Mark Zuckerberg to visit India
Posted on: 02/Oct/2014 9:43:00 AM
India will see the visit of the Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg this month. He is likely to meet the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is an avid user of Facebook.
Mr Zuckerberg will be the second high-profile executive of Facebook to reach India next to Sheryl Sandberg. This visit will bet o address internet.org summit on two days: 9th and 10th of October.
Facebook made an announcement about the launch of internet.org during last year. The giant also got into partnership with companies including Ericsson, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek. The project aims at making over 5 billion non-users of internet to start using the web.
Mr Zuckerberg will deliberate the possibilities of the Indian government to get into collaboration with internet.org. The founder of Facebook who is one of the youngest billionaires in the world is also likely to meet other ministers too.
With this visit of Mr. Zuckerberg to India, it will be the third visit by high-profile US based corporation CEOs to the country.
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