The roles of the company’s top two leaders — Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer — remain unchanged. Last week, Jan Koum, a founder of WhatsApp and a Facebook board member, also said he was leaving the company. The group will be led by David Marcus, who had been overseeing Facebook Messenger, with the mandate of examining how Facebook can incorporate blockchain. During the last six months, three people who have had conversations with Zuckerberg said he wanted Facebook to aggressively pursue applications for blockchain across the company. In a Facebook post, Marcus wrote, “I’m setting up a small group to explore how to best leverage Blockchain across Facebook, starting from scratch.”Read more about:

Source: thestar May 09, 2018 17:15 UTC