Facebook To Become A News Paper For Mobiles Soon

Bangalore: Facebook is secretly working on a project to become a newspaper for mobile devices.   The project internally called as Reader, will display content from Facebook users and publishers in a new UI tailored for mobile devices, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Facebook has been working on the project for more than a year now, and it resembles like Flipboard, an app that aggregates the stories from multiple sources and lets users to flip through the content. Though the news about ‘Reader’ is out, the social network giant did not official confirm it, and so its release date too is unclear at this juncture.

The ‘Reader’ will be Facebook’s attempt to get users to spend more time on its website and it will also show how the company, home to more than 1.1 billion users, is trying to reshape its identity.

Facebok recently launched ‘# tags’ in an attempt to increase its popularity with the users and earlier this year, Facebook unveiled a redesign of the news-feed portion of its main Web portal that features a more prominent display of content from news publishers. While unveiling the redesign, Zuckerberg told that he wanted Facebook to be "the best personalized newspaper in the world.” If we go by the recent trends the company is following, you might get a “Reader” soon on your Smartphone, and it may take on with the now popular Google Reader.