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Facebook to set up international base in Dublin

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Online social networking site Facebook will set up its international operations center in Dublin, officials said on Thursday. "After exploring various locations throughout the region, we decided Ireland was the best place to establish our new headquarters," Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a statement. The Dublin center will provide a range of online technical sales and operations support services to Facebook users across Europe, the Middle East...

Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons

Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons and Greasemonkey, Google engineer Ojan Vafai said during a panel discussion on the future of Web browsers at Web 2.0 Expo in New York on Friday. "There's two different kinds of add-ons," Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of those in Google Chrome." Greasemonkey's founder, Aaron Boodman, actually works on the Googl...