Looking to show itself as a force in mobile, Facebook touts the amount of traffic it is sending to apps as well as the number of top-grossing apps that tie in to the social network.
A Digitimes report reiterates what we said last year, namely that Facebook is working on an Android-based phone platform, with Taiwan’s HTC building the hardware.
The company mentions the word mobile more than 120 times in its filing to go public, noting that despite a huge mobile presence, it gets very little money from that part of its business.
Buffy could be as much as 18 months from hitting the market — an eternity in tech time. By then, will there still be a market for a more social smartphone?