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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• Metaverse
• Facebook
• Meta
• Mark Zuckerberg

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

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

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• Storytelling
• Lebanon crisis
• Facebook
• Chris Anderson
• Nobel Peace Prize
• Dmitry Muratov
• fake news
• 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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• Mental Health
• Mark Zuckerberg
• Facebook
• Udaan
• Ethan Kross
• Tata Trusts
• mind chatter
• Ram Charan

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

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

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

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

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

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