BUSINESS WEEK -- June 16 -- Facebook is now pushing hard to win over
Indians by adding Hindi and five other local languages. That takes the
number of languages officially supported by Facebook to 57, with
several dozen more in the works. The company hopes the six new Indian
languages (Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu) will
help close the gap between it and Orkut. However, most Indians who use
social networks are urban educated youth, for whom English is almost a
native tongue. FULL ARTICLE @ BUSINESS WEEK
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