"We've been busy building stuff for the past six months or so." Today is the start of "launching season." Zuckerberg now sharing a story about his neighbor telling him, "I heard you guys are launching something on the radio today! I hope it's video chat! I want to video chat with my grandson!"ġ0:17 a.m. PT (Josh Lowensohn): "Thanks for coming out today," Zuckerberg says. PT (Josh Lowensohn): And we're starting everyone. Whatever it is comes from a 40-person development group from the company's offices in downtown Seattle.Īs usual, we'll be using Cover it Live to bring you updates and photos from the event. More recently there's even been talk of video chat service powered by Skype, which Microsoft (a Facebook investor) recently paid $8.5 billion for in a deal back in May.Ĭo-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Reuters last week that the company was planning to "launch something awesome" at the event. So far there have been murmurs of the company cooking up a number of products, from tablet apps, to new photo-sharing and music-listening services. The partnership will also enable users to import their news feed, send instant messages, comment, and "like" all within Skype.įacebook is holding another one of its news briefings Wednesday and we'll there to bring you the news, live from the company's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters. PT: The social network has tapped Skype for video chat. You can also read our stories about the partnership between Facebook and Skype and Facebook introducing group chats. For those of you who just want the basic updates, we've posted an edited transcript below.
Replaying the event will give you all the live updates along with commentary from our readers and CNET reporters. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces a partnership with Skype today at his company's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.Įditor's note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component at the end of this post.
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