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Facebook unveils the first app store

This store will be launched within the next few weeks, which is a sheet of pressure to oust the other social networks, and strengthening the status of Facebook.

Social networking site months displaced worldwide Facebook unveiled the first its own app store called “App Center”, the move comes in the wake of slowing revenue growth.

This store is a store in itself, but it would be a mixed one for Web browsers, to encourage the growth of Facebook through related services on the Internet, as those applications that require the Facebook platform to log in, such as “Pinterest” and “Spotify”.

Besides Web browsers store applications includes operating systems known as both “or” Android “, according to the site,

Facebook engineer Aaron Paradis “, that the site smarter than to enter into competition with popular operating systems, but this store as a platform integrating Facebook with those systems to attract more users, which now number more than 900 million users, will prepare a list of portable applications for both IOS and Android, rather than sell, will direct users to complete the purchase of each store for download.

Facebook shop also offers a wonderful opportunity for developers, allowing them to publish and sell their applications and their users across the site for finance charges will be determined by the developers themselves, by selling Web applications dependent on the technical “HTML5” versus 30 percent of profits. Besides the paid applications will also store free apps.

This store will be launched within the next few weeks, which is a sheet of pressure to oust the other social networks, and strengthening the status of Facebook.