Facebook opened yet another office, this time in Amsterdam.
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Facebook has introduced a feature to allow users to link their accounts with Japanese social network Mixi. This follows similar moves targeted at Google-owned Orkut and Hyves, a popular Dutch social network, which we reported yesterday.
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Facebook has won the battle of the social networking sites almost everywhere except Brazil and India where Google-owned Orkut is still a force to be reckoned with. But now Facebook has made a tactical move aimed at Orkut users in those two countries.
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Despite Facebook’s continued growth abroad, attracting over 450,000 new users a day, the site is facing some challenges in expanding in certain markets. Looking at our Facebook demographics tool, we’ve found a number of countries with decreasing activity on Facebook: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ireland, Kenya, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and a few others.
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