Facebook, the multi-billion dollar leading social networking site to date, launches its first Asian operations office in India, to better facilitate its continuous increase in users. There are over 400 million Facebook users and 100 million Facebook Mobile users and these figures are growing fast.
According to Facebook, the operations office is located in Hyderabad, and will have teams in charge of advertising and developer support. The office will work in conjunction with their other offices in Palo Alto, California; Austin, Texas; and Dublin, Ireland.
Situating their latest centre in India, and following the sun, Facebook aims to establish support centres in different time zones, with 24-hour support and available in different languages.
Don Faul, global online operations director says, “We expect our new office in Hyderabad to tap into the region’s strong pool of talented people who understand operations and technology, and help us more effectively serve the needs of our users, advertisers and developers around the world.”
Since its inception in 2004, the number of Facebook users has rapidly and steadily climbed to over 400 million worldwide. It already has an estimated 8 million users in India.
