Mr. Weitzman had a ping-pong table installed in the company's new showroom, which opened late last month in Manhattan.

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The facility is equipped with three computers, a 60-inch flat-screen TV, a Ping-Pong table, crafts, books, magazines and a telescope.

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The ping-pong table at the back of the room adds to the mood of relaxed intensity that you get at many hi-tech companies.

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Enter through the bamboo courtyard and step into a room piled with Moroccan rugs, old records and other flea-market finds and grab a drink around the ping-pong table.

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The common area boasts a ping-pong table, he said.

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But on days when everyone is too swamped to gather around the company Ping-Pong table, team members will shout out their status updates from their desks, which are arranged in a circle.

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In the U.S., Asian-Americans dominate ping pong, having comprised the entire U.S. Olympic table-tennis team in 2008, a feat they appear poised to repeat this year.

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Links of London's charm collection celebrates specific Olympic sports such as table tennis and badminton, so there is a ping-pong paddle and a shuttlecock, alongside hearts and clovers, symbolizing the themes of luck and love.

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