{"id":923194,"date":"2025-04-17T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923194"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:41:30","slug":"zuckerberg-denies-meta-bought-rivals-to-conquer-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/17\/zuckerberg-denies-meta-bought-rivals-to-conquer-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg denies Meta bought rivals to conquer them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday denied in court that his company bought rival services Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize them, as his testimony in a landmark antitrust case came to a close.<\/p>\n<p>The case could see the Facebook owner forced to divest of the two apps, which have grown into global powerhouses since their buyout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday denied in court that his company bought rival services Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize them, as his testimony in a landmark antitrust case came to a close. The case could see the Facebook owner forced to divest of the two apps, which have grown into global powerhouses since their buyout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}