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Hyderabad To Be Asia’s First Facebook Office

March 16, 2010

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.

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Facebook To Open 200-Staff Austin Office

February 25, 2010

Facebook is lately on an expansion spree, with the latest expansion being Austin. Facebook is expected to open a 200-staff office in Austin, Texas.

Facebook also opened an office in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this week.

According to the San Jose Business Journal, Facebook Inc. is expected to create around 200 jobs and is said to be investing about $3.1 million for setting up the operations in Texas.

“Facebook continues to grow and Austin, with its deep talent pool, would allow us to hire the high-caliber employees we need to properly serve the people, advertisers and developers that rely on our service,” Facebook Chief Operationg officer Sheryl Sandberg said.

Thanks to Gov. Rick Perry’s deal of investing $1.4 million for the Austin office through the Texas Enterprise Fund and a $200,000 economic development incentive proposal from the City of Austin.

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