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Here are the games that were announced at the Meta Quest Gaming Showcase

Meta might want us to do everything in VR, from work meetings to exercising, but we often forget that playing video games is actually a pretty legit application of this technology. So, Meta is investi

Metaverses grapple with Meta versus Apple

Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about Apple and crypto. This week, we’re talking about Apple clashing with Meta over their metaverse taxes. After sending o

Facebook VR exec Hugo Barra is leaving

Four years after joining as Facebook’s first VP of VR, ex-Xiaomi exec Hugo Barra has left the company, he said in a social media post Tuesday. Barra led Facebook’s VR efforts during a part

Facebook to block new political ads 1 week before Nov 3, adds more tools and rules for fair elections

We’re now 61 days away from the U.S. presidential election, and Facebook is once more ramping up its efforts to level the playing field and attempt to keep its platform from being manipulated to

Equity Monday: YC Demo Day, two funding rounds and where’s Palantir’s S-1?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big

Crunch Report | Facebook Made Us All Dead

Facebook has a bug and has switched their profiles to being memorialized, Mark Zuckerberg affirms that Facebook didn't affect election and Singles' Day breaks shopping records. All this on Crunch Repo

WhatsApp For Android Update Lets Users Pay For Their Friends’ Subscriptions

Today WhatsApp, Facebook's new <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/facebooks-19-billion-whatsapp-acquisition-contextualized/">$19 billion messaging darling</a>, has <a target="_blank" href="htt