They've made standalone initiatives in their global expansion with products that reach hundreds of millions of users or offer unique value propositions.
[Check out our profile of Facebook's standalone app initiative: "Facebook's New 'Creative Labs' Lets The 6,000-Employee Giant Move Fast Like A Startup"].
Built as part of Facebook's new "Creative Labs" standalone app initiative, Paper lets you choose different content "Sections" to add to a sort of digital newspaper.
Or maybe Facebook will release a full-fledged read-it-later app through the same Creative Labs standalone apps initiative that spawned Paper.
It is demonstrated that at technical and bureaucratic level, the Government of Tanzania would have preferred a systems approach to health sector challenges and not a standalone P4P initiative.
The company already made a few VR-related announcements yesterday, but we expect to hear quite a bit more today — especially around its new standalone VR headset initiative, which only got a passing mention in yesterday's event.
Remember, two years after we won in Arizona, standalone public financing initiatives were beaten badly in Missouri and Oregon.
The app will continue development as part of Facebook's Creative Labs initiative for building standalone apps.
Luckily for Facebook, Paper is a standalone app from its Creative Labs initiative.
The firm will invest $25,000 to $250,000 into startups that tie their financial performance to social and environmental impact, rather than treating do-good initiatives as a standalone, philanthropic arm or side project.
The OSP is a "broad industry initiative dedicated to enabling standalone applications and full web browsing across televisions, desktops and mobile devices taking advantage of Adobe Flash Platform capabilities".
