February 11, 2025

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Imagination at work

Nick Clegg casts doubt on Facebook’s Meta relaunch in bizarre video

Separately, shares in a Canadian supplies business surged after hasty investors evidently bewildered it with Mr Zuckerberg’s newly rebranded Meta.

Meta Products, which is outlined on New York’s Nasdaq, soared by virtually a quarter in after-hours investing on Thursday ahead of providing up most of these gains.

The business specialises in “smart materials” and photonics, the science of gentle waves that powers everything from barcode scanners to smartphones and broadband cables. 

It has previously attained acceptance as a so-named “meme” stock amongst retail investors utilizing Reddit and social media to explore investing.

It is just the most current circumstance of mistaken id as traders rush to pile into technology stocks.

Traders sent shares in an additional Canadian business, Zoom Systems, soaring by 80pc when they seemingly mistook it for movie conferencing business Zoom Online video Communications two yrs ago.

They also piled into Signal Progress, sending the Texas-centered health care technology firm’s shares rocketing additional than 500pc larger, after Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted the terms “use Signal”. He was referring to the protected messaging app Signal, operate by the not-for-earnings Signal Technological know-how Basis. 

In a nod to the evident confusion with Fb, George Palikaras, chief government of Meta Products, tweeted: