Long-Awaited Facebook iPad App Close to Launch

It's been a year in the making

Facebook launched an iPhone app as soon as Apple’s App Store was open for business in July 2008. But so far, the social network hasn’t released a dedicated iPad app—yet.

The New York Times reports that Facebook is finally planning to release an iPad app in the coming weeks. The free app, which has been “carefully designed and optimized for the tablet,” has been in the works for almost a year, going through several design iterations, and is now in the final stages of testing, according to sources.

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