Well that didn’t take long. Just over a month ago when Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook, “vacationed” in China there was much speculation about whether he had business motives too.
Now the world’s largest social network has announced it is opening a sales office in Hong Kong. The territory is a big internet market all of its own, and while China’s censors make it hard to access Facebook on the mainland, being in Hong Kong gives the company ready access to the 1bn-strong market if that ever changes.
In a statement on Tuesday, Facebook announced that it will open an ad sales office for support and sales in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Blake Chandlee,VP & Commercial Director, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Emerging Markets for Facebook said.
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