Facebook
want to focus on acquiring and owning the big firms and adding the
next billion users to its social network targeting on consumers in
emerging markets and the mobile devices that many of them will use as
their primary way of being online.
Today
Facebook acquired Pryte, a small company based out of Helsinki ,
Finland that lets app makers and carriers sell mobile data in low
priced packages based on the usage of an app.
Facebook
already working on internet access more affordable for the masses.
The work which Facebook started years back is going on good progress.
As
per the Reuters Story the deal still not disclosed first broke the
news, had not officially launched, although it has a fully
functioning website, and according to the note the Pryte team had
posted on the site confirming the deal, it had already been “enabling
partnerships between app and content providers, and mobile
operators.”
We
don’t know how much of Pryte’s service will be rolled into
Facebook’s existing offerings — the Reuters story makes it sound
a bit like an acqui-hire — but in any case this is also a sign of
how Facebook is looking for more technology and people that can help
it forge better relationships with carriers.
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