Facebook brewing something awesome in Seattle
On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook Seattle the company plans to launch something awesome next week, according to a Reuters report published Thursday. The new product was developed at Facebooks Seattle office, he said. Facebook Seattle, which opened in March and currently has around 40 employees, is the companys only engineering outfit outside of its Silicon Valley headquarters.
As of press time, Facebooks public relations team has not responded to GigaOMs request for comment on the impending launch.
The new product could well be an iPad app, something that has been notably absent from Facebooks portfolio for some time now. According to reports published earlier this month, Facebook has been readying an iPad app for over a year and was in the final stages of testing as of mid-June. Meanwhile, the company is also understood to be building an HTML5-based platform to serve a mobile version of its site through the web, rather than through a native app interface.
One thing is certain: Between all the IPOs, blockbuster fundraising events, and major product launches, it has been a very busy summer for the tech industry. And with Facebook apparently planning to kick off July in awesome fashion, it looks like 2011 may not have one of those traditional summer slumps at all.
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