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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• Mark Zuckerberg
• Meta
• Metaverse
• Facebook

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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