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The Piano full zoneless induction hob is the world's most advanced and versatile. At De Dietrich, innovations are often taken to new levels offering uniqueness, beauty and versatility.

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PATCHAY.COM finds out this week that 3 of the Biggest Names in the Internet world have finally, officially landed on our shores!

Last month, Google opened its 2nd Southeast Asian office at the Petronas Twin Towers. For now, the Google Malaysia office will focus in business development and marketing of local content of its web services.

Next time, I just can't imagine people shouting at me: "Open up, quickly open up the Google Rojak web browser!"

Next, the world's largest online payment company PayPal will open its 2nd operations hub in Asia in the suburban Bandar Utama just outside of Kuala Lumpur.

The eBay company plans to hire over 300 ah longs employees for its new customer support centre.

Meanwhile, global phenomenal Facebook Inc has "secretly" began operations in suburban Damansara Perdana just next to Bandar Utama.

Perhaps, this comes after Facebook's acquisition of Octazen, a Malaysian-based company with 2 owners. The new Malaysian office has also been confirmed on Facebook press website.

Amongst global software companies that already have presence here include Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Symantec.

On a smaller scale, Apple Inc and McAfee also have offices in Kuala Lumpur.

Definitely I won't be surprise to see Skype, Twitter, Foursquare and Research In Motion next...

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Internet giant Facebook has acquired a Malaysian-based company

Social networking phenomenal Facebook Inc of Palo Alto, California acquired a relatively unknown Malaysian internet start-up, Octazen Solutions, for an undisclosed sum last week.

According to Facebook, the buyout was a "talent acquisition" which also roped in Octazen's two founding engineers to work with Facebook.

According to website InsideFacebook.Com, Octazen will remain based in Malaysia, making the two engineers the first Facebook employees based in Asia full time.

However, Facebook said, “This won’t become an office… It’s just a talent acquisition and they’ll be considered as remote workers since we’ve opted to let them remain in Malaysia.”

AllFacebook.com, a website that calls itself the unofficial Facebook resource, pointed out on its site last Saturday that Facebook has been working with Octazen for an unknown period of time.

Octazen makes software that helps Facebook grow its user base by encouraging existing members to invite their e-mail contacts.

The fact that Facebook has experienced explosive growth for the past few years was nailed down to Octazen's tool which founder Mark Zuckerberg had said was "the primary source of growth" for its social network.

Facebook has over 400 million users including 250 million added last year, but has been quiet on the acquisition front, preferring to acquire talent rather than products. Octazen is only the third ever acquisition by the company.

According to online websites, the number of Facebook users in Malaysia surpassed the 1 million mark in early March 2009.

The acquisition of Octazen comes as Facebook is fending off a challenge from Google with the launch of the latter’s Buzz social network.

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Reporting by The Malaysian Insider and Malaysian Mirror.