Google has quietly opened a third office in China, highlighting its growing hardware and ad businesses in the country even as the US tech company’s signature search engine remains blocked there.
The new office is in Shenzhen, the former fishing village turned Asian Silicon Valley that borders Hong Kong and is home to Chinese tech giants including Tencent and Huawei.
Key services of several US companies are blocked in China but the groups continue to generate big business from the country. China is one of Facebook’s top four international money-spinning regions along with western Europe, Canada and Australia.
