TheFacebook.com—today's Facebook, popular global social netwarkin wabsteid. It is considered ane o the Big Four technology companies alang with Amazon, Apple, an Google. Meta is ane o the warld's maist valuable companies.

This airticle is aboot the technology company. For their social media wabsteid, see Facebook.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Umwhile cried	TheFacebook, Inc. (2004)[1][2] Facebook, Inc. (2005–2021)
Teep	Public
Treddit as	NASDAQ: FB (Class A) NASDAQ-100 component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
Industrie	Social media Advertising
Foondit	Februar 4, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-02-04) in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Foonders	Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes
Heidquarters	1 Hacker Way (aka 1601 Willow Road), Menlo Park, Californie, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key fowk	Mark Zuckerberg (Chairman, CEO, Controllin Sharehauder) Sheryl Sandberg (COO) David Wehner (CFO) Mike Schroepfer (CTO)
Products	Facebook Instagram Messenger WhatsApp Watch Portal Oculus Calibra
Revenue	US$85.97 billion (2020)
Operatin income	US$32.67 billion (2020)
Net income	US$29.15 billion (2020)
Tot assets	US$159.32 billion (2020)
Tot equity	US$128.29 billion (2020)
Nummer o employees	68,177 (30 September 2021)
Wabsteid	about.fb.com
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Meta affers ither products an services. It acquired Instagram, WhatsApp, an Oculus, an independently developit Facebook Messenger, Facebook Watch, an Facebook Portal.