Latest IT News: - Facebook Inc is developing its own video -chat
app, is known as internal Slingshot, after the failed attempt to acquire mobile
messaging startup Snapchat, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Facebook has been working for several months on
the planned video -chat app, which allows users to send short video messages
using a touchscreen , the FT reported, citing people familiar with the plans .
Slingshot could begin this month; the newspaper
reported a source as saying, while pointing out that Facebook could ultimately
decide not to proceed with the launch of the app.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has oversight of
"top secret” plan after the social networking company was unable to win
the creators of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, with $ 3 billion
takeover offer late last year, FT.
Snapchat, popular among teenagers, allows
Smartphone users to send pictures automatically disappear after a few seconds.