Here are your end-of-the-week tech links.
Beyond messaging: Facebook plans to turn Messenger into a developer platform, reports TechCrunch. The company is expected to make the announcement at its f8 developers conference next week. Facebook said earlier this week that it will allow payments through its Messenger app.
Facebook suicide-prevention measure fiasco: San Mateo man who posted a hoax suicide threat was arrested and put in a psychiatric institution for nearly three days, according to the BBC.
Google built a new tablet as a tool in effort to fight Ebola.
Greatfire.org, which is used as a workaround to censorship in China, is targeted in huge denial-of-service attack. Meanwhile, the websites of Reuters, Bloomberg, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are currently inaccessible in China.
Uber drivers threatened by taxi drivers in Colombia.
First class of minority and female would-be board directors graduated from Marc Andreessen and Sheryl Sandberg s boot camp this month.
