Facebook opening operations office in India

Posted by Nitin on March 15th, 2010 in India | 3 Comments

MUMBAI, India — Social networking site Facebook is introducing an operations office in India, it will be the first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.

The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday. It will supplement Facebook’s other centers in Palo Alto, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Austin, Texas.
The move is part of a push to create support centers across time zone.
The number of Facebook users has speeded to over 400 million since it was founded in 2004.
Seventy percent of users are now outside the U.S. and use the site in over 70 languages, Don Faul, director of global online operations, said in his blog Monday.
“In India alone, we have more than 8 million people there actively connecting on Facebook,” he said.
The company didn’t say any thing about the investment to be made.