Facebook to launch own music platform

Facebook announced its own music platform in September

The social network Facebook announced the launch of its own music service at its next developer conference, the September 22, as reported on CNBC Wednesday.

"The plan of the social network Facebook is launching its long-rumored music service developer conference on 22 September, "said Jon Fortt journalist speaking at the program Fast Money Halftime Report.

The developer conference will be announced the new company's plans Fortt, citing a source with knowledge of the decision, adding that it seems "likely" that the company will be hosting the music, but to be associated with other companies.

The Facebook developer conference will take place in San Francisco (California, USA). In the event, called f8, for which tickets are already on sale, will be announced the company's plans for your platform.

In past years this event has been marked by announcing some new developments that have boosted the use of social network.

At the previous conference, held in April 2010, the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the button "Like" ("like"), now commonly used on websites, allowing you to observe the tastes of other users .

Also released the tool "Opran Graph", which collects information about websites that the user has visited recently and shows both in his Facebook profile as other websites.

At that time the social network had about 400 million users, a number that almost has doubled today.