Facebook Launches its Hyderabad, India Office with a Sweet Mural Design Contest!

Facebook will celebrate the official opening of its brand new Hyderabad, India Office on September 30^th with a Mural Contest powered by Wildfire. The winning artist will receive a $2000 prize and have their work prominently featured in the new office, covering a big wall! The contest will be Facebook’s 9^th promotion powered by Wildfire.

The Mural Contest will create buzz for the new office and facilitate positive engagement with India’s quickly growing number of Facebook users. Participants will have the opportunity to share their vision of Facebook’s future in India and what impact it will have on the Indian community.


Optimally located in India’s technology hub, the Hyderabad office will be Facebook’s first in Asia and help further fuel the company’s already explosive growth in the region. Recently, Facebook surpassed Google’s ‘Orkut’ and is now the number one social network in the country with approximately 13.5 million users. With India’s population being 1.1 billion, the Palo Alto based social network expects the number of Indian Facebook users to continue to grow rapidly. The Mural Contest will further build on this momentum and help create a lasting relationship with Facebook and its users.

Indian artists can upload samples of their portfolio from September 30th to October 22^nd. Voting on the finalists will commence on November 1^st and end on November 14^th. For official rules and details click here.

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