It's a homecoming for Facebook — at least partially— and the social media giant's new neighbors are expecting the company to do more than just occupy space.
The social network, founded at Harvard by Mark Zuckerberg and others, announced yesterday it had opened an engineering office in Cambridge, which will be led by Ryan Mack, a Facebook engineer. Last night, Facebook jumped feet first into the local tech scene, hosting an infrastructure tech talk for entrepreneurs in Somerville.
"We're already seeing Facebook chart a course to become a valued member of the local tech community," said Cambridge Innovation Center managing director Geoff Mamlet. Facebook Boston is located in the same building as the innovation center.
Mack said the decision to come back to Boston and Cambridge was an easy one. "The tech community here is world-class," he said.
The engineering team will focus on networking, storage and security and while it will be small, Mack said they are hiring.
"This announcement reinforces our state's standing as a place where innovators and technology companies want to be," said House Speaker Robert DeLeo, who sent a letter to Zuckerberg last year asking him to bring Facebook back to the Boston area.
Mamlet said some companies could benefit from Facebook's decision to open an office here.
"Companies are much more likely to perform an acquisition in a market where they have a presence," he said.
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