Facebooks new secret website revealed New website will compete with professional social networks LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft Facebook at Work will allow users to keep personal profile separate from work profile, the Financial Times reported. (Getty Images) Facebook Inc. is secretly working on a new website called ‘Facebook at Work’ that would allow users to keep their personal profile separate from their work profile, the Financial Times reported. The new website, that will look very much like Facebook, will compete with professional social network LinkedIn Corp , Google Inc, and Microsoft Corp, the newspaper said. Facebooks new site will allow users to chat with colleagues, connect with professional contacts and collaborate over documents, the newspaper reported, citing unidentified sources. Facebook was not available for comment outside regular US business hours. Facebook employees have long used the site in their daily work and the social networking site is now testing it with companies, the newspaper said. Facebook last month reported its quarterly profit nearly doubled to $802 million (640 million euros) but saw its stock pounded after outlining a plan to invest heavily in the future instead of revelling in short-term riches. We are going to continue preparing for the future by investing aggressively, connecting everyone, understanding the world, and building the next-generation in computing platforms, Facebook founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg said then. We have a long journey ahead, he said. Facebook, which has 1.35 billion monthly active users worldwide, was set up in 2004 by Zuckerberg with fellow students at Harvard University who wanted to set it up as a college networking site. The site has been seeking to broaden its offerings, unveiling an application that lets people chat anonymously in virtual rooms, evoking the chat rooms from the early days of the Internet. It is also testing a feature that lets users of the leading social network make purchases by simply pressing an on-screen Buy button. Facebook completed its multibillion-dollar deal for mobile messaging application WhatsApp last month.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:29:45 +0000
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