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A streamlined Facebook for the developing world

Facebook has been working for over two years on a project that is vital to expanding its base of 1.1 billion users: getting the social network onto the billions of cheap, simple “feature phones” that are still the norm in developing countries like India and Brazil. Vindu Goel reports.

Google’s new buyout will put traffic buzz on maps

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