Facebook samples China's potential with sneaky app
But analysts doubt that the US tech giant will fully enter the Chinese market any time soon
Shanghai
FACEBOOK'S sneaky launch of a photo-sharing app in China, where its social network is banned, gives it a small taste of the massive market's potential, but it may have to settle for just that for now.
The US tech giant acknowledged last week that it was behind the Colorful Balloons application, which is similar to its Moments app but omits any mention of Facebook's brand name.
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