Facebook Inc. has invited the news media to report on a mysterious event at its headquarters today, and that has sparked a surge of rumors about the social networking company’s plans.
Speculation has ranged from a new Frank Gehry-designed engineering building to plans for a Facebook-branded smartphone.
While Facebook isn’t commenting, several analysts who follow the company say it’s more likely Facebook will unveil a new consumer-oriented mobile service – perhaps a search engine that would combine friends’ suggestions and other information, which would be a major challenge to Facebook’s much larger rival, Google Inc.
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