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Facebook has an Achilles heel and scrappy startups are kicking it repeatedly.
The One Startup That Keeps Facebook Awake At Night
Facebook's Post PC-World is Just Beginning
Facebook’s initial s-1 filing came out with a series of interesting facts, figures and details — such as its approach to China — and, with the company continuing to update the documentation as necessary, so more tidbits are coming to the surface.
This is the first in a series of posts this week about the Facebook phone. After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to build a smartphone that has the social network integrated at the core of its being. Code-named “Buffy,” after the television vampire slayer, the phone is planned to run on a modified version of Android that Facebook has tweaked heavily to deeply integrate its services, as well as to support HTML5 as a platform for applications, according to sources familiar with the project.
The Facebook Phone is Real, and Its Name is Buffy - Liz Gannes and Ina Fried - Mobile - AllThingsD
Facebook’s future is mobile — Tech News and Analysis
While many of us still access Facebook through our web browsers, the social network is increasingly becoming a mobile powerhouse.
Facebook Rolls Out Major, Sweeping Privacy Changes
Facebook is making a sweeping set of changes to its privacy and sharing policies that will give users much more control over the information they share and who they share it with.
Facebook Launches Standalone iPhone/Android Messenger App (And It’s Beluga)
Back in February Facebook acquired Beluga , a hot group messaging startup well known for having a killer 3-person team. At the time, fellow TC writer MG Siegler wondered aloud whether Facebook would release a standalone messaging app (which is what Beluga is), or if it had plans to work the technology and team into its recently-revamped Messages product, which it unveiled last fall.
Facebook gets into texting game with Facebook Messenger
Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online.The hullabaloo around Facebook’s upcoming mobile products in the past week was probably bigger than the news itself.
What You Need to Know About Facebook and Mobile - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD
Facebook Readies an iPad App, Finally - NYTimes.com
Facebook had its application for the iPhone ready right when the Apple App Store opened in July 2008. But more than a year after the iPad went on sale, there is still no official Facebook app for it.Yes, Despite All The HTML5 Talk (And Action), Facebook Is Finally Doing An iPad App
The leaking of Facebook continues. Following our stories yesterday about their new Photos mobile app and “ Project Spartan ” (a new mobile app platform), Nick Bilton of The New York Times reports that Facebook will soon release an iPad app. Yes, finally .
MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple.
Exposed: Facebook’s Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing)
Facebook is about to lunch a doozy of a photo sharing app for iOS, according to TechCrunch .