The big rumor today, broken by Jason Kincaid over at Techcrunch, is that Facebook will be announcing its own email client on Monday, adding a little context to the battle over email contacts that broke out this week between Google and Facebook.
It appears as though Facebook will build out its message service Read More
Last week Google blocked Facebook from automatically importing user email contacts.
The move was seen as payback: Google’s new terms of service declared they would only share contact data with companies that returned the favor.
Facebook didn’t offer to share and shake alike, and in fact used some clever, aggressive engineering to sidestep Google’s Read More
User who log in to Facebook for the first time are offered the option of finding their friends on the world’s largest social network by importing their contacts from Google.
But when users sign up for Gmail, there is no recriprocal treatment. You can’t use Facebook to find Gmail contacts, even if their email is Read More
