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Friendster relocates to Australia

6 points| nreece | 17 years ago |theage.com.au | reply

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[+] astrec|17 years ago|reply
This is a line I'm hearing more and more lately:

Kimber said he would "love to conquer Australia one day" but for now the focus was on Asia due to its significant growth prospects.

"The US is largely saturated, Europe is becoming saturated," he said.

"The next billion users on the internet are going to come from Asia, they're not going to come from Europe or America."

Our business has had an office in China for about a year, and Bangkok and Manila for several years. Anyone else on HN expanding into SEA or China?

[+] Raphael|17 years ago|reply
Everyone knows you take Australia first, for the 2-army bonus. It's pretty hard to get Asia, so you might make your way towards Africa or North America.
[+] nickb|17 years ago|reply
Friendster has the biggest office in Manila, Philippines. If the execs are smart, they'll relocate to the same spot. Having all of your devs in Manila and execs somewhere else doesn't work well in practice.
[+] wenbert|17 years ago|reply
They should move everything here in Cebu.
[+] dotcoma|17 years ago|reply
well, but living in Sidney is a lot cooler than in Manila, ya know ;)
[+] bmunro|17 years ago|reply
The article didn't say anything about 'relocation'.

It only said that they Friendster's office is located in Sydney.