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Facebook to open first Asia office in India's Hyderabad
Mar 15, 2010, 15:00 GMT
New Delhi - The social-networking website Facebook said Monday that it is opening an office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, its first operation in Asia.
The decision to open the Hyderabad office was taken amid a phenomenal increase in the number of Indian users, which touched 800,000 recently, Facebook said.
The Hyderabad office would support the growing number of users, advertisers and developers in India and around the world, a company news release said.
Currently, Facebook, started in 2004 in the United States, has 400 million users around the world.
Hyderabad would be Facebook's fourth support centre after Palo Alto, California; Dublin; and an upcoming centre in Austin, Texas.
'The Hyderabad office is expected to provide a round-the-clock multilingual support to its ever-growing user base,' the release said.
Don Faul, director of Facebook's global online operations, said the Hyderabad office would tap into the region's strong pool of talent who understand technology.
Hyderabad is one of India's leading information-technology hubs and hosts offices of Indian firms such as Satyam Computer Services Ltd and international companies like Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and IBM Corp.
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