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Facebook Progress Report, Goals, and China Activities at SVIEF Annual Conference

Background: The Silicon Valley Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) is an international conference designed to foster innovation and promote business partnerships between the U.S. and China. The SVIEF third annual conference -held on Saturday, November 2, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA- brought engineers, politicians, business leaders and startup entrepreneurs together to foster innovation and promote business partnerships between the two countries. Famous U.S. speakers included Al Gore and Steve Wozniak, Congressman Mike Honda and Congresswoman Judy Chu, among others. We focus this article on the keynote speech by Vaughan Smith, PhD EE, Facebook’s VP of Corporate Development and Mobile Partnerships. The reason is that if Facebook is to significantly expand its mobile user base, it must enter the world’s largest mobile market- China! Mr. Smith talked up a storm about the tremendous potential Facebook has in China, which is home to more than 600 million Internet users. However, he did not once mention that the company is banned there. Not only are there no Facebook members in China, but visitors traveling to China cannot access Facebook there. China’s government blocked Facebook in 2009 following riots in Xinjiang and it is still blocked, despite a rumor from the South China Morning […]

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