"TITAN" Email Service Facebook . Marc Zuckerberg's company, with over 500 million users, will present the project "Titan" , rumored to be related to e-mail service. So, will compete directly with the greats of the web.
social network Facebook may expand the functionality of its messaging service, which means that Zuckerberg's company will compete in the market for e-mail providers with the giants software such as Google (and its Gmail), Yahoo and Microsoft (and its Hotmail).
Rumors correo@Facebook.com release began circulating in February 2010, and since then the speculations say that this would be the goal of "Project Titan" of the company. In recent weeks, however, the rumors gained momentum following the Facebook advertising that publicized the project presentation, which will take place on Monday.
insinĂ³ Zuckerberg's company in his invitation to the press that the event will be announced developments about your inbox, according to the specialized website TechCrunch, which points directly to his inauguration as email provider.
current messaging system on Facebook is limited to users in the network and does not support basic features like attachments and forwards.
The world's largest social network would add another battlefront with Internet giant Google, who is confronted by the contact information. Both companies have started a small battle that began when the Mountain View company suspended the transfer of personal data from their social network pages, by not allowing the latter reciprocity. Google's decision also includes the inability of Facebook amount Gmail contacts.
Another indication that reinforced the rumors was the last purchase of the company, Drop.io, a file sharing service that allows real-time and could help in the future to improve the tool of e-mail network social.
With over 500 million users, Facebook is the largest network in the world. Now seek to compete directly with Gmail, which has 170 million email accounts.