Facebook to start India Operations in Hyderabad – to recruit 500+ engineers

Facebook is all set for desi plunge…to open it operation in Hyderabad..the company is on hiring spree and targeting 500+ engineers initially for its Hyderabad operations. Just few months back, Zynga (maker of games FarmVille, Mafia Wars) – a social gaming company running on Facebook platform setup its operations in Bangalore . … It is expected, the company gets the same the enjoyable work culture (and with fat payouts) in its India operations also and get into the list of “dream companies” for the tech engineers in the country…

Facebook no longer Lite

Facebook has pulled off Facebook Lite, its lighter stripped-down version.
This version was launched seven months ago, in India and US. This was targetted for those who want to involve in basic social networking tools & quickly, and those who were troubled with a slow internet connection.
Facebook Lite provided the basic networking features like accepting [...]

Orkut outranks Facebook in India: comScore survey

Facebook might have overtaken Orkut globally in terms of the number of users, but Google’s social networking offering still remains the favorite in India, according to the England-based online traffic tracking firm comScore.

In its latest report on social networking activity in the Asia-Pacific region, comScore says the Google-owned Orkut is ranked as the top social [...]

Facebook to open office in Hyderabad, India

Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in Hyderabad – India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.  Facebook, which lets users connect and share information with friends online, has emerged as one of the Internet’s most popular [...]

facebook.com turned 6 – 70% of growth from outside US

Facebook.com turned 6 on 04-Mar-10.  The company claims to have reached 400 million users – with 200 million added just in the last one year.
Mark Zuckerberg on facebook’s 6th b’day:
Facebook began six years ago today as a product that my roommates and I built to help people around us connect easily, share information and [...]

Online Social Networks’ role in our Career growth

..The traditional approach to job search has changed. There are fewer jobs available; more competition for those jobs and more touch points for recruiters and jobseekers to interact. As such, jobseekers need to expand their reach by using these social networks to get on the radar of hiring managers and recruiters who are actively combing these sites for talents. It has been noted that LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with over 50 million members, and growing …

Twitter Storm and the companies: How Indian companies are standing up to the twitter storm

Twitter is the new buzz word in the internet world. Move out youtube,orkut,facebook here comes twitter. The microblogging website launched by Jack Dorsey who started this with the mere intention of staying connected with his friends by knowing what they are doing currently. Little would he have imagined that it will become such a sensation [...]

Yahoo India shuts down SpotM and working on Guru

Yahoo India launched SpotM, a social network for the Indian market around September 2008. The product was developed by the Yahoo Bangalore team and was in closed (invite only) beta stage till date. It was claimed, SpotM will showcase extensive features like Free SMS and others with an ultra modern look. I… dominated by Google’s Orkut and Facebook. After 1 year of beta (invite only) service, Yahoo India announced that SpotM will be shut down. As guessed, this new social network failed to woo indian social groups. Orkut and Facebook which are already dominating in India, continues to grow more facster than any new networks. Facebook which came to India few years later than Orkut, is growing faster than compared to others. …. Yahoo India has the potential and sure will come up again with a bang. Lets wait for formal announcements on Yahoo ‘Guru’ …