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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.

China's high-speed rail plans get more ambitious by the day.  Not satisfied with having the world's most advanced and extensive rail line in the world, China is now planning to connect its rail system to 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe where it will join the European rail network.

The JooJoo, a Web-browsing tablet device that is the subject of a high-profile Silicon Valley legal dispute, appears on track to reach early buyers at the end of February.

The flat touch-screen computer was known until December as the CrunchPad, after the technology blog TechCrunch. It was born from a post by the blog's well-connected and outspoken founder, Michael Arrington, that called for collaborators on a "dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen Web tablet."

Abigail Ticker in Smithsonian Magazine:

Edward B. Rackley

by Edward B. Rackley

Can a concept with nothing new about it - doing unto others as you would have them do to you - be shareworthy?  Can we make the pursuit of understanding “the other” and acting with that knowledge an idea that spreads from person to person?  We know social media is amazing for brief, instant flares of information, but what role can it play in something as fundam

Can a concept with nothing new about it - doing unto others as you would have them do to you - be shareworthy?  Can we make the pursuit of understanding “the other” and acting with that knowledge an idea that spreads from person to person?  We know social media is amazing for brief, instant flares of information, but what role can it play in something as fundam

Samsung Electronics is joining the smartphone app-store party. The Seoul, Korea-based company will open its Samsung Application Store in Italy, the United Kingdom, and France on Sept. 14.

Since February, the company has been testing a beta version of the online store in Britain. Now Samsung's app store will be extended to more than 30 countries, including Spain and Germany, Reuters reported on Monday. Samsung plans to open the store with 300 apps, with more than 2,000 by the end of the year.