A few weeks ago we posted that Sheryl Sandberg, now the former Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, was leaving the company to become the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook.

Now, the Wall St. Journal reports that Ethan Beard, the former Director of Social Media at Google, has joined the Facebook team as director of business development.

From the article:

Other prominent ex-Googler’s now on Facebook’s payroll include Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Financial Officer Gideon Yu and Benjamin Ling, a top engineer once regarded as one of Google’s “golden boys.”

The momentum started to shift toward Facebook last year when former Googler Justin Rosenstein wrote a public email declaring that the social network was “the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago. That company where large numbers of stunningly brilliant people congregate and feed off each other’s genius.”

Source: WSJ

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