Facebook's New Program - FbStart

500 to 800 companies that have applied has been accepted by Facebook to a program called FbStart. This program helps developers in accessing services like app testing and user research. Companies are only eligible if their apps are already in Apple or Google's app stores.

These are some of Facebook's partners who helped in creating this program:

This program is an effort made by Facebook to try and strengthen the mobile app market which according to research firm Gartner might be worth 77 billion dollars in the year 2017! 

Besides that, Facebook also wants to ensure that the developers will be able to recognize its products, its functions which allows users to log into an app and share its contents from the app on the social network.

                           

Reference:

Fleisher, L. 2014. With FbStart, Facebook Hands Out Goodies to Mobile App Makers. Retrieved from:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/01/with-fbstart-facebook-hands-out-goodies-to-mobile-app-makers/

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