Zuckerberg Plans to Cut Metaverse Group's Budget Up to 30%

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-Caroline Hyde, Bloomberg Tech co-anchor, discusses Meta Platform's Mark Zuckerberg expected to cut resources for building the metaverse, which he once framed as the future of the company. Executives are considering potential budget cuts as high as 30% for the metaverse group next year, which could include layoffs as early as January.

-Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence Technology Analyst, discusses Salesforce’s outlook for current remaining performance obligation growth still suggests a sequential deceleration, likely on tepid enterprise IT spending,” and “we expect this to pressure the company over the next 6-12 months. However, successful adoption of Agentforce and Data 360 makes us optimistic that these two products can become a larger sales driver from 2H26 onward.

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