Facebook, expanding in Asia, opens first office in Thailand

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc opened its first office in Thailand Thursday as the social network company expanded its footprint in Asia, its fastest-growing region. More than 34 million people in Thailand log into Facebook's 1.5-billion user network each month, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote on her Facebook page

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Facebook’s new ad service to charge only after full-scroll

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it would launch a service that will let advertisers pay for ads only when they are scrolled through from top to bottom on its news feed. The new service, called “100 percent in-view impressions”, will include text, photo, link and video ads, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The company said Moat would later extend its services to all other ads on news feed, including the service launched today, and also to ads on Facebook's photo-sharing app, Instagram.

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European business group slams China’s Internet controls

China's Internet curbs are isolating it from the world and having a “highly detrimental” impact on business, a European lobby said on Thursday, in an unusually strong statement by a foreign business chamber. With a population of 1.4 billion and 632 million people online, China offers a crucial market for multinational firms.

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