New name before the end of the month - Facebook before fundamental change

The social media platform Facebook is apparently supposed to get a new name before the end of the month.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg will probably explain the exact background at the end of October.

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- The well-known social media platform Facebook is apparently to be given a new name - before the end of the month.

This is reported by the US technology portal

, citing inside information.

On October 28, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will address the new name of the portal at the company's annual Connect conference.

However, it is possible that the new name will be announced earlier.

According to

, with the name change, the company wants to focus more on the “metaverse” - that is, the influence and possibilities of users within the Facebook world.

More than 10,000 Facebook employees are said to be busy developing the hardware for so-called AR glasses, which Zuckerberg will soon consider ubiquitous.

Change of name on Facebook: Zuckerberg wants to build Metaversum

The name change is also apparently a sign of the enormous ambition of the technology giant, which wants to be more than a pure company for social media such as Facebook, Instagram * and WhatsApp *. A company spokesman made

a statement

following a request from

.

That Zuckerberg is serious about his vision of merging the real and virtual world is not only shown by the creation of the Metaverse team last summer.

Just recently, the company around Zuckerberg announced that it wanted to create up to 10,000 new jobs in Europe over the next five years in order to realize this vision.

Facebook manager Nick Clegg announced this in a blog post.

Europe is extremely important for Facebook, emphasized Facebook manager Clegg.

The EU has many assets that make it a great place to invest in technology companies.

Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook were hit by a total failure.

The services are now working again.

Mark Zuckerberg apologized for this.

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