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Updated: 11:12 a.m. Saturday, July 2, 2011 | Posted: 4:55 p.m. Friday, July 1, 2011

Reports: Facebook-Skype Chat Product Designed By Seattle Team To Be Unveiled Next Week



SEATTLE —

Facebook will unveil a new video chat product, developed by Facebook's Seattle team, in partnership with Skype sometime next week, TechCrunch reports.

"The product has been built on Skype and will include a desktop component," TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington reported, citing a source with knowledge of the Facebook-Skype partnership. "It’s not clear to me whether that means it will just work if a user has Skype already installed on the computer, or if additional software will need to be downloaded even if the user already uses Skype. But it’s clear that there’s very deep integration between the products, and from the user’s perspective, the product will be an in browser experience."

The report was confirmed by Mashable.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in Seattle on Wendesday that the company planned to "launch something awesome" next week.

Information from seattlepi.com

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