Zukerberg Says Facebook Is Planning Something Big Next Week: iPad App?

Reuters is reporting that Facebook is set to launch a major new feature next week:

Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook's Seattle office on Wednesday that the company planned to "launch something awesome" next week.

He said the project had been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters.

No-one at Facebook is saying exactly what it is, but here are two likely bets.

Facebook has already said it's at last planning an app specially developed for the iPad.  At the moment, iPad users have to make do with a zoomed-in iPhone app. So there's bet number one.

Number two is a photo-sharing app for the iPhone: think Instagram tied in with existing Facebook services.

Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network with more than 500 million users, is increasingly challenging established online companies like Google Inc and Yahoo Inc for consumers' time online and for advertising dollars. According to the company, people that use Facebook on mobile devices are twice as active on the service than users on PCs.

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