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Facebook Lite, an Android version of the Facebook experience for lightweight devices and slower networks, will now launch in a gaggle of new countries. Users in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, ...

Facebook Lite is now available in a number of developed countries, including the U.S. The app was first launched in 2015 in less developed markets, and is designed to work on slower wireless networks.

Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook is launching a ...

The Lite version of the Facebook app is designed for people with budget Android phones stuck on slower 2G networks found in developing markets. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...

Facebook today revealed it was bringing the feature no one really asked for, Facebook Stories, to its lightweight version, Facebook Lite (FB Lite). FB Lite is actually a remarkably useful tweak to ...

Facebook's investment in the developing world is paying off. More than 200 million people now use FB Lite every month, the company announced Wednesday. That's up from 100 million last March. Facebook ...