Over the past few months, my colleague MG Siegler has been piecing together the puzzle around Facebook's Project Spartan, which is the social network's secret plan to bring applications to the mobile web via HTML5. Today, we've learned that Facebook has made a key hire in the HTML5 space. We've confirmed that the social network has hired Teck Chia, who was the founder and CEO of OpenAppMkt.com, an app store for HTML5 mobile web apps.

Facebook didn't actually acquire OpenAppMkt, but just hired C [...]

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