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Exec Completes Google-Facebook-YouTube Career Shift

Whatever else one might be able to say about him, Ben Ling does not burn bridges.  The proof: roughly 10 months after Ling quit Google in order to work for Facebook, he's getting put back on the search giant's payroll as an executive at YouTube.

Former Googler Leaving Facebook

Ben Ling was quoted after Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook's most recent press release.  He wrote the company's second-newest official blog entry.  And now the director of platform program management seems ready to work for someone else.

Friendster Gets New CEO, $20 Million In Funding

Friendster is a social network that almost never gets mentioned in the same breath as MySpace and Facebook.  Googlers living in Australia are also a little distance away from what's seen as the mainstream.  Add these two things together, though - and toss in $20 million - and you have an intriguing development.

MySpace Adds Five Execs

The economy has led us to expect reorganizations, layoffs, and outright firings, but Rupert Murdoch's MySpace is bucking the trend.  There's word this morning that five people are joining the company as vice presidents.

BBC Editor Going To Google's PR Department

Don't be surprised if Google starts to get a lot of positive press overseas.  A man who's something of a media expert - for four years, he served as editor of the BBC show Newsnight - will be joining the search giant as its head of communications and public affairs for the UK, Ireland, and Benelux regions.

Google Loses Head Of Sales And Finance To Glam

Google North America finds itself down a head of sales and finance this morning.  Michael Adair has moved away from the search giant and is joining Glam Media as vice president of corporate development and finance.

Google Earth Software Engineer Quits

Google's well-known specialties are search and advertising, and perhaps another couple products (YouTube, Blogger) also get more attention.  Google Earth is still one of the company's main attractions, though, and now a software engineer who's been attached to the project for five and a half years is quitting.

Rumor: Yahoo's Senior Director Of Engineering Gone

A wholly believable rumor has it that yet another important Yahoo employee has found his way to the door.  Adam Hyder, the company's senior director of engineering, is the man who may no longer bleed purple.

Bebo Scores Former Google Exec

AOL's Bebo seems to be growing a little stronger in terms of personnel; although it's not stealing directly from a certain search giant, the social network's newest hire acted as an exec at Dailymotion, and some time before that, Google.

Google Consolidating Denver And Dallas Offices

Google's recurring physical expansions may have gone a little too far.  There's word that the search giant now plans to shrink a bit by closing offices in Denver and Dallas.