Zuckerberg Joins With Tech Companies to Boost Web Access
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Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is forming a group with other technology companies to expand access to the Internet for the 5 billion people who have yet to get online.
The new group, Internet.org, includes partnerships with mobile-device makers Samsung Electronics Co. and Nokia Oyj, and chipmaker Qualcomm Inc., Facebook said in a statement yesterday. About one-third of the world’s population, or 2.7 billion people, have access to the Internet, and the group will help those who can’t afford to connect, it said.