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Facebook India has grown from 8 million users to 50 million users in the country as the social networking site has turned out to be an effective communication tool for users on the move.

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Apple's revenue for China saw robust growth in its fiscal third quarter, as iPhone sales continued to boom, even though the company delayed the launch of its new iPad in mainland China. 

Facebook India has grown from 8 million users to 50 million users in the country as the social networking site has turned out to be an effective communication tool for users on the move.

Social networking major Facebook has decided to scale up operations of its Indian arm, a strategically located operations centre in the city.

Facebook India has grown from 8 million users to 50 million users in the country as the social networking site has turned out to be an effective communication tool for users on the move. This is evident from the significant increase in the number of mobile phone owners who constitute the major chunk of Facebook’s users.

“We are scaling up operations in India, through our centre in Hyderabad. But being an operations centre, the growth will not be like services’ companies,” Facebook India director-online operations Kirthiga Reddy said. Facebook, according to her, had no night shifts in any of its centres.

“The work in these centres is like relay race. Each team should handle the baton and we are able to deliver 24X7 support this way,” she said. Ms. Kirthiga said Facebook had a healthy mix of men and women employees and this diversity was reflected at different levels of the organisation. The right environment provided in the office had ensured the right mix.

“Thinking high about their careers is possible in Facebook,” she said. Gender specific differentiation was not the only reason behind lesser number of women in top corporate jobs. “Women tend to underestimate themselves. Studies have proven that only a handful of women are prepared to leave their jobs when they are offered another exciting opportunity,” she said.

A majority of them are hesitant to take new assignment in spite of the prospects and excitement it offers. Failure to negotiate effectively over their prospects was another area that needs to be addressed. “They (the corporates) are willing to pay if you negotiate.

While men overestimate their performance, women often underestimate the amount of work, their contribution, they do for the organisation,” she said. Less than five per cent of women are succeeding in reaching higher positions as they are averse to think about choices. As a result, the number parity witnessed at entry level jobs could not be seen at the higher levels where the number of women becomes slimmer.

Apple's revenue for China saw robust growth in its fiscal third quarter, as iPhone sales continued to boom, even though the company delayed the launch of its new iPad in mainland China.

For the quarter ended June 30, revenue for "Greater China", which includes the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, reached US$5.7 billion, said Apple's CEO Tim Cook during a Tuesday earnings call. This was a 48 percent increase over the same quarter last year.

The company's revenue for the quarter was however down by 28 percent from the previous quarter, when Apple's Greater China revenue reached $7.9 billion. Revenue in the previous quarter was boosted by the launch of the iPhone 4S in January, first through carrier China Unicom, and then China Telecom in March.

Apple's fiscal third quarter also proceeded without the launch of its new iPad in mainland China, with sales of the device having started less than a week ago or four months after they began in the U.S. The company recently resolved a trademark dispute over the iPad name with a local Chinese company, which had wanted to get the tablet banned from being sold in the country.

Apple's iPhone sales, however, continue to grow "at incredible rates" in mainland China, increasing in the quarter by more than 100 percent year-on-year, Cook said. Revenue in the country was unaffected by China's slowing economy, he added.

"We remain really confident about our plans and are very excited about our opportunity in China," Cook said.

Apple has previously said China has become the company's second largest market after the U.S. Reflecting the country's growing importance, Apple announced several China-specific additions to its products in June, including Mandarin language support for Siri, and allowing new versions of its operating systems to easily connect with popular social networking and Internet services in the country.

Previous Apple product launches in the country have created massive lines outside company stores. But for last week's new iPad launch, Apple used instead a new online reservation system to avoid the skirmishes that have occurred at previous launches. New iPad sales in the country, however, could lag behind the sales of the iPad 2, given the late launch, according to analysts.