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| Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with PM Modi during his India visit last year. (This picture was posted by Zuckerberg on his Facebook page) |
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be going by the base camp of the online networking titan Facebook in Silicon Valley's Menlo Park for a townhall Q&A, the organization's organizer Mark Zuckerberg reported on Sunday, as the Indian pioneer's system in the US came to fruition with an undeniable accentuation on business ties.
"I'm eager to report that Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will be going by Facebook HQ not long from now for a Townhall Q&A. I had the opportunity to visit Prime Minister Modi in India a year ago and it's an honor to have the opportunity to host him here at Facebook," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.
Modi is likewise anticipated that would visit Googleplex, the tech's grounds monster Google in Mountain View and the manufacturing plant floor of Tesla in Fremont, both in Silicon Valley. He is additionally anticipated that would address the scholarly and understudy group at Stanford University in Palo Alto, however that some piece of the project is yet to be concluded.
He may also have a separate event with a prominent Indian company with operations in the US in an occasion that will highlight Indian contribution to the American industry and job creation.
In his Facebook message, Zuckerberg said he and Prime Minister Modi will "discuss how communities can work together to address social and economic challenges" in the event slated for Sunday, September 27 and 9.30 am local time (Sunday night 10 pm IST). He invited Facebook users to send in questions on his page promising to get to as many as possible. He also said he would post the live video on his page and it will also be on Prime Minister Modi's page.
Launched only in 2004, Facebook has become one of the world's most influential companies with 1.18 billion active users (more one in seven people on the planet) as of last month. It went public in February 2012, becoming one of the fastest companies to reach a market cap of $ 250 billion. Although such valuations have been questioned by business traditionalists, the company announced a revenue of more than $12 billion in 2014, mostly from advertising.
The company is expanding so rapidly that on a recent visit to the Menlo Park campus, this correspondent noted the parking lot was overflowing, with free valet parking offered to both employees and visitors (there were also reserved parking spots for expectant mothers). Inside the sprawling campus, there were at least a dozen restaurants and cafes (for free for employees; only one was paid restaurant).
The campus also has facilities such as doctor's clinic and hair salon so as to minimize the time loss and give employees maximum time to meet the goals.
Inside one of the buildings, a giant touch screen showed 1.49 billion daily users during the month of August. Total Facebook online visitors from India on that particular day was 63 million, of whom 58 million were mobile visitors.
In his Facebook message, Zuckerberg said he and Prime Minister Modi will "discuss how communities can work together to address social and economic challenges" in the event slated for Sunday, September 27 and 9.30 am local time (Sunday night 10 pm IST). He invited Facebook users to send in questions on his page promising to get to as many as possible. He also said he would post the live video on his page and it will also be on Prime Minister Modi's page.
Launched only in 2004, Facebook has become one of the world's most influential companies with 1.18 billion active users (more one in seven people on the planet) as of last month. It went public in February 2012, becoming one of the fastest companies to reach a market cap of $ 250 billion. Although such valuations have been questioned by business traditionalists, the company announced a revenue of more than $12 billion in 2014, mostly from advertising.
The company is expanding so rapidly that on a recent visit to the Menlo Park campus, this correspondent noted the parking lot was overflowing, with free valet parking offered to both employees and visitors (there were also reserved parking spots for expectant mothers). Inside the sprawling campus, there were at least a dozen restaurants and cafes (for free for employees; only one was paid restaurant).
The campus also has facilities such as doctor's clinic and hair salon so as to minimize the time loss and give employees maximum time to meet the goals.
Inside one of the buildings, a giant touch screen showed 1.49 billion daily users during the month of August. Total Facebook online visitors from India on that particular day was 63 million, of whom 58 million were mobile visitors.
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