India

Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.

The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday. It will supplement Facebook's other centers in Palo Alto, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Austin, Texas.

The move is part of a push to create support centers across time zones, with round-the-clock, multilingual support, the company said.

Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday.

Lenovo, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, jumped into the mobile Internet market in January with the unveiling of a smart phone and two Web-linked portable computers.

by Sara Firisen

C. M. Naim in Outlook India:

Namit Arora in Shunya's Notes:

Al menos 25 personas, entre las que se encuentran al menos cinco soldados, han muerto hoy en dos atentados suicidas en la ciudad paquistaní de Lahore, en la frontera nororiental con la India. Otras 50 personas han resultado heridas por las bombas en un vecindario militar cercano a la frontera.