Past week, Google took acquisition of the Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion,And now Google will make smartphones. And now Reports says that Facebook is also planning to make its own smart phone.
The New York Times Report says
Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing their employment or relationships with Facebook.
The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said.
In A Interview A employee of Facebook told that “Mark is worried that if he doesn’t create a mobile phone in the near future then Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms.”
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