Google Expansion Plans For Southeast Asia

Google Targets Southeast Asia from the Wall Street Journal reports Google has plans to expand their operations in Southeast Asia. Google will be opening up a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which will be their first new office in the Asia region in four years. Google’s president, Japan and Asia-Pacific operations, Daniel Alegre said: […]

Google's Daniel AlegreGoogle Targets Southeast Asia from the Wall Street Journal reports Google has plans to expand their operations in Southeast Asia.

Google will be opening up a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which will be their first new office in the Asia region in four years. Google’s president, Japan and Asia-Pacific operations, Daniel Alegre said:

We’re seeing a tremendous amount of growth in Southeast Asia. Malaysia has very high mobile penetration … and most of the Internet users that are coming online will probably start to interact with the Internet through mobile phones rather than PCs.

The mobile cell phone usage in Malaysia is tremendous and Google will be focusing a lot of their efforts on mobile strategies in the region.

We know Google has tremendous hiring plans this year, and I don’t doubt many of those hires will happen outside of the U.S.

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