Meta is testing a premium subscription on Instagram that offers access to exclusive features, TechCrunch reported Monday (March 30), citing an email from the company.By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and to the sharing of your information with our sponsor, if applicable, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions .Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. ...

Meta is now testing premium subscriptions on its social media app Instagram, two months after its parent company Meta confirmed it would be paywalling certain features on not only Instagram but also WhatsApp and Facebook.Instagram's core uses will remain free, but it'll enable more premium features like seeing who has watched your story multiple times, creating unlimited stories lists beyond just "close friends," spotlighting one story per week so more people see it, making a super heart reaction for storie ...

So let's start with the big red number, and that is Meta's terrible monthly performance. I believe the worst showing since about October 2022. What do you make of the different headwinds hitting Meta right now and that big fear around just how much they're spending on AI.Yeah. Look. I think, everyone has been questioning their CapEx spend.You know. This year, they're gonna spend $135,000,000,000, and they don't really have a model to show for that in terms of where frontier models are, you know, Gemini, Ant ...

A stock incentive plan can be a great motivator for executives, because if the goals are reached, it's a win-win for both management and investors. And Meta Platforms (META +2.06%) recently made headlines with a highly ambitious incentive plan that will see its top executives -- excluding Mark Zuckerberg -- max out their stock options if the company's valuation rises to more than $9 trillion by 2031. To put that into perspective, a $9 trillion market cap would be more than double what Nvidia, the world's mo ...

Meta has begun testing a premium subscription on Instagram in a few countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The subscription, called Instagram Plus, unlocks access to exclusive features. The move comes two months after Meta told TechCrunch that it was planning to test new subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Among the premium features on Instagram is the ability to view a Story without the poster seeing that you viewed it and the option to see how many people have rewatched ...

In this article, we will look at everything Jim Cramer said regarding his latest game plan as the oil-shock-driven sell-off continues. The host of Mad Money laid out his expectations for the coming week on Friday as he said: We gotta go to the game plan for next week to figure this one out. Now, these days, Mondays revolve entirely around the war and ratcheting up in tension. We know that our president said there would be an extension of a bombing pause, but there’s still hostilities, which to me means that ...

Over the last five weeks, Wall Street has reminded investors that stocks can move in both directions. Although record-closing highs for Wall Street's major stock indexes -- the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) -- have become commonplace since the 2022 bear market ended, pullbacks, corrections, and even bear markets are normal, healthy, and inevitable aspects of the investing cycle. Uncertainty surrounding the Iran war, wh ...

Shares of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) have fallen 30% from their high. Such declines are rare for the social media giant, occurring only a handful of times in the past 10 years. I must confess, I bought the dip hand over fist. The stock's tumble probably doesn't boil down to one thing; many Magnificent Seven stocks have stumbled from their highs. Investors may be concerned about the company's aggressive spending on artificial intelligence (AI). If that weren't enough, Meta just lost a court battle that ...

Montaka Global Investments, an investment management company, released its fourth-quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Montaka’s December 2025 investor letter explains that while global equity markets performed strongly in 2025, driven largely by artificial intelligence (AI) and a small number of high-performing technology stocks, the fund did not outperform during the year due to significant dispersion in stock returns across its portfolio. Some holdings generated str ...

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the Good Stocks to Buy Now. On March 25, Reuters reported that Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Meta lost a case in Los Angeles for neglecting the harmful impacts on young people in designing their social media. ​The verdict found both the companies liable to pay $6 million in damages, with Alphabet to pay $1.8 million and Meta liable for $4.2 million. Although the payable amount for the companies is minimal considering their market capitalization, the report noted t ...