GreyReview.com » Octazen Solutions http://www.greyreview.com the eastern journal of technology and business Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:49:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Facebook Acquired A Malaysian Startup http://www.greyreview.com/2010/02/20/facebook-acquired-a-malaysian-startup/ http://www.greyreview.com/2010/02/20/facebook-acquired-a-malaysian-startup/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:42:35 +0000 LIM YUNG HUI http://www.greyreview.com/?p=5434 Facebook has acquired Octazen Solutions, a Kuala Lumpur-based maker of Contacts Importer software, reported on GigaOM. Octazen’s software already in-use on Facebook and helps the social networking giant to “grow by making it easy for users to invite their contacts on other services,” such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and others. This ‘old’ PDF document explains a bit more on how the Contacts Importer works.

Octazen Solutions – Contacts Importer Web API

According to the article, Facebook said the acquisition as “talent acquisition”. Octazen’s two employees will join Facebook as engineers and remain in Malaysia (Octazen with an office in Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur), making them social network’s first Asia-based full-time employees of Facebook.

Screenshot of the announcement on Octazen Solution’s website:

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UPDATE: For more details, read Michael Arrington’s posting here.

Facebook Acquired A Malaysian Startup originally appeared on GreyReview.com on February 20, 2010.

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