Mark Zuckerberg as Keynote speaker at the Mobile World Congress, at this announcement was a full hall pre-programmed. Finally, the 29-year-old Facebook founder’s appearance just five days after the spectacular news that Facebook is taking over from its competitor, WhatsApp, for an incredible $ 19 billion.
Would Zuckerberg comment on the mega deal? Which topics would otherwise be on the agenda of the social media maker? We have accompanied his speech in the MWC Liveticker on connect.de. Here is a brief summary of the performance.
Of course the takeover of the WhatsApp-Messengers was directly addressed at the beginning. Moderator David Kirkpatrick, author of the book "The Facebook Effect", opened with questions about the purchase. Zuckerberg's clear statement: "WhatsApp is a great company and fits perfectly to Facebook.
In the Messenger with its millions of users world-wide Zuckerberg sees another step on the way to Internet.org. This was the perfect transition to the topic that the Facebook CEO should focus on in the further course of the keynote, which turned out to be an interview.
Internet.org is a partnership of Facebook with the mobile companies Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia, Opera, MediaTek and Qualcomm. Zuckerberg's goal is to make the basic functions of the Internet as free as possible. In conversation, he compared access to the Internet and his basic services with emergency telephone numbers, which are also freely accessible to everyone at any time.
Starting with services like Facebook, you can also provide Wikipedia, weather forecasts, news and other services free of charge. These free offers are intended to give users, who have so far no point in spending money on Internet access, an incentive to go online for the first time. By using the free portals, according to Zuckerberg, it would quickly determine why it is worth spending money on the web and its possibilities.
To provide the required infrastructure is already underway in some countries such as the Philippines. But there is still a very early stage and are looking for other partners.
One of the next projects within Internet.org is the Ericsson Innovation Lab, which was officially announced today. Developers can test their apps in simulated network environments from around the world.
On the NSA revelations of Edward Snowden and the related security concerns raised against the US and companies like Facebook, Zuckerberg said he does not see any reasons why this should affect Internet.org. The corruption of companies by the government is, however, not really gratifying: "Not awesome!", Zuckerberg said literally.
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