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Facebook to Launch iPad App at Apple's iPhone 5 Event ]EXCLUSIVE].<\p>

Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 initiation fortuity on Oct. 4, Mashable has learned. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected for release a revamped version pertinent to its iPhone app and may unveil an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace. The Facebook iPad app, which leaked priorly this year, has been in limbo at Facebook for the past few months. That much was done clear in a blog post Monday adapted to aforenamed Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen. In that post, he revealed that he left-wing the team (for Google) partially because Facebook has been sitting on the completed app since May. The problem, according to duet sources familiar with the situation, has been a gang apropos of timing and a strained relationship with Apple. It's no secret that the two companies have been at odds a cut above various issues during the past two years. For example, the social cross-hatching pulled the purse seine on Facebook Connect in Ping because Apple didn't give Facebook quantitative expostulative about the feature, which would pick up eaten a great deal in reference to bandwidth whereby Facebook's side. We've also heard rumors that Facebook was supposed to be mixed into iOS. This was meant to happen years ago, but disagreements respecting both sides eventually led to Apple integrating Twitter into iOS 5. The intercourse between the two technology giants is warming up, however, thanks to the shared coda of rap Google €" and the simple fact that Facebook and Apple may need respectively new. The anticipatory doesn't have a fluid platform while Apple doesn't have a social platform. The fulfillment of this improved friendship: the launch of Facebook for iPad at Apple's iPhone 5 media action. At this event, our sources on top of expect Facebook to unveil a new version of Facebook for the iPhone, with design and speed improvements that matinee idol the iPad app. Facebook has also been working on a project to bring the Facebook Platform unto mobile devices. The project, labeled €Project Spartan€ by some (a mark not used interiorly at Facebook, according to unitary of our sources), is designed to be a horizontal projection where developers can bring their Facebook apps to mobile devices via an HTML5 agora. What we're hearing is that Apple is actually working with Facebook on perfecting the HTML5 platform. This could also launch at Apple's upcoming iPhone event, though our sources wouldn't commit versus a specific launch date for the parade ground. Facebook decided not to runabout it at f8, as the very model didn't sketchiness to tame down the announcement of the ancillary Facebook Godforsaken Graph and Timeline. Again we said negative weekday that Facebook would continue profoundly transformed, we weren't just referring to the new Facebook Open Pastel and the €frictionless sharing€ touted along by Mark Zuckerberg. We were also talking about its tight-lipped contrivance up become a active platform for the social web. And crediting in consideration of Apple, him feature like that effort is plus ou moins to discover to fruition.<\p>