Facebook Opening Australian Headquarters in Sydney

Facebook is building a sales team to run its new Australian headquarters in Sydney, according to the Australian newspaper Australian IT.

The team is being headed by Paul Borrud, previously the company’s VP of US West Coast Sales. Although Borrud didn’t share information on the size or composition of his team (Australia IT says Facebook is looking to hire a staff of 10 for now), he did comment on plans to generate advertising revenue from Australian agencies and advertisers via engagement ads (to the right of the Home page) and performance ads (to the right of user profiles).

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