It joins the ranks of other Silicon Valley giants with strong Kendall Square presences: Google and Microsoft have large research and development centers in Kendall, and Twitter bought its way to a major presence with two recent acquisitions.

Even notoriously homebodyish Apple has shown signs of a Kendall presence.

Scott Kirsner notes that this will not be Facebook’s only local presence: A select group of Facebook engineers have been working out of WorkBar Boston, though that practice appears to have been on a very case-by-case basis.

Update: Two tipsters note some more traditional innovators with connections to the area. An Oracle employee emailed:

“Just fyi, Oracle has several hundred employees/engineers with the office in Kendall (ex ATG and ex Endeca folks are all together now at 1 Main)”.

Those Endeca folks had been shacked up in Kendall before the company’s 2011 acquisition by Oracle.

And Lessismore shares a timely history lesson in the comments:

“Cambridge has a long history with communications technology. When traditional books were in their heyday, Cambridge had the Riverside Press on Memorial Drive,” they wrote. “They published many famous books including Winston Churchill’s 6 volume history of World War II for which he won the Nobel Prize in literature.”

The presses keep rolling ...