Social networking company Facebook said on Monday that it is setting up an office in Hyderabad in southern India. The new office will have online sales and operations teams, said Don Faul, a director of global online operations at Facebook, in a posting on the official Facebook blog. 
 
 Facebook will start with a small initial team in Hyderabad, which will include e xperts on the Facebook product to help users with their questions, and specialists in online advertising to help advertisers, the company said in a statement issued separately on Monday. 
 
 The company said last week that it was setting up an office in Austin, Texas. Both the new offices will allow the company to better serve Facebook's more than 400 million users, besides advertisers and developers, Faul said. 
 
 By having support centers in a variety of time zones, Facebook can provide better around-the-clock, multilingual support, he added. 
 
 The company is seeing significant international expansion, with 70 percent of the people using Facebook outside the U.S., accessing the service in more than 70 languages. More than 8 million people use Facebook in India, Faul said. 
 
 The new operations centers in Austin and Hyderabad will supplement the company's support teams at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and in Dublin, Ireland. The Hyderabad office is Facebook's first in Asia. 
 
 In India, Facebook is ahead of Google's Orkut social networking site according to Web traffic monitoring service Alexa. 
 
 Zynga, a developer of games like FarmVille, for social networking sites including Facebook, recently set up a product development center in Bangalore. 
 
 Facebook does not, however, have plans to move parts of its engineering and product development from Palo Alto to India. "We have no plans to base product managers or engineers in Hyderabad at this time," the statement said. 

 As more and more people share and connect on Facebook, we are growing our operations and teams to support them around the world. Just last week, we announced plans to invest in a new Austin, Texas, office, and today in India we unveiled our intentions to open an office in Hyderabad. 
 
 
 
 Both of these offices will allow us to better serve the more than 400 million of you now using Facebook worldwide, as well as our growing number of advertisers and developers. We are now hiring people to join the online sales and operations teams that we're forming in these new locations. 
 
 
 
 By having multiple support centers in a variety of time zones, we can provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual support. 
 
 
 
 The new offices come at a significant time in our international growth. Seventy percent of the people using Facebook are outside the U.S. and are accessing the service from more than 70 languages. In India alone, we've seen rapid growth and now have more than 8 million people there actively connecting on Facebook with their friends, family, and other people they know, both within India and around the globe. 
 
 
 
 The new operations centers in Austin and Hyderabad will supplement our support teams in our Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters and office in Dublin, Ireland. We're proud to now call America's Lone Star State and India's City of Pearls home. 
 
 
 
 For job opportunities in either location, visit www.facebook.com/careers. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Don Faul, a director of global online operations at Facebook, is looking forward to brushing up on his cricket skills during his next trip to India.
– Facebook is bumping its number of support center to four with a new office in Hyderabad, India. The Indian office, the company's first in Asia, will supplement existing operations in Palo Alto, Calif., and Dublin, and a recently announced Austin, Texas office, and let the company provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual service to its international users, a Facebook exec said in a blog post. Facebook is expanding rapidly abroad, the exec noted, with 70% of its 400 million users—which include 8 million Indians—now coming from outside the US. The Facebook office in India will have online sales and operations teams to assist customers and advertisers but the company has no current plans to outsource its engineering and product development to India, PC World reports.