The popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India. Facebook comes on top for a long list of international companies looking for a skilled workforce to support services at relatively low cost. Facebook today announced the opening of its first office in India, which aims to expand its business’ of social networking. The office will be ‘opened in cities’ of Hyderabad, along the lines of other centers operating in the group. “In India – says the director of global online operations Don Faul – we have already ‘linked to more than 8 million active Facebook.” 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States and used to connect over 70 different languages.
The headquarters in Hyderabad, southern India, will provide support for users, advertisers and programmers both in India and across the world, the company said in a statement today.
Hyderabad is already home to other foreign companies such as Google and Microsoft, whose employees are Indians who are working either programming or services to customers, earn lower wages than in developed nations like the United States.
Facebook has become one of the most popular Web addresses, challenging giants like Yahoo and Google, and now numbers over 400 million users, in addition to providing extensive investment by Microsoft and Digital Sky Technologies of Russian society.
The head of Facebook in Hyderabad will man forte to work in Palo Alto, California (USA), and Dublin, as well as the more recent Austin, Texas (USA).
“We have multiple support centers in a variety of time zones, we can provide better support for multilingual and second different time,” said Faul.