- MUMBAI: Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users The company said Monday the office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams.
- It will supplement Facebook's other centers in Palo Alto, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Austin, Texas.
The company said the move is part of a push to create support centers across time zones, with round-the-clock, multi-lingual support.
Facebook has seen its number of users rocket to over 400 million since it was founded in 2004. It has about 8 million users in India.