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Facebook introduces mobile deals
By admin | November 7, 2010
Facebook is looking to add it offers mobile users, the service, says Zuckerberg.
Facebook has announced several new programs to drive mobile social network service.
The company announced a new “Handles” feature that allows third-party companies to provide the basis of a wide range of users, their locations and via a mobile phone.
Property is based on Facebook’s ‘ Places ‘ feature, available only in the United States, which allows users to send their location with the deals. when the user has determined their location, retailers, which are close to the end user may send the user’s mobile handset deals and special offers.
Facebook has signed up so far, 22 retailers, including H & M, Starbucks, to train and the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. One of the first period for the submission of tenders for clothes retailer gap, which offers a free pair of jeans first 10 000 users that their local gap-store using the deals in.
The company also stated that it opens up to Facebook in the places API so that third-party developers to integrate it with other location-based applications; and the single sign-on access to other applications by using Facebook credentials.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, Facebook Mobile, said that the number of users has gone from 65 million for the construction of the 200 million in the previous 12 months, and that the mobile space offers new opportunities for social networking.
“What we have seen, in principle, take or the product range is the social interaction, so take all and it is much more to the accomplishment of the butterfly is it to grow virally and remake the entire industry is a large region. Mobile, expansion and social apps is equal to. When you connect them, it makes a new company to be built fantastic opportunities and to interfere with the industry to get,” he said.
Zuckerberg also rejected that Facebook will launch its own mobile handset on an ongoing basis, according to some rumours: “our aim is not to sell anything physical. our goal is to make so that all may be a social rather silly of us should go in the strategy, which focused on the sale of a small number of phones and alienating all partners that we have more to deal with social issues, with the aim of these places after risk.”
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