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June 11, 2014
Facebook is branching out from its flagship “blue app” to become a broad-based technology company both in its products and behind the scenes.To serve billions more people on top of its current 3 billion users, Facebook will have to become “one of the greatest technology companies in the world,” said Jay Parikh, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure engineering, at the MIT Technology Review Digital Summit in San Francisco.That includes Facebook building its own data-center infrastructure, as it has done since 2010, and efforts such as Internet.org to bring people in developing countries online. But the company is also offering a wider range of applications and services to meet its users’ needs at different times and places, Parikh said. It’s already branched out from its main social-networking service to Instagram and the stand-alone Messenger app and will launch WhatsApp after completing its US$19 billion acquisition. But Facebook is also developing future apps, some of them through Facebook Creative Labs, an initiative that so far has spawned the Paper news app for iPhones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2362461/more-apps-coming-from-an-expanding-facebook.html#tk.rss_all
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