Reuters - Η Facebook Inc is reportedly developing its own video chat application, which is known internally as the company Slingshot, after the failed attempt to acquire the mobile messaging service Snapchat, reported the Financial Times last Sunday.
Το Facebοok εργάζεται εδώ και αρκετούς μήνες για την ανάπτυξη μιας εφαρμογής βίντεο-chat, η οποία θα επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να στέλνουν σύντομα μηνύματα βίντεο χρησιμοποιώντας μια οθόνη αφής, ανέφερε η FT, επικαλούμενη people who are familiar with the company's designs.
The Slingshot application could be released this month, FT said, while pointing out that Facebok could eventually decide not to proceed with the release of the application.
Ο επικεφαλής του Facebοok, Mark Zuckerberg έχει την εποπτεία του “άκρως privacyy” project after the social networking company was unable to acquire his Snapchat app with the $3.000.000.000 offer he made to its creators.
Snapchat is very popular among adolescents, and allows users to send pictures that automatically disappear after a few seconds.