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Facebook launched its FbStart initiative to help support startup app developers at F8 in May 2014

Facebook announced its FbStart Apps of the Year at the Rise conference in Hong Kong Monday.

The FbStart Apps of the Year recognize the most innovative startups in the social network’s FbStart initiative in terms of building native iOS or Android mobile applications.

Facebook launched its FbStart initiative to help support startup app developers at its F8 developers conference in May 2014.

Head of platform partnerships Konstantinos Papamiltiadis said in a blog post that 900 submissions were received from 87 countries, and they were evaluated by a panel of judges from ActionSprout, General Catalyst Partners and Spotify.

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