Facebook is moving out to the Asian continent to open a new office, and the pitstop is Hyderabad, city of pearls.
Hyderabad, India’s city of pearls and one of India’s top IT hub, house many foreign firms including search-engine giant Google, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, and Oracle.
The Hyderabad office will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said on Monday.
Don Faul, director of global online operations, said in his blog on Facebook that 70% of users are now outside the U.S. and use the site in over 70 languages.
“By having multiple support centers in a variety of time zones, we can provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual support,” Faul said.
“In India alone, we’ve seen rapid growth and now have more than 8 million people there actively connecting on Facebook,” he adds.
Though the company did not release any details on the investment or hiring figures, it said the company is already recruiting for key position at Hyderabad and will be supplementing Facebook’s other centers in Palo Alto in California and Austin in Texas, along with the Dublin office in Ireland.
With the new office in Hyderabad, Facebook can expect to tap a lot of skilled workforce at a relatively cheap wage.
