Social networking giant Facebook targeting the Asian and Russian markets to be conquered. Facebook faced stiff competition from mixi in Japan and Tencent QQ in China.
As reported by Financial Times, the founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is giving attention to China, Japan, North Korea and Russia.
"We focus on four countries where we are no major social networks," he told his audience in Cannes France.
"Now is the time for us to do a specific focus on specific countries."
Facebook faced stiff competition from social networking site that has long existed in Asian countries such as mixi in Japan and Tencent QQ in China. While Russia is dominated by Vkontakte.
Speaking at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, Zuckerberg does not mention specifically whether Facebook will make changes to comply with the type of market or will it make acquisitions.
Facebook has grown up with the number of members of the 500 million people nearly as much, and Zuckernberg expects that number could be doubled.
"I think if we succeed," he said. "We'll have a good chance to be a company that brings social networking to the level of one billion people"
Mobile networks in countries such as India became the major driving force for this purpose, and this company will soon release a new mobile service that rumors will be named 'Places "which has the ability to add location information data from its members.
"India is attractive because the use of Internet in this country is relatively small compared to the total population in that country," he said.
"We got our first harvest in this country, which interestingly has a larger mobile users compared to Internet usage. I think everyone knows that it's just a matter of time before there is more global. "
As reported by Financial Times, the founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is giving attention to China, Japan, North Korea and Russia.
"We focus on four countries where we are no major social networks," he told his audience in Cannes France.
"Now is the time for us to do a specific focus on specific countries."
Facebook faced stiff competition from social networking site that has long existed in Asian countries such as mixi in Japan and Tencent QQ in China. While Russia is dominated by Vkontakte.
Speaking at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, Zuckerberg does not mention specifically whether Facebook will make changes to comply with the type of market or will it make acquisitions.
Facebook has grown up with the number of members of the 500 million people nearly as much, and Zuckernberg expects that number could be doubled.
"I think if we succeed," he said. "We'll have a good chance to be a company that brings social networking to the level of one billion people"
Mobile networks in countries such as India became the major driving force for this purpose, and this company will soon release a new mobile service that rumors will be named 'Places "which has the ability to add location information data from its members.
"India is attractive because the use of Internet in this country is relatively small compared to the total population in that country," he said.
"We got our first harvest in this country, which interestingly has a larger mobile users compared to Internet usage. I think everyone knows that it's just a matter of time before there is more global. "
