Facebook will hold an Android-focused mobile event at its Menlo Park campus, according to invitations sent out to reporters on Thursday. The invitation itself is light on detail, stating only “come see our new home on Android” in the body text. The event will be held the morning of April 4, a Thursday. Facebook has been exploring what it may be able to accomplish around Android for some time now, doing much of the work that would be needed to create its own phone (namely Project Buffy, which we’ve reported on for some time). For years the company has focused its mobile efforts around the iPhone (for the present) and HTML5 (for the future) — however, it began a major Android push several months ago. With good reason. The Android OS has massive reach around the world, penetrating deep in emerging international markets in which, unlike the United States, Facebook isn’t the dominant social network.
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