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Facebook’s New Service Indicates a Kickstarter Rival

Facebook was announced a new service that audience funding for non-profit campaign through the official blog. The new service allows to promote and provide opportunities for fundraising through the purposes of the campaign for people and foundations.

Yusuf Demir
Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter
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Facebook’s New Service Indicates a Kickstarter Rival

Facebook was announced a new service that audience funding for non-profit campaign through the official blog.The new service allows to promote and provide opportunities for fundraising through the purposes of the campaign for people and foundations.

Facebook has started to work on this project two years ago and still working in this manner ’’ Donate’’ button which has been prepared for the donations and after a few months ‘’Order’’ button for e-commerce companies in a similar manner.

Facebook underlines that the new service could be used just for the non-profit campaigns.On the other hand Facebook may take its position as a competitor to Kickstarter seems extremely possible in the following days.

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Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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