Facebook to open office in Israel

For a company that is so embedded in the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world, it’s hard to imagine that a country so prominent as Israel could have been missed, but they’re correcting that issue now.

Facebook says it is acquiring an Israeli mobile technology startup and opening its first office in Israel.

Facebook said in a statement Monday that Israeli mobile utility application developer Onavo would help the social media giant create better mobile products and help connect more people around the world to the Internet.