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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to expand in China.

20 May,2011 08:15 pm

Founded in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 by the now 27-year-old Zuckerberg, Facebook threatens Internet companies like Google and Yahoo as it becomes a popular online destination for Web surfers. Zuckerberg plans a second visit to China. Facebook plans to connect people around the globe and it is not possible without connecting them to China. China, the worlds largest Internet market by users, represents an attractive frontier for Facebook, which is blocked there. Zuckerberg visited China in December and met with the heads of Chinese Internet companies including Baidu Inc, Sina Corp and Alibaba Corp.China, where the government exercises tight control over online information, has proven hard to crack for Western Internet companies.