Facebook is unveiling a new Android product Thursday, today - a move that comes as a fast-growing number of its 1.06 billion users access it on smartphones and tablet computers.
Speculations about the Thursday's event at the company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, are centered on a mobile phone, made by HTC Corp., that deeply integrates Facebook into the Android operating system. The move comes as Facebook works to evolve from its Web-based roots to a "mobile-first" company, as its mantra goes.
"What Facebook wants is to put itself at the front of the Android user experience for as many Facebook users as possible and make Facebook more elemental to their customers' experience," said Forrester analyst Charles Golvin.
It may be added that Facebook's rival, Google Inc., makes the Android software that Facebook and HTC would be using under the widely speculated scenario. Google makes the software available on an open-source basis, meaning others including rivals are free to adapt it to their needs. Amazon.com Inc. does just that in modifying Android to run its Kindle tablet computers.
Read more about it at: Huff Post / Tech
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