Facebook to Locate International HQ in Dublin, Ireland
Mary Coughlin, Ireland’s Minister of Trade, announced this morning that Facebook will be establishing its “international headquarters” in Dublin, the Irish Times reports.
The Dublin headquarters will house Facebook’s international technical, sales, and operations units serving users across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. US Internet giants Google, Yahoo, and eBay have also chosen to locate offices in Dublin due to Ireland’s friendly stance toward companies looking to expand internationally.
“We looked at a number of different locations and ultimately decided that Dublin was the best pick for a couple of different reasons,” Don Faul, Facebook’s chief of online operations told the Irish Times . “One is that it has got a really strong, multi-lingual talent pool which will really help us grow and scale and ultimately get closer to our users, advertisers and developers in the region.
As Facebook expands in Europe, it is also building operations in Asia. Recently posted BD jobs in Hong Kong and Mumbai show that the company is increasing its efforts across the continent
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Oh c’mon, they picked that location due to the quality of the pubs! Let’s be honest! ;)
October 9th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Facebook must establish local HQ in country served local language. So Facebook have to establish its Japanese HQ or representative for customer support and sales operations.
May 5th, 2009 at 1:38 am
[...] office is Facebook’s first in the region. Last October, Facebook announced its European operations would be headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and the company has been posting sales positions in Sydney, Paris, London, Toronto, New York, and [...]
July 6th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Having forgotten my password, I applied through facebook login page to have it retrieved. I received an email asking me to reply in order to confirm my email address and then to wait to be reminded of my password.
I have now waited for several days and received nothing.
I realise that this is probably not the correct place in which to make this appeal, but I can’t find any other way of reaching facebook directly.
Please email my password to the above address so that I can continue to use this means of contacting people.
Many thanks,
Eileen Herlihy
August 8th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Facebook- Please delete this correspondence as the password problem is now solved. Thanks
August 12th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Hey Eileen, you realize this blog has nothing to do with facebook except writing about it? :-)