Company profile — Meta: history, ownership, strategy and current technology portfolio
Meta’s 2026 business combines Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, AI and hardware, with advertising funding long-horizon bets in glasses and VR.
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From a Harvard social network to AI and wearables: how Facebook became Meta
Facebook launched in 2004 as a university social network. Acquisitions such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus broadened the company before Facebook Inc. became Meta Platforms in 2021.
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