Facebook asks users for free translations of Web site's new international versions
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April 18, 2008
The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than US$15 billion (€9.5 billion) by many estimates, got a good deal on going global.
Its users around the world are translating Facebook's visible framework into nearly two dozen languages — for free — aiding the company's aggressive expansion to better serve the 60 percent of its 69 million users who live outside the United States.