Renaming Facebook as Meta indicates a big bet on the metaverse, as well as an “escape hatch” from the issues and scrutiny Facebook has been facing. The entire industry is at the beginning of a big wave and Mark Zuckerberg has been building capacity for some years now. However, the key to Meta’s success will depend on whether and how fast customers adopt it to work, learn, play, build and live.

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• Facebook
• Meta
• Mark Zuckerberg
• Metaverse

October 22, 2021: Junk vs long-term happiness; Facebook by any other name; India crosses ‘a billion doses’ milestone; Re-imagine

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• Facebook
• Benedict Evans
• Covid-19 vaccination
• Srinivas Rao
• being extraordinary
• Mark Levine

October 12, 2021: Real journalism vs fake news; The collapse of Lebanon; Good teachers

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• Facebook
• fake news
• Chris Anderson
• Nobel Peace Prize
• Storytelling
• Lebanon crisis
• Dmitry Muratov
• Maria Ressa

March 16, 2021: Learnings from Facebook’s fantastic journey; A different approach to mental health; What to do about the mind chatter; How mobility killed freedom

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• Facebook
• Tata Trusts
• Ethan Kross
• mind chatter
• Mental Health
• Udaan
• Ram Charan
• Mark Zuckerberg

This Week in Disruptive Tech | September 9, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• Facebook
• predictive algorithms
• Covid-19 vaccine
• law enforcement
• Google
• Brain Computer Interface
• AI ethics
• coronavirus
• PUBG ban

August 22, 2020: What is real; Future of Big Tech; Making WFH succeed

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• psychosomatic pain
• Facebook
• Work From Home
• Henry Marsh
• Mark Johnson
• WFH culture
• Big Tech
• Prashant Parashar
• hate speech

This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 15, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• Facebook
• Artificial Intelligence
• COVID-19
• Jio
• Google
• Chinese investments in India
• Alibaba
• China Playbook
• Baidu
• FAANG
• and Tencent

January 07, 2020: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Oyo’s pitfalls on the fast track, He Jiankui and gene editing, Facebook’s efforts to build an operating system, micro-mobility, and Digital India's tech gaps

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• Oyo
• Facebook
• gene editing
• micro-mobility
• Digital India
• He Jiankui

How far can businesses push the power of platforms to sell new types of products? The past week offered some interesting pointers

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• Facebook
• Platforms and Publishers
• UberEats
• platform strategy
• Truecaller Pay

Your smartphone is the gateway for platform businesses to drive their hooks deep into your psyche and pockets, edge out traditional businesses, and reset markets. In doing so, they are becoming monopolies, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. What is fair play in this new world?

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• Zomato
• regulating technology
• Platforms
• monopolies
• Digital Economy
• Swiggy
• Ola
• eCommerce
• Facebook
• Netflix
• Apple
• Amazon
• platform strategy
• Uber
• platform responsibility
• regulating social media platforms
• Competition